Patterning the World: Connecting Mathematics and Science – Spring 2014

• The Week 10-11 Calendar Page is available.
• The handout from the Week 9 Wrap gives more detailed information about the schedule, activities, and portfolios.
• We didn’t have time in class to begin the discussion about Self-Evaluations, described on the second page of the handout. Email your questions to Krishna, and he will collect and answer them.

• You can find the Quiz 7 Revision Version at the Week 9 Calendar page.
• Note: this Quiz Revision is due Monday June 2 with individual Quiz Revision Discussions between 1 – 3 pm in Sem 2 A2105.

Some special items to note

• No class on Monday (Memorial Day)
• Reading Response and Reflections are due Monday at 6pm rather than Sunday
• The Assignments & Assessments Checklist with Program Activities Log is Due Tuesday at 8:30. Please see the Week 8 Calendar page for Thursday May 22 if you need the handout passed out in class.
• Tuesday at 8:30 am is Quiz 7 on Week 8 material in Lecture Hall 5. We will have a lecture from 9 – 10 on the pre-calculus reading. We’ll start the Math Lab at 10:15 in the CAL.
• Individual Quiz 6 revisions are due Tuesday and must be entirely complete, correct, and with clear reasoning for each problem. See the Week 8 calendar page to get a copy of the individual quiz revision.

You can find the Quiz 6 Revision Version at the Week 8 Calendar page.

On this Wednesday May 21st of week 8 we will NOT have a physics lab. We will have an all-class group quiz revision and solutions posting in A2105 followed by an all-class lecture/seminar/question/problem session also in A2015. Please re-read Ch 6.1 and Ch 6.5 before class!

Both groups meet in A2015 at on Wednesday May 21st at 8:30 for class from 8:30 until 12:00.

• You can find a version of the polygons handout from Thursday’s Wrap here. Thanks to Pyxie for facilitating.
• There were a number of great questions generated in that session. You should investigate whichever strike your interest.
• In particular, you should play around, make some measurements, do some calculations, etc. to investigate whether you can find:
  1. a pattern in the total enclosed angle (or the angle per side) as related to the number of sides; in other words find a(n), the angle a as a function of side number n
  2. a pattern in the area of the polygon as related to the number of sides, in other words, find A(n), the area A as a function of side number n.

• Week 8 Calendar page is posted.
• Week 8 is Music Week! Some minor modifications to room locations and announcements about what to bring below.
  • Monday 8:30. Regular class meeting in Lecture Hall 4. Quiz on week 7 material starts at 8:30
  • Monday 10:00 – noon and 1:00 – 3:00 in CAL.
    • If you own a set, bring your headphones to the CAL on Monday (it’s music week!).
    • Bring an empty plastic or glass beverage bottle (soda, juice, etc.) to the CAL on Monday – the kind that if you blow across the opening, you can make a sort of whistle (it’s music week!).
    • If convenient, bring any personal musical instruments to the CAL on Monday (guess what week it is?!).
  • Tuesday 8:30. Regular class meeting in Lecture Hall 5.
  • Tuesday 9:30 – noon in CAL.
    • If you own a set, bring your headphones to the CAL on Monday (guess what week it still is?!).

The prompts for this week’s essay responses are from the program syllabus, and direct you to provide examples with specific details about how you have:

• Improved habits for achieving success in future work especially in math and science,
• Developed increasingly sophisticated skills for learning from text and a variety of other resources.

You can find the Quiz 5 Revision Version at the week 7 Calendar page.