Sunday, October 25, 2009

(31) DUE: Monday, November 2

  • SAT questions Test
  • Hand in 8.5 Problem #8
  • Do all steps like our recursion sheet. You will add this to the portfolio.

(30) DUE: Firday, October 30

  • Mixed Recursion Quiz

(29) DUE: Thursday, October 29

  • Complete Mortgage mixed recursion sheet
  • Portfolio page on Annuities and Loans (mortgages)
  • 8.5: Do problems 3, 7, and 8 for presenations.

(29) DUE: Wednesday, October 28

  • Portfolio page on BU: What did you learn. Use your notes.
  • Extra credit: News article for O'Bryant newsletter on BU field trip. Feel free to get quotes from students, teachers, presenters (Dr. Devaney). Best will get published.

(27) DUE: Tuesday, October 27

  • Do Drug mixed recursion sheet. Hand in at BU.
  • Come to BU - Sherman Union by 7:45 am with pen, paper, something to write on and lunch or lunch money. You will be tardy if after 7:45 am and you will miss the good donuts.

Sunday, October 18, 2009

(6) DUE: Monday, October 26

  • Read 489 - 490

  • Do: 8.5 (2 & 3)
  • Check answers in back for #2 and do #3 based on the reading and your doing and correcting #2

(25) DUE: Friday, October 23

  • Table presentations on 8.4 (5, 6, 7, and 9)
  • Show all work and be prepared to explain completely.
  • All are responsible and will get a group grade.

(24) DUE: Thursday, October 22

  • Do 8.4 Problems 5, 6, 7, and 9
  • show all work.

Saturday, October 10, 2009

(23) DUE: Wednesday, October 21

  • Read 8.4 (pg. 479- 480)
  • Do: Problems 1, 2, 4
  • Show ALL work.
  • You can check answers in back, but you need to show work and explain. No "I can't explain."

(22) DUE: Tuesday, October 20

  • Read 8.4 Mixed Recursion (Tower of Hanoi) pg. 476 - 478

(21) DUE: Monday, October 19

  • Complete Sierpinski Gasket sequence sheet.
  • Find the explicit formulas for all columns.

(20) DUE: Friday, October 16

  • Solve Tower of Hanoi
  • Read pages 476 - 477 where the problem is explained.
  • Figure out how to have the minimum number of moves so that you can explain it to the class.

(19) DUE: Thursday, October 15

  • MY College Costs for late grade (highest is 60 now that it is aver a week late 8>( )
  • Fractal portfolio page

(18) DUE: Wednesday, October 14

  • BU Worksheet on sequences, fractals, imaginary numbers, and chaos: Answers questions on sides of sheet.

Saturday, October 3, 2009

(17) DUE: Tuesday, October 13

  • BU Field Trip Sheet about iteration.
  • Answers right on page.
  • Hand in BU field trip permission page signed by parent/guardian.
  • Wrap up fractal portfolio page.
  • Extra credit: Watch NUMB3RS. Write it up (episode and math)

(16) DUE: Friday, October 9

  • Do Paying Off College for YOUR assumptions.
  • These assumptions require you to decide where is the most likely college for you, what you would like to do when you leave college, and how much you will earn in that job.
  • Your solution is only as good as your personal assumptions. Choose them carefully.
  • BU field trip permission slip signed by parent/guardian.

(15) DUE: Thursday, October 8

  • Complete portfolio page on fractals.
  • Read 6 page article on Benoit Mandelbrot, the discoverer of fractals.
  • Summarize the article writing about who was Mandelbrot and his mathematics of fractals.

(14) DUE: Wednesday, October 7

  • Explain why:
  • A coastline is a fractal.
  • A Jackson Pollack painting is a fractal.

  • Get information from pages 506-507 and the web. (If you aren't sure what a Jackson Pollack painting looks like, google: "Jackson Pollack.")

(13) DUE: Tuesday, October 6

  • Re-do Paying off College Costs using the worksheet we went over in class.
  • Determine the payoff periods for both private and public colleges.
  • Staple this sheet to the one you did last week to be handed in.
  • If you did not complete the Sierpinski Gasket sheet, complete it for Tuesday. We will be going over it in class.