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!) |
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: |
|
Nov 3 More infinity. Practice problems are here
now. |
No class. |
| Nov 10 Traceable graphs. Notes from class. Practice 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.