MATH 55 SYLLABUS
Spring 1996
Text: Mathematical Modeling ln the Secondary School Curriculum,
Edited by Frank Swetz and J.S. Hartzler,
National Council for Teachers of Mathematics, 1991.
(Referred to as [MM] below).
See brief outline.
Topics covered
- I. Combinatorics
- II. Probability
- III. Equations and Inequalities
- IV. The Cartesian Coordinate System
- V. Statistics
- Topics
- Portraying Data
- Measures of Central Tendency
- Measures of Dispersion
- Grading on a Curve
- Cryptology
- Group Project
- Analysis of Test Scores
- Cryptology
- Deciding Authorship
- Median and Optimization
- [MM]
- Exercise 5 (Facility Location)
- VI. Exponential Functions
See full outline.
This page is maintained by John Noonan, Department of Mathematics.
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Last modified April 25, 1996.
