Math 111 - Tentative Schedule

  Lecture     Date     Section     Topic     Homework  
1 1/12 Reasoning   Inductive Reasoning      
2 1/14   Limits of Inductive Reasoning      
3 1/17   Deductive Reasoning: The Pythagorean Theorem      
4 1/19 Numbers   Division Algorithm and Modular Equivalence      
5 1/21   Tests for Divisibility     Modular arithmetic problems  
6 1/24   Check Digit Schemes      
7 1/26   Deductive Reasoning: Primes and Irrationals      
8 1/28   Ancient Methods for Writing Numbers      
9 1/31   Large Numbers & Scientific Notation     Scientific notation problems  
10 2/2   Logarithmic Scales      
11 2/4   Logarithmic Scales - con'd      
12 2/7 Growth   Percentage & Exponential Growth     Percentage growth problems  
13 2/9   Compound Interest      
14 2/11   Linear Growth      
15 2/14   Scaling Area and Volume      
16 2/16   Fibonnaci Sequence      
17 2/18   Midterm 1      
18 2/21 Voting   Preference Ballots and Plurality Method      
19 2/23   Borda Count     Voting theory problems  
20 2/25   Instant Run-Off Method      
21 2/28   Method of Pairwise Comparisons      
22 3/2 Apportionment   Apportionment Problems      
23 3/4   Hamilton's Method      
24 3/14   Alabama and Other Paradoxes      
25 3/16   Methods of Adams, Jefferson, and Webster      
26 3/18   Huntington-Hill Method      
27 3/21 Probability   Fundamental Counting Principle      
28 3/23   Permutations & Combinations      
29 3/25   Equiprobable Spaces      
30 3/28   Independent & Complimentary Events      
31 3/30   Weighted Averages & Expected Value      
32 4/1   Law of Large Numbers      
33 4/4   Geometric Probability      
34 4/6   Midterm 2      
35 4/8 Statistics   Collecting Data: Sampling      
36 4/11   Mean, Median, Mode (and Histograms)      
37 4/13   Normal Distributions & z-Values      
38 4/15   68-95-99.7 Rule      
39 4/18   (Un)Fair Coin Principle      
40 4/20   Statistical Inference      
41 4/22   Being a Critical Consumer of Statistics      
42 4/25   Review