Week 1 (Wedn Aug 19 - Friday Aug 28)
Syllabus
Course Activity 0.1
Informed Consent and Precalculus Concept Assessment (Mairead and Paula will visit your class with this)
Course Activity 0.2 Parts I and II
Course Activity 1.1A and 1.1B
Course Activity 1.1C (possibly?)
Assign Webassign Homework 1.1
Week 2 (Mon Aug 31 - Friday Sept 4)
Course Activity 1.1C (Finish it up)
Course Activity 1.2
Course Activity 1.3
Course Activity: Mathematica Intro
Hand out Stage 1 of Modeling Project (in the Thursday or Friday class regardless of whether we've reached the Mathematica Intro)
Assign Webassign Homework 1.2, 1.3
Week 3 (Tues Sept 8 - Friday Sept 11)
Finish up Course Activites from last week
Course Activity 1.4, 1.5
Course Activity 1.6 (Begin collecting data in some sections)
Assign Webassign Homework 1.4, 1.5, 1.6
Week 4 (Mon Sept 14 - Friday Sept 18)
Course Activity 1.6
Course Activity 3.1
Course Activity 3.1, 3.2 (get started if time)
Week 5 (Mon Sept 21 - Friday Sept 25)
Course Activity 3.1, 3.2
Course Activity 3.3A
Course Activity 3.3B (get started if time)
Assign Section 3.4 as reading and let them know there will be a reading quiz on this the next Mon/Tues/Wedn as suits your class.
Week 6 (Mon Sept 28 - Friday Oct 2)
Course Activity 3.3B
Section 3.4 (probably reading assignment, quiz and then discussion)
Review for Exam
Handout Project Stage 2
Week 7 (Mon Oct 5 - Tues Oct 6)
Exam 1
Week 8 (Mon Oct 12 - Fri Oct 16)
Course Activity 4.1,4.2
Course Activity 4.4A
Assign Webassign Homework 4.1, 4.2
Week 9 (Mon Oct 19 - Fri Oct 23)
Course Activity 4.4B
Project Work Day
Course Activity 4.4C (begin)
Collect Project Stage 2
Week 10 (Mon Oct 26 - Fri Oct 30)
Handout Project Stage 3
Course Activity 4.4C continued
Course Activity 5.1
Course Activity 5.1B (if time)
Assign Webassign Homework 5.1
Week 11 (Mon Nov 2 - Fri Nov 6)
Course Activity 5.1B (continued)
Course Activity 6.1
Project Work Day
Week 12 (Mon Nov 9 - Fri Nov 13)
Collect Project Stage 3 and Handout last two project stages (The periodic project stage is a bonus project stage and so does not need to be handed in unless students are doing it for bonus credit. The final project stage is a culmination of all the stages asking students to choose the best model from the previous stages.)
Course Activity 6.2
Course Activity 6.5
Hand out Exam Review Sheet.
Course Activity 6.5B Modeling Periodic Data
Week 13 (Mon Nov 16 - Fri Nov 20)
Project Work Day
Review Day
Exam 2 (on Friday) - we need to decide if this is cumulative or not
Thanksgiving Break
Week 14 (Mon Nov 30 - Fri Dec 4)
Project Work Day
Day for Precalculus Concept Assessment Post Test (Monday or Tuesday I think we decided)
Optional Oral Presentations (either through posters or other form)
Final Review Day
Final Exam Period (Mon Dec 7 - Fri Dec 11)
Remember that during the Final Exam Period we will split up our classes into two groups and have each group come to the final exam for one hour where they will work on a modeling problem and use Mathematica to check their model.
Final Exam Schedule (Fall 2009):
Final Grades Due: December 15