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Anticipated Events: Note that this will change as the term progresses | Actual events: to be filled in shortly after the class meetings |
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Jan. 13, 2000 |
Introduction. Textbook. Calculator: TI-86 (go over the option
with the TI-85). Web pages. Tests. My schedule. Notes. Start the material on Chapter 0. Assignment: Obtain text book and TI-86. Go to web pages. Print out the grading policy, and sign the printed version. This is to be turned in on next Tuesday. Read the material on Chpater 0. The web material can be found at the Descriptive Statistics. |
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Jan. 18, 2000 |
Lecture on Chapter 0, especially the web pages. Expect to cover kinds of measurements and measures of central tendency. Introduce the use of the calculator to do some of this. Cover COLLATE3. | Covered all of the material for the kinds of measurements, measures of central tendency, and measures of dispersion. We did distribute, or start to distribute the COLLATE3 program. We will finish the chapter on Thursday and we will plan for a full two hour test on next Tuesday. |
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Jan. 20, 2000 |
Complete Chapter 0 by lecturing on presentation of data. We will use the calculator statistical functions and introduce the programs to generate the table for the test. | Done. As of Saturday noon, the new pages for the TI-85 statistics and for the TI-89 statistics have been completed. Work will start immediately on the new page for the TI-86. |
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Jan. 25, 2000 |
Test on Chapter 0. For this test students will have the full two hours. | |
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Jan. 27, 2000 |
Hand back tests. Cover the material in Chapter 0, sections 0 and 1. Point out the various uses of the calculator to check your work. Students should pay particular attention to the various web pages noted in the detailed notes on Chapter 1. | Done. Also, the notes are being revised and completed. Students should check to see if there have been additions and corrections. Distributed programs for finding primes, reducing radicals, and computing the decimal value of rationals in p/q form, with endless precision. |
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Feb. 1, 2000 |
Cover Chapter 1 sections 2 and 3. Note that the lecture will stress the work in section 2. This is a topic that has given students trouble both here and in later work. The web notes for this have been updated, but more needs to be done, especially adding material for the absolute value. See the page, still under construction, on absolute value. | |
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Feb. 3, 2000 |
Cover the rest of Chapter 1, i.e., sections 4 and 5. Answer any questions about the test. Schedule the test for the first hour of Tuesday's class. | |
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Feb. 8, 2000 |
One hour test on Chapter 1. The test will be followed by a 1 hour lecture on Chapter 2, sections 0 and 1. | Did the test, but I was not able to give the lecture. We will pick up with Chapter 2 on Thursday. |
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Feb. 10, 2000 |
Look over the detailed web notes for all of chapter 2. Point out links to other web pages. Cover chapter 2, sections 0 and 1. | Done. Distributed programs for the TI-85 and 86 (QUAD, QUAD1, QUAD2, ABC, SLOPE, TRIFACT1, and TRIFACT2 -- along with TOSTR for those who did not have it). Those programs compensate for the built-in features of the TI-89. Students need to let me know of the need to have web pages that explain the TI-89 built-in capabilities. |
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Feb. 15, 2000 |
Cover Chapter 2, sections 2 and 3. Note that there is additional material related to section 2 in the web pages, especially with respect to standard form. (See if we can find the SLOPE1 program for the TI-85 and 86.) | Distributed the newer version of the SLOPE program for the TI-85 and TI-86. There was some question about a version for the TI-89. Did not get to the standard form applications. We need to do this on THurd\sday. We did cover the Linear Regressions. |
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Feb. 17, 2000 |
If at all possible, we should be able to complete chapter 2. Note that the web page for parametric equations should be helpful in both understanding parametrics and in graphing them on the TI-85 and TI-86. Cover the standard form of linear equations and application of that form to lines that are parallel and lines that are perpendicular. Note the web page for standard form. Check on a slope program for the TI-89. | |
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Feb. 22, 2000 |
Chapter 2 test for the first hour. One hour presentation of the material in Chapter 3, section 0. We do have another program to aid in this work. Find it on the TI web page and download it. | We did the test, but students needed more time. We did not do the chapter 3 section 0 material. We did distribute the poly3 program for the TI-85 and 86. |
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Feb. 24, 2000 |
Hand back the test. Go over any problems. Start the work on Chapter 3. Look at the division algorithm. Demonstrate doing the division using the POLY3 program. Also look at the new polydiv program from the TI-85, TI-86 and TI-89. There are no web pages to demonstrate these programs at this time. | Done. |
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Feb. 29, 2000 |
Answer any questions on the POLY3 program, the polydiv programs, or the use of the TI-89 to do the symbolic algebra. Cover the Remainder, Factor, and Root Theorems, along with graphing polynomial functions. | Done, but we stopped short of graphing inequalities. We did look at doing the polynomial evaluations using the POLY3 program on the TI-86. I did try to demonstrate the use of the SOLVE function on the TI-86 and it did not work in class. See the page on Introduction to the SOLVER for the TI-86. I will try to add a similar problem to the detailed notes for the chapter. |
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Mar. 2, 2000 |
Faculty In-Service Day: no class | |
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Mar. 7, 2000 |
Cover Chapter 3.3 and 3.4. Prepare for the test on Chapter 3 on Thursday. Note that new notes are on the web, and that there is a small enhancement to the polydiv programfor the 85, 86, and 89. | |
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Mar. 9, 2000 |
We will spend the entire class reviewing the test on chapter 3. | Done. |
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Mar. 14, 2000 |
Test on Chapter 3, ONLY 1 HOUR. | I expect that the test was given. Sorry that I had to miss class. |
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Mar. 16, 2000 |
Begin material on Chapter 4. | Done. Chapter 4.1 and 4.2. |
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Mar. 21, 2000 |
Continue with Chapter 4. | Done. Chapter 4.3 and 4.4. |
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Mar. 23, 2000 |
Do the practice test for Chapter 4. | Done. |
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Mar. 28, 2000 |
Test on Chapter 4. Hand out program for chapter 5. | Done. |
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Mar. 30, 2000 |
Start Chapter 5. Cover the circle and start the parabola. We are doing the practice for the test as we cover these conic sections. | Done. |
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Apr. 4, 2000 |
Finish parabola, and start the ellipse. We are doing the practice for the test as we cover these conic sections. | Done. |
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Apr. 6, 2000 |
Finish the ellipse and do all of the hyperbola. | Done. |
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Apr. 11, 2000 |
Two hour test on Chapter 5. | The open revolt in class resulted in spending the entire two hours going over the problems in the test. The test has been rescheduled for Thursday, agian two hours, open book. |
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Apr. 13, 2000 |
Two hour test on Chpater 5. Open book. | Done. |
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Apr. 18, 2000 |
Chapter 6.1 and 6.2 | Done. However, students are expected to read through the book to get additional details. |
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Apr. 20, 2000 |
Chapter 6.3 | Done. Also note that we have changed the schedule for next week. |
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Apr. 25, 2000 |
Review for the test on Chapter 6 and cover the material in Appendix A. | |
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Apr. 27, 2000 |
Test on Chapter 6 | |
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May 2, 2000 |
Schedule any final make-up tests. |
©Roger M. Palay
Saline, MI 48176
January, 2000