Mathematics 5

Winter Term 2006

The World According to Mathematics

 

Dwight Lahr

 

Weekly Schedule: Week #3

 

Readings:

 

Lahr—  2.4 through 2.12.

Quiz1: Math problems—in class on Thursday January 19; through 2.6: 1-3.

Maple Worksheets “ISBN” and "Pythagorean Triples"— get them from the “Maple Stuff” page of the Math 5 website.

Mid-Term paper draft—due to Jane Huntington next Monday, January 23.

                             

                                               

 

Exercises:

 

Due Wednesday 1/18:

(No class Monday 1/16: MLK Day)

•Exercises 2.4: 1ac, 2abe, 3abe, 4ac

•Read 2.5

•Maple (get worksheets from Maple page): Try “ISBN” and "Pythagorean Triples" with u= 97 and v= 62. What is the resulting Pythagorean Triple?

 

Due Thursday 1/19: (meet in x-hour,

             12:00-12:50)

Math Quiz1

 

•Exercises 2.4: 5, 6, 7

•Exercises 2.6: 1-3

•Read 2.7

 

Due Friday 1/20:

•Exercises 2.6: 4, 5

•Read 2.7

•Exercises 2.8: 1bd, 2bc

•Read 2.9

 

Due Monday 1/23:

(also, mid-term paper draft)

•Exercises 2.10: 1-6

•Read 2.11

•Exercises 2.12: 1, 2, 3, 4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Friday discussion: 

 

Based on the mathematics we have been studying, we will discuss reasoning and logic.