Mathematical and Technological Reasoning I

Patrick Callahan

Autumn, 2009

Syllabus

Project Assignment

Midterm Links

Final Exam Links

Tuesday, November 17

1. Review Lab 16 results

2. Practice final

3. Practice final results

Thursday, November 12

1. Review Lab 15 results

2. Lecture on debt

3. Lab 16

Tuesday, November 10

1. Collect project charts

2. Project expectations and standards

3. Review Lab 14

4. Lecture on compound growth (PowerPoint)

5. Excel file for demonstration

6. Lab 15

Thursday, November 5

1. Review Lab 13

2. Review Homework 7

3. Lecture on exponential growth (PowerPoint, slides 28-34)

4. Lab 14

Tuesday, November 3

Agenda:

• Review Lab 12, Homework 6

• Exponential growth lecture

  Exponential growth PowerPoint

  Logarithms PowerPoint

   

• Lab 13

• Homework 7

Thursday, October 29

Agenda:

• Review Lab 11

• Demonstration file

  • Slope and Intercept functions

  • R-squared (coefficient of determination)

  forecasting

  • Using the equation

  • Projecting the line

• Lab 12

Tuesday, October 27

Agenda:

• Review lab 9 and lab 10

• PowerPoint presentation on functions, mathematical models, and linear functions

• Celsius to Fahrenheit Excel file

• Demonstration file

• Lab 11

• Homework 6

Thursday, October 22

• Complete lab 9

• Lab 10

Tuesday, October 20

Agenda:

• Excel file manipulation (demonstration file)

  - hiding columns

  - deleting columns

  - transposing files

   

• Introduction to CPI

  -  PowerPoint: Introduction to CPI

  -  PowerPoint: CPI

  -  Demonstration file: MovieTicketsPrices.xls (LSP 120 Excel Files)

   

• Lab 9

Thursday, October 15

Agenda:

• Averages

• Index numbers (PowerPoint)

• Averages demonstration file

• Index numbers demonstration file

• Lab 8

• Lab 8 data

• Homework 5

Tuesday, October 13

• Midterm (links to files)

Thursday, October 8

Agenda:

• Review Lab 5 (see Oct. 6)

• Review practice midterm

• Self-directed lab work

  New successive percents problems

  New percentage change instructions and problems

Tuesday, October 6

Agenda:

1. Percentage word problems

2. Lab 4 (simple percentage problems) results

3. Review Lab 5 and Lab 6

4. Practice midterm

Thursday, October 1

Agenda:

1. Percentage word problems

2. Successive percents (PowerPoint presentation)

3. Lab 5

4. Lab 6

Tuesday, September 29

Agenda:

1. Lab/homework review (homework 3 model answers)

2. Practice word problems (handout)

3. Lab 5

Thursday, September 24

Agenda:

1. Absolute vs. relative numbers

2. Formulas: order of operations

3. Adjusting decimal points

4. Percentages (PowerPoint presentation)

5. Lab 4

6. Homework 4

Tuesday, September 22

• Homework 2 results

• Demonstration data file

  • creating and using formulas

  • summing

  • sorting

   

• Demonstration file 2

  • Thematic mapping tool

   

• Lab 3

• Homework 4 (due 9/24)

Thursday, September 17

• PowerPoint presentation: Introduction to charts and graphs (continued)

• Demonstration data file

  • add bowling data to chart

  • add source [Statistical Abstract of United States, 2007, Table # . . .]

  • add title

  • adjust y-axis to 5000 minimum

  • copy to Word, edit title, adjust size

• Lab 2

• Homework (due 9/22)

Tuesday, September 15

• PowerPoint presentation: Introduction to charts and graphs

• Demonstration data file

• Lab 1

• Homework (due 9/17)

Thursday, September 10

• Pre-test

• Homework Assignment 1 (Due 9/15)

Thematic Mapping Tool