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Math 310 - Elementary Mathematics II
Fall 2009 Assignments

From Wednesday, Nov. 18: Probability
- In-class: Activity #15: Geometric Probability (manual p. 99)
- Homework:
  - Read COMAP's Geometric Probability by Art Johnson.
  - Read p. 461 of our text.
  - p. 461: #22-25, TIMSS
  - HW #18 (manual p. 101): all
- QUIZ #8 will be Friday, covering basic probability similar to the items listed for Monday, Nov. 16.
From Monday, Nov. 16: Probability
- In-class: Activity #14: Basic Probability (manual pp. 97-98)
- Homework:
  - Read pp. mid 435-box on p. 437, bottom 439-bottom 441.
  - p. 443: #1-9, 11-13, 14a-e, 16, 18, 19, 23-25, 27, 30, both TIMSS
From Friday, Nov. 13: Probability
- In-class: Activity #13: Experimental Probability (manual p. 95)
- Homework:
  - Read pp. 432-436.
From Wednesday, Nov. 11: Statistics
- No new assignments
- Quiz #7 was conducted today.
From Monday, Nov. 9: Statistics
- No in-class items
- Homework:
  - Read pp. 532- top 537 and p. 538.
  - p. 545: #3-10, 15-17, 23, 26, 28, 29a-c, 30 (no outliers)
  - p. 566: #14 (no outliers)
From Friday, Nov. 6: Statistics
- In-class Activity #12 (manual p. 89): Exploring Mean, Median, and Mode
- Homework:
  - Read pp. 524-bottom 531.
  - p. 545: #1
  - HW #16 (manual p. 91): all
From Wednesday, Nov. 4: Exam #2
From Monday, Nov. 2: Statistics
- In-class items:
  - Summary #5: Types of Statistical Graphs (manual p. 87)
  - "Fair Use" pp. 16 and 17
- Homework:
  - Read pp. 502-516.
  - p. 517: #1, 2, 4, 7bc, 8, 10, 13, 14, 17, 22, 24, 36, both NAEP problems

Exam #2 Material

From Friday, Oct. 30: Decimals
- No in-class items
- Homework:
  - Read pp. bottom 410-top 414.
  - p. 416: #8, 9, 16, 17, 19, 32
  - HW #15 (manual p. 85): #2-5
From Wednesday, Oct. 28: Decimals
- In-class: Activity #10 (manual p. 81): Percent Increase/Decrease
- Homework:
  - Read p. 416.
  - p. 416: #11-15
  - HW #15 (manual p. 85): #1, 3c, 4c
- QUIZ Friday covering percent conversions, non-contextual word problems, increase/decrease, and sequential percents.
From Monday, Oct. 26: Decimals
- No in-class items
- Homework:
  - Read pp. 407-bottom 411.
  - p. 416: #1-3, 5, 7, 10, 20-22
  - HW #14 (manual p. 79): all
From Friday, Oct. 23: Decimals
- No in-class items
- Homework: Quiz #5 due Monday
From Wednesday, Oct. 21: Decimals
- No in-class items
- Homework:
  - Read pp. 369-370, bottom 391-394, 398-mid 401.
  - p. 373: #6
  - p. 387: #44-46
  - p. 404: #4, 15 (see #14 for abbreviations of sets)
  - HW #13 (manual p. 75): all
From Monday, Oct. 19: Decimals
- No in-class items
- Homework:
  - Read pp. 369-370, 389-394.
  - p. 373: #5-7
  - p. 387: #44-46
  - p. 396: #2abd, 7 (use remainders)
From Friday, Oct. 16: Decimals
- No in-class items
- Homework:
  - Read pp. mid 368-372, 389, bottom 394-395, 398.
  - p. 373: #11, 12, 14, 15, 24
  - p. 396: #1 (some by hand), 4, 10, 12, 13a, both TIMSS
  - p. 404: #1, 3, 8-11, 35
From Wednesday, Oct. 14: Decimals
- In-class items:
  - Summary #2: Whole Number Arithmetic Scenarios (manual p. 47)
  - Activity #5: Whole Number Arithmetic Scenarios (manual p. 49)
  - Activity #8: Word Problem Misconceptions (manual p. 71)
- Homework:
  - Study Summary #2: Whole Number Arithmetic Scenarios (manual p. 47).
  - Review "models" in pp. 96-124.
  - HW #6 (manual p. 51): #1
  - HW #7 (manual p. 53): parts a and b only of #1-4
  - HW #12 (manual p. 73): all
- Quiz #4 due as a take-home assignment FRIDAY.
From Monday, Oct. 12: Fall Break
From Friday, Oct. 9: Decimals
- No new assignments or handouts
From Wednesday, Oct. 7: Decimals
- In-class: Grade 4 "Decimal Number Logic" (Fair Use p. 9)
- Homework:
  - Read pp. 366-mid 368, 372, bottom 382-385.
  - p. 373: #1-4
  - p. 385: #18
  - HW #11 (manual p. 67): all
- QUIZ next time on everything about ratio and proportion.
From Monday, Oct. 5: Ratio and Proportion
- No in-class items
- Homework:
  - Read Example 5-21 (p. 352).
  - p. 355: #25
  - HW #10 (manual p. 65): #2-9
- QUIZ Friday on everything about ratio and proportion.
From Friday, Oct. 2: EXAM #1
From Wednesday, Sept. 30: Ratio and Proportion
- No in-class items
- Homework:
  - Read pp. 347-mid 354; read Summary #4 (manual p. 61): #3.
  - p. 355: #7, 8, 9a, 11-13, 20, 21, 26, 27, 33
  - HW #10 (manual p. 65): #1, 10
- EXAM #1 IS FRIDAY.
From Monday, Sept. 28: Ratio and Proportion
- In-class items:
  - "Comparing Circles to Triangles" (Fair Use p. 7)
  - Summary A: Representative Sets for Ratios
- Homework:
  - Read pp. 346-347, bottom 351-top 352.
  - Read in-class items and Summary #4 (manual p. 61): #1, 2.
  - p. 355: #1, 3-6, first TIMSS
  - HW #9 (manual p. 63): #2-6

Exam #1 Material

From Friday, Sept. 25: Fractions
- No in-class handouts
- Homework:
  - Read pp. mid 320-mid 322, mid 330-332. (Review boxes on pp. 221 and 234.)
  - p. 342: #9
  - HW #4 (manual p. 37): #2, 3
  - HW #5 (manual p. 43): #3
- DUE MONDAY: Quiz #3 as a take-home assignment -- You may work together, but write-up must be your own!
From Wednesday, Sept. 23: Fractions
- In-class:
  - "Fair Use" p. 6 bottom right
  - Activity #4: Visual Approaches to Fraction Division (manual p. 41)
- Homework:
  - Read pp. bottom 332-mid 338.
  - Read "Fair Use" p. 6 bottom RIGHT.
  - p. 342: #9a-d, 10cd, 11cd, 12b-e, 18a, both TIMSS
  - HW #5: Fraction Division (manual p. 43): #1, 2 (use these color codes)
From Monday, Sept. 21: Fractions
- Class cancelled due to illness
From Friday, Sept. 18: Fractions
- In-class:
  - Paper-folding: "Fair Use" p. 6 top
  - Arrays: "Fair Use" p. 6 bottom left and p. 5
  - Activity #3: Visual Approaches to Fraction Multiplication (manual p. 35)
- Homework:
  - Read pp. 329-mid 330, top two thirds of p. 338
  - Study "Fair Use" pp. 5-6.
  - Watch YouTube's Paper Folding to Model Multiplication of Fractions.
    - Watch for differences from our in-class approach and similarities to the text's approach.
    - Note that the speaker mistakenly refers to fractions as "integers."
  - Watch YouTube's Draw to Multiply Fractions general math.
  - p. 342: #1, 2, 10ab, 11ab, 12a, 15-17, 21
  - HW #4: Fraction Multiplication (manual p. 37): #1
From Wednesday, Sept. 16: Fractions
- In-class: Quiz #2
- No new homework
From Monday, Sept. 14: Fractions
- No in-class handouts
- Homework:
  - Read pp. mid 317-321.
  - p. 325: #2 and 3 (ignore "-" signs), 11, 15-18, 33
  - HW #3 (manual p. 31): all (ignore "-" signs in #2)
From Friday, Sept. 11: Fractions
- No in-class handouts
- Homework:
  - Read pp. mid 308-309 again, 314-mid 317, mid 322-325.
  - p. 310: #32 again (ignore "-" signs), try all three methods
  - p. 325: #4, 6-9 (ignore "high/low" in #8), 13, 14
  - "You Can't Fit..." (Fair Use p. 4): top and bottom problems only (answers)
From Wednesday, Sept. 9: Fractions
- In-class activities:
  - Summary #1: Comparing Fractions (manual p. 25)
  - Activity #2: Comparing Fractions (manual p. 27)
- Homework:
  - Read pp. bottom 306-309.
  - Study Summary #1.
  - p. 310: #23, 27-29, 32 -- Ignore negative signs, although doing so REVERSES the correct answers.
  - HW #2: Comparing Fractions (manual p. 29): all
From Friday, Sept. 4: Fractions
- No in-class handouts
- Homework:
  - Read pp. 302-306.
  - p. 310: #3, 7, 10-12, 13a-c, 15, 16, 19, 38
  - Explore NLVM's online Equivalent Fractions: Visualization manipulatives.
  - Here is the main page for NLVM, the National Library of Virtual Manipulatives.
- Quiz #1 is next Wednesday, Sept. 9. It is open book, open notes and covers problems like those on HW #1. Bring your paper Fraction Tiles.
From Wednesday, Sept. 2: Fractions
- In-class:
  - Activity #1: The Meaning of Fractions (man. p. 1): #3
  - Fair Use p.2 ("Using Unit Fractions..."): Example 1
  - Fair Use p.3 top
- Homework:
  - Read Convincing and Justifying through Reasoning from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
  - HW #1 (man p. 23; also below): finish
  - Fair Use p.2 ("Using Unit Fractions..."): finish (answers)
  - p. 310: #6, second TIMSS problem
From Monday, Aug. 31: Fractions
- In-class:
  - Activity #1: The Meaning of Fractions (man. p. 1): #1, 2
- Homework:
  - Read pp. 298-301 in our text.
  - p. 310: #2, 4, 5, 8, 9, first TIMSS problem
  - "Fair Use" packet p. 1: #1, 3
  - Print and color paper Fraction Tiles.
  - HW #1 (man p. 23): #1-4