Instructor: Jodi Fasteen
TB= Textbook, WB=Workbook (spiral bound)
| HW # | Problems Due | Due Date | |
| HW 1 |
Due Tuesday, Week 2. Write up solutions for two different ways to solve the handshake problem. A complete write up should explain how to add one more person to a group, and how to find the number of handshakes for 10 people in a group. If possible, include images that might be helpful for fellow students to follow your thought process. To go the extra mile, explain how to find the number of handshakes for 20 or 100 people. Story Problems Handout - from Thursday
| Tuesday, Jan 15th | |
| HW 2 | WB: Activity 3.1, pages 45-49, problems 1-7 TB: Exercises and Problems 3.1: 2-18 even, 28, 37 (for some of the numeration systems, you'll need to read the section) TB: Writing and Discussion 3.1 # 1, 3 (Type or use your prettiest handwriting for both of these.) | Tuesday, Week 3 (Jan 22nd) | |
| HW 3 |
WB: Activity 3.2, pages 53-58, problems 1-9 Read p 145-147 : "Number Properties". Create a study guide (about 1 page) which explains and gives examples of the properties: Closure, Identity, Associativity, and Commutativity. These properties are true for addition with whole numbers. Do you think they're true for subtraction, multiplication, and division of whole numbers? Justify your answer. TB: Exercises and Problems 3.2: 3-8, 10, 12, 14, 17, 18, 20, 22, 35, 36, 43, 45 WB: Activity 3.3, pages 60-63, problems 1, 3, 5, 6
| Thursday, Week 4 (Jan 31st) | |
| HW 4 | No homework due on Tuesday, Week 5. The following will be due on Thursday.
TB: Exercises and Problems 3.3: 5, 7, 9, 10, 13, 42, 43, 52, 53 TB: Exercises and Problems 3.4: 1-7, 9, 13, 14a,b, 15, 17, 19, 27-30 (read about the equal quotients and compatible numbers methods in the chapter and jot down a few words about how they work before starting 27-30) TB: Writing and Discussion 3.4: #1 and 2 (type or use beautiful handwriting)
| Thursday, Week 5, Feb 7th | |
| Midterm, Thursday, Feb 7th Things to study:
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| HW 5 | Long division project. HW 5: WB Activity 3.4, pages 66-72, 1-6 These 3 parts will be turn in in 3 separate piles. Please keep them separated. | Tues Feb 12th | |
| HW 6 |
TB: Exercises and Problems 4.1: 3, 4, 6, 13-24 4.1: Writing and Discussion #2 TB: Exercises and Problems 4.2: 1, 3, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27 Type this part:
The end.
| Tues, Feb 19th | |
| HW 7 | No workbook or textbook homeworks are due on Tuesday. Your group lesson
plan is due on Tuesday. You will have 10 min to get ready in your small groups.
Then the groups will present in the numbered order. If you were absent on Thurs, Feb 21st,
you will not be presenting with a group. The makeup assignment will involve writing a
study guide on specific topic for the class. Email me for the topic.
On Thursday, we will discuss the Liping Ma Article. Therefore, the following will be due on Thursday, Feb 28th. Read _all of_ the article (On division of fractions) from Liping Ma's book "Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics." Write notes on what you think as you read and to keep track of the flow of the article. Write in the margins if it helps. When you have completed the reading, type a 1 page summary of the article and a 1 page opinion paper on the article (double space, regular margins). If you cannot think of enough opinions to fill 1 page, you can try asking a teacher or two (outside our class) to answer the two questions the teachers in the article were asked and write your opinions on their answers.
| Week 8 | |
| Long Division Project, cont. | If you received a score out of 10 on your long division
project, then it is complete. If you received a score out of 3 (ex 3/3 or 2/3), then the
paragraph answer portion is complete (Originially called part 4 a,b), but you should submit
a new draft of the long division project. The requirements for the second version of the
long division project are to demonstrate how your visual model connects to the long division
algorithm traditionally taught it grade school. Include explanations of regrouping and
dealing with left-over pieces and show how that matches what happens in the algorithm. Your second draft of the long division project must be stapled to the original draft that has been returned to you in class. It should not be attached to any other homeworks. | Tues, March 4th | |
| HW 8 |
TB: Exercises and Problems 5.2: 3, 5, 11, 13, 15, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 29 TB: Exercises and Problems 5.3: 1, 3, 5, 13, 15, 17, 21, 22, 35-40 (label your answers for story problems) WB 5.3: 1, 3-7
| HW due on Thurs, March 6th, midterm day. | |
| Midterm, Thurs, Week 9 (March 6th) | |||
| Suggested problems. |
Recommended problems: TB 6.1: 5, 7, 11, 15, 21, 23, 25, 37, 39 TB 6.2: 3, 5, 7, 9, 13, 14, 15, 29 | Not Due. | |
| Final Exam is scheduled for Tuesday, March 18th, 5:30-7:20. |