Math 126: Activities in Math Announcements and class information

e-mail the teacher: laurel.langford@uwrf.edu

Tuesday Thursday
  Sept 3 Probability and complements. Practice here
Sept 8 More probability: variations on the birthday problem. Practice here.  Sept 10.  Still more probability. Practice here
Sept 15 A bit about fractals. practice problems [class was cancelled this day]

Sept 22 There is a homework assignment due Thursday for which you will need to use a Mandelbrot/Julia set web site. Here are several: My favorite, and another, and another. (Make sure you find the missing dot and draw it in!)
There will be a short quiz next time--more about fractal dimension. Sample quiz problem(s)

Complex numbers
Sept 29 The Julia function
 Chaos. Problems here.
Oct 6  More chaos.  Problems here.  Today we started learning about Mayan numbers.  There was an assignment, and there will be no quiz on Tuesday.

Oct 13 More on Mayan numbers practice here

 Babylonian numbers.  Practice here.
Oct 20 review for exam, and quiz on Babylonian numbers.
Here are the notes from in class
 Midterm Exam (study the practice problems for quizzes from beginning of semester until now)
Oct 27 Infinity:
Here's the Hotel infinity story.
Here are a couple of practice problems.  There will be a short quiz next time.

 More Infinity:
Here's the Hotel infinity story.
More practice problems.

Nov 3 More infinity.  Practice problems are here now.

 No class. 

Nov 10 Traceable graphs.  Notes from classPractice problems
 Euler number practice problems
Nov 17 Finding vertices edges and faces on polyhedra practice problems
 Topological Equivalence (Rubber sheet geometry, sec. 5.1) Practice problems
Nov 24 If you weren't in class, you can learn about the Art Gallery problem by reading the book: section 4.2
Practice problems.
 Happy Thanksgiving
Dec 1 We watched the video Flatland, and talked about dimensions, 1, 2, 3, and a little bit about dimension 4.
Practice problems.
 More dimension 4.  Practice the practice problems from last time, plus these: 4-D cube practice
Dec 8 A little more 4D geometry.  Practice here.
 

Final exam: Thursday, December 17 @ 1:00 - 3:00 p.m.