EMAT 4500
Connections in Secondary School Mathematics
Spring 2001

Instructor: Dr. Heide Wiegel
706 - 542 - 4749
Adehold, 105E
hwiegel@coe.uga.edu

      

Inchul Jung
706-542- 4569
Aderhold, 105J
ijung@coe.uga.edu

      

Lisa Sheehy
706-542-4573
Aderhold, 105
lsheehy@coe.uga.edu

Office Hours:

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Dr. Wiegel	Walk-in	after class & walk-in	Walk-in	after class & walk-in	Walk-in
Inchul Jung	Walk-in	Walk-in	Walk-in	Walk-in	Walk-in
Lisa Sheehy	Not Available	2:30 - 3:30	Study Session in Room 111/113 from 11am - Noon	2:30 - 3:30	Walk-in

Syllabus:

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Assignments:

#1. Function Review

assigned problems from the Cooney text

(due 1/10)

#2. Ant on a Wheel Project

Click here for the data collection directions

Click here for project details

(due 2/1)

#3. Textbook Series Project

Click here for the project details

Step Zero: (due 2/13)

Step One-A: (due 2/20)

Step One-B: (due )

Step Two: (due )

Step Three: (due~ varies)

#4. Rat Problem Write-up

Investigate the "Growth of Rat Populations" problem situation (handout)

Use the Standard POW Write-up (handout) as guidance for your write-up.

Your write-up: (due 2/8)

#5. Population growth Problem Write-up

Click here for Excel guidelines and Dr. Wiegel's response to your first drafts of this write-up.

Your revisions to the write-up: (due 2/26)

NEW!! (as of 3/13)

Click for Dr. Wiegel's spreadsheet presentation of this problem...

here to download the excel file (data and graphs)

here to view the html file of the graphs only

 

#6. The Logistic Function: Problem Write-up

(The Verhulst Model of Population Growth)

This write-up of the "Risky Encounter" Simulation should include:

1. The Problem Statement

2. Description of Simulation

3. Data Sheet (including graph)

4. Development of Recursive Formula

5. Spreadsheet with collected data and data generated by recursive formula... (be sure to also include one graph with both the collected and formula generated scatter plots)... remember the guidelines that Dr. Weigel has provided for excel :)

write-up: (due Thursday - 3/1)

#7. Combinatorics Homeworks

Click here for the assignment details

(due Friday - 3/30 by 5:00pm)

Click here to download an Excel file of Pascal's Triangle

Click here to view Pascal's Triangle on the web

#8. Extra Credit!!

Click here for the assignment details

(due 4/10)

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