Math 95 Materials, Fall 2003

Course Syllabus:  Available in a web-viewable (HTML) format, or as a Microsoft Word™ document.

Math 95 discussion web

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Handouts/Worksheets:  Study the worksheets carefully -- I consider them part of your textbook for this class.

• TI-83/86 handout:  Word
• TI-82/83 handout, written by B. Hogan:  Word
• Reading summary form:  Word
• WS I on ratios and percents (Idea/Notation):  Word
• WS II on ratios and percents (Concept):  Word
• WS III on ratios and percents (Computation via proportions):  Word
• WS on quantifying change:  Word
• WS on annuities and order of operations:  Word
• WS on linear equations and graphs:  Word
• WS on quadratic equations and graphs:  Word
• WS on exponents and scientific notation:  Word

Homework/Course Objectives:

• Key concepts to review weekly:  Word
• Homework Policies:  HTML
• Hw #1 (Autobiography):  Word
• Hw #2 (Order of Op, Graph reading):  Word
• Hw #3 (Percents, Ratios, and Proportions):  Word
• Hw #4 (Percents, Proportions, and Statistics):  Word
• Hw #5 (Creating and evaluating graphs):  Word
• Hw #6 (Quantifying change):  Word
• Hw #7 (Formulas and graphing):  Word
• Hw #8 (Linear equations and graphs):  Word
• Hw #9 (Systems of linear equations):  Word
• Hw #10 (Quadratics):  Word
• Hw #11 (Exponents):  Word

Excel Labs:

• Lab #1 (Data sources and formatting):  Word; Sample article (Adobe Acrobat PDF format)
• Lab #2 (Obtaining data; Pie and bar charts):  Word; Assignment data (95Lab2.xls)
• Lab #3 (Statistics, histograms, and application of ideas):  Word
• Lab #4 (Creating and formatting line graphs):  Word
• Lab #5 (Using formulas to compute measures of change):  Word
• Lab #6 (Investigating functions using Excel):  Word
• Lab #7 (Linear regression):  Word

Quizzes:

• Knowledge Inventory:  Word
• Quiz #2 (Percents, proportions, statistics):  Word
• Quiz #3 (Line graphs and describing trends):  Word
• Quiz #4 (Graphing formulas):  Word
• Quiz #5 (Recognizing linearity and finding slope/intercepts from the graph):  Word
• Quiz #6 (Computing equations of lines from data and solving linear systems graphically):  Word
• Quiz #7 (Graphing quadratics and simplifying exponential expressions):  Word

Projects/Portfolios/Exams:

• Midterm exam and portfolio:  Exam info/review - Word; Answers - HTML;
  Portfolio instructions - Word; Sample letter - HTML or Word
• Final exam and portfolio:  Sample exam (for review); Answers to sample;  Final exam
  Portfolio instructions - Word

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