MATH 110 Spring 2010 Mathematics for Elementary School Teachers II
Course Information:
Mathematics for Elementary School Teachers II
Line#: 76607
Time: 10:00-10:50 MWF
Room: 245 JR Pearson
Instructor: Jila Niknejad (Ph.D.)
Office:
Phone:
Fax: (785) 864-5255
E-mail:
URL: http://www.math.ku.edu/~jnik/
Office Hour: W 11:00-12:00 and Thursday 12:15-1:15 at 521 Snow Hall or by appointment
Link to homework.
Prerequisite: MATH 109 and you must be enrolled in a lab section.
Textbook: Mathematics for Elementary Teachers: A Contemporary Approach, Musser, Burger, Peterson, Wiley and Sons, 8th edition, 2008.
Calculator (required): TI-84 series is recommended.
Tentative Course Topics:
1. Statistics (Chapter 10)
2. Probability (Chapter 11)
3. Geometric shapes (Chapter 12)
4. Measurement (Chapter 13)
5. Geometry Using Triangle Congruence and similarity (Chapter 14)
6. Geometry using coordinates (Chapter 15)
7 Geometry using Transformations (Chapter 16)
Homework will be collected on the due date at the beginning of class. No late homework is accepted under any circumstances. I will drop your two lowest HW/Quiz scores. This should cover any situations of illness or emergency. I encourage you to form study groups. Most people find it easier to learn new material in a group than on their own. You may work together on the homework problems but you must hand in your own work—no plagiarism. There will be 2 in-class exams and a comprehensive final. No make up exams will be given except under the most dire circumstances.
Grading and Test Dates:
Attendance:
You are expected to come to every class. Please come to class on time and do not leave before class is over. If you have a special circumstance let me know ahead of time. Also, please note that there will be some pop quizzes.
Grade Dispute: If a student wishes to discuss the exam grade, it must be done within two weeks following the date of the exam. Under some circumstances you may be asked to explain your complaint in writing.
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Students With Disabilities: The Office of Disability Resources (DR), 22 Strong Hall, 785-864-2620 (v/tty), coordinates accommodations and services for KU students with disabilities. If you have a disability for which you may request accommodation in KU classes and have not contacted Disability Resources, please do so as soon as possible. Please also contact the course coordinator privately in regard to this course. It is your responsibility to request accommodations in a timely manner well before needing them.
Religious Holidays: Any student in this course who plans to observe a religious holiday which conflicts in any way with the course schedule or requirements should contact the instructor at the beginning of the semester to discuss alternative accommodations.
Academic Misconduct:
According to University Senate Rules and Regulations, Section 6, Academic Misconduct is: "2.6.1 Academic misconduct by a student shall include, but not be limited to, disruption of classes; threatening an instructor or fellow student in an academic setting; giving or receiving of unauthorized aid on examinations or in the preparation of notebooks, themes, reports or other assignments; knowingly misrepresenting the source of any academic work; unauthorized changing of grades; unauthorized use of University approvals or forging of signatures; falsification of research results; plagiarizing of another's work; violation of regulations or ethical codes for the treatment of human and animal subjects; or otherwise acting dishonestly in research."
Homework Assignments, Working in Groups, Tutors: Students may discuss the homework problems in groups and/or work with a tutor, but it is the student's responsibility for doing his/her own work and turning in his/her own solutions.
Intellectual Property: Course materials prepared by the instructor, together with the content of all lectures and review sessions presented by the instructor are the property of the instructor. Video and audio recording of lectures and review sessions without the consent of the instructor is prohibited. Permission to make such recordings may be granted by the instructor on a case by case basis, on the condition that these recordings are used only as a study aid by the individual making the recording. Unless explicit permission is obtained from the instructor, recordings of lectures and review sessions may not be modified and must not be transfered or transmitted to any other person, whether or not that individual is enrolled in the course.
Everything on this syllabus is subject to change.
Last modified: Jan 14, 2010
HOMEWORK
Homework is due by 11:00 am on the due date. Please staple your assignments and fold them lengthwise with your name on the outside and inside.
Show all work and justify your answers. Unless the question is trivial, no credit will be given for answers only.
The homework may be a mix of problems from the textbook and other problems. You are required to turn in all the problems but a selected number of problems will be graded. Also, you must read the appropriate section in the text book.
HW1
10.1.A: 2,4,17,20,21,25( for part b of 25 use your calculator or a computer)
10.2.B : 3 click here for linear reg.
HW2
10.3.A: #8(Explain how you found Lower quartile, median and upper quartile and in part b, say something about some percentile that works better for one of the classes), #9, #17( Show how you found the scores), #18 (In part a find the z-score and explain briefly how you found the percentile).
10.3.B: #8(Hint: in part a, write each class scores in order then find the 5 point summary and in part b say something about what percent of the class which performed better is approximately above what percent of the other class), #9, #12 (Hint: Rewrite the data into a mid-point frequency table to have more familiar setting), #18( for part a, show how to find the z-score), #23
For Normal z-table, click here
For normal distribution percentile calculation, Click here
Due Friday Jan 22
Due Friday
Jan 29
HW3:
11.1.A : #4,5,15( write out the sample space and a set for the event.)
11.1.B: #3,4,11( write out the sample space and the event.)
Math competition: click here
HW4:
11.1.A: #17,20 11.1.B: #17,18,20,21
Go to the following web site and randomly roll two dice 100 times.
Record your result. For example, (2,4) 3 times (in a table). Then, Write your tally as a percentage.
For example, (2,4) happened 3% of the times. Compare the probability you got (which is called experimental probability )with the
probability that we learned in class(theoretical probability). Random experiment
Due
Friday
Feb. 5
Due
Friday
Feb. 12
HW5:
11.2.A: #5,6,13,14
11.2.B:#4 (For number 4 sketch the probability tree and add these parts
to it: a) what is the probability that we have to draw 3 balls before we stop?
b) What is the probability that we have to draw exactly 2 balls before we stop?
c)What is the probability that we have to draw more than one ball before we stop?)
rest of 11.2.B:#6 ( For 6 also, sketch a diagram and give some explanation for a student.) and #14(Hint:A phone prefix is the first 3 digits before the dash and after the area code.
HW 6:
11.3.A: #9,10,20,26,27,28
11.3.B: #1(a,b),3(a),13,28
11.4.A:#10
11.4.B:# 8,9
Due:
Friday
Feb. 19
Due:
Friday
March 5th
HW 7:
11.4.A: #12,18,20
11.4.B: #15,16,21,24
12.1.A: #13,15
HW 8:
12.2.A: #1, 2 ,11
12.2.B:#1, 2, 11
12.3.A:# 6,10,13,14
Due:
Friday
March 12
Due:
March 26
HW 9:
12.3.B: #5(a), 10,12,14(a),15,18
12.4.A: #2(c),3(b),4,21
12.4.B: #4,5(c),7(c),8(a)
HW 10:
12.5.A: #10,11(answer the parts related to figure i), 13(a),14(a),15(a),19(a),20
12.5.B:#4,10,13,14.b,15.a,16
For cross-section problems, you can use play-dough or computer programs to answer the questions.
Due:
April 2
Due:
April 9
No Hw due on April 16.
Hw 11:
13.1.B: # 4,5,6,12,14,20
13.2.B: #20d,23,27,38
13.3.B: #3,6,17
13.4.B: # 3,6b( On this one assume that the base is a rectangle.),8b,22
HW 12:
14.1.B:#4, 9, 11, 16
14.2.B:#2 a,4, 10, 16
Due:
April 23
extended to Monday 26
Due:
Friday
April 30
Extended to Monday
May 3