Andrew M. Ross
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Syllabi, Etc.
- Summer Syllabus
- Percent Pre-test , due Thursday July 1st in class.
- If you don't have Excel, please download OpenOffice or use Google Docs.
- Turn in your spreadsheet homework by uploading it to Blackboard. Log in with your my.emich username and password.
If you have trouble, let me know ASAP by e-mail.
- Spreadsheet Homework 1 due Thursday July 1st electronically.
- Spreadsheet Homework 2 due Tuesday July 6th electronically.
- Chapter 1.3 exercises up to #18
- Chapter 2.1 worksheet,
- Chapter 2.2 skipped.
- Chapter 2.3 (Percents) Excel template Change the filename to start with your last name.
Due Thu 2010-07-08.
- Read Chapter 2.5 for Tue and Thu, July 6 and 8. Bring your book (especially the minimum wage worksheet) and a calculator
- updated CPI sheet here .
- The Chapter 2.5 homework is: all the problems #13-21, but you need only turn in the even numbered ones.
Excel template. Due Monday 2010-07-12
- We'll use this file on CPIs and the Dow Jones during class.
- Read Chapter 3.1 through 3.4
- Spreadsheet Graphing Homework
- Correlation demonstration
- Chapter 5.1: exercises 1-11; due Thursday 2010-07-22
- Chapter 5.2: exercises 4-8, 23-28,31; read Ch 5.2 for Thursday 2010-07-22, be prepared for a short quiz.
- Chapter 5.3: exercises 4, 17-26, 29. Also recommended: 27,28,32,34;
- Chapter 5.4: all exercises (but 12b is optional);
- Chapter 6.1: exercises 9-12, 14, but do only the histograms, not the dotplots or stem-and-leaf plots. (optional/extra credit)
- Chapter 6.2: #9, 10, 12, 14, 15 (but on 10, do a histogram instead of a dotplot) (optional/extra credit)
- Various worksheets on statistical significance, done on Thursday 2010-07-29.
- Read the historical context for Social Security (the link I e-mailed out) for
Monday 2010-08-02, and be prepared for a quiz (part history, part math/numbers).
- We'll use this file on CPIs and the Dow Jones during class
- CPI, Dow Jones, SocSec spreadsheet answers
- SocSec worksheet
- SocSec worksheet answers
- Op/Ed Assignment
- Final Exam Practice
- Final Exam Practice Answers
Math 477/590: Survey of Mathematical Software
Winter 2010:
Math 121
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- Syllabus
- Homework;
- Chapter 11.5 homework: due Monday 2010-03-22 at the end of class
- Chapter 11.6 homework: do Tuesday 2010-03-23 at the end of class
- Chapter 11.8 pre-lecture work: due Wednesday 2010-03-24 at the start of class
- Exam 3 redo: due Monday 2010-03-29
- Chapter 11.9 homework: due Tuesday 2010-03-30
- Chapter 11.10 homework: due Thursday 2010-04-01
- Chapter 11.11 homework: optional/extra credit
- Other extra credit offer: find the integral of e^(ax) * sin(bx) dx
using the method of "undetermined coefficients", as discussed in class.
- Other Other extra credit offer: find the integral of e^(ax) * sin(bx) dx
using complex numbers, as briefly mentioned in class.
- Other Other Other extra credit offer: Find the integral of 5/(x^2+2x+9)
using complex numbers and partial fractions, as briefly mentioned in class.
- Other Other Other Other extra credit: a) find the integral of x*e^(ax) dx
using the method of "undetermined coefficients", as discussed in class.
b) find the integral of x^2*e^(ax) dx using undetermined coeff.
c) find the integral of x^3*e^(ax) dx using undetermined coeff.
- Other^5 extra credit: Is Simpson's method a UB when f'''(x) > 0? Or
is it a UB when f''' < 0 ? Or does it depend on the 4th derivative, not the
third?
- Other^6 extra credit: Write out the expansion of (a1 + a2)*(b1 + b2). Now
write out (a1 + a2 + a3)*(b1 + b2 + b3). Now use 4 terms in each sum. Now
try to write a summation formula for (sum a_n) * (sum b_n).
- Worksheets
- Misc.
- Practice Exams; Final Exam practice is posted.
- Bessel Function demos: hanging chain
and drumheads (video
by the same guy at Youtube) and
more drumheads
- A fun idea: Fractional-order derivatives and integrals
(also here at Wikipedia, and
more Wikipedia)
- Even more fun: complex-order derivatives! here and here.
Another way to generalize derivatives: Lanczos derivatives.
"The least-squares property of Lanczos derivatives" by Burch, Fishback, and Gordon.
Mathematics Magazine, Vol 78 number 5, December 2005, pages 368-378
Other Stuff
This is just my own personal brainstorm; input is welcome!
Math Contests
Fun Data Sources
Updated 2010-06-29
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