MTH 111 Math as a Human Pursuit Semester 081  (Fall 2008) Instructor: Karen E. Donnelly  · Her Homepage · Her Schedule · Course Syllabus (Word format)

Assignment Calendar

Final Project Guidelines and Schedule

Tentative Test Schedule

Test 1:  Thursday Sept 18th  Practice Test Questions

Test 2:  Tuesday October  14th      Practice Test Questions NOTE DATE CHANGE Partial Answer Key

Test 3:  Tuesay November 11th  Practice Test Questions Partial Answer Key

Test 4:  Take Home Due during Final Exam Week

Class Notes,  Power Point Slides, Worksheets

Chapter 2 Discussion Notes	Chapter 2 Power Point Slides
Chapter 9 Discussion Notes	Chapter 9 Power Point Slides
Chapter 8 Discussion Notes	Chapter 8 Power Point Slides
Chapter 6 Discussion Notes	Chapter 6 Power Point Slides
Chapter 5 Discussion Notes	Chapter 5 Power Point Slides
Chapter 11: Use Handouts For Fibonacci Numbers Fibonacci Problem Sheet Unit 11A:  Music	Chapter 11  Power Point Slides
Chapter 10: Unit 10C:  Fractals	Chapter 10  Power Point Slides

Useful Links for this Course

• Companion web site for class text
  
• Cut the Knot
• Shodor Foundation Web Site with Interactive Activities
• Mathematical Archives
• Geometry Center for
• The Math Forum Home Page Computation and Visualization o
• Connected Curriculum Project at Duke
• Top Twenty Calculus Web Sites
• PBS Teacher Source (includes math classroom activities)
• PRISM -- New Site for Middle School Science/Math activities linked to Ind Standards
• Merlot.org classroom activities for higher ed mathematics
• History of Mathematics
• Women Mathematicians-Chronological Index
• Chance Database:
• The Mathematics of the Fibonacci series
• The Fibonacci Numbers and the Golden section
• The Golden Mean
• Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics
• Quotes compiled by Mark Woodard
• The Pi Pages

Libraries and Large Reference Sites

• Library of Congress
• Links to all federal govt agencies and departments.
• Gateway and search for many federal govt sites
• The World Factbook 1994
• The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Mathematics

Government and Political Sites

• Federal govt statistics.
• Bureau of Labor Statistics
• National Center for Educational Statistics
• U.S. Government Printing Office
• National Transportation Safety Board
• Center for Disease Control and Prevention
• U.S. National Debt Clock
• World Population Clock
• Exit polls
• U.S. Census Bureau (and Census 2000)
• Population Reference Bureau

Newspapers and Media

• USA Today
• New York Times
• Washington Post
• Time-Warner (Time Magazines)
• National Public Radio
• CNN
• American Demographics Magazine
• Gallup Poll

Unit Conversion Links

• Unit Conversions Worksheet
• OANDA.com, The Currency Site
• BAC Report -- National Highway and Transportation Safety Association tells how to compute BAL
• Blood Alcohol Content Calculator - The Police Notebook
• BLOOD ALCOHOL LEVEL (BAL) -- Gives definition of BAL
• Online Conversion - Convert anything to anything else
• FareShare Conversion Tables for Food

Fractal Links

• PBS Nova Site on Hunting The Hidden Dimension
• Chaos in the Classroom Boston University
• More chaos
• Animation of Sierpinksi Triangle
• Java Applet for generating Koch Snowflake: http://www.shodor.org/master/fractal/software/Snowflake.html
• Java Applet for generating the Sierpinski Gasket:  http://www.shodor.org/master/fractal/software/Sierpinski.html
• The Fractal Microscope (Java Applet Interactive exploration of the Mandelbrot Set)
• Fractal Geometry of the Mandelbrot Set Part I
  
• Fractal Geometry of the Mandelbrot Set Part II
• Mandelbrot Set Explorer
• Mandelbrot-Julia Set Applet
• Mandelbrot and Julia Set Explorer

Music and Fractal Music Links

• Play a Piano : An interactive Musical Java Activity
• Explanation of Beats

Population Links

• Modeling Population Growth

Logic and Set Theory Links

• Venn Diagrams and Probability
•  From Professor McFarland's , U. of Wisconsin -- Whitewater Finite Mathematics Course on line notes:
• Venn Diagram Self-Test with active javascripted images
• PCs and Macs Venn Diagram
• County and Western Songs Venn Diagrams

Golden Ratio and Fibonacci Numbers Links

• The Mathematics of the Fibonacci series
• The Fibonacci Numbers and the Golden section
• The Golden Number