MA502 - Seminar in Selected Topics

General Course Materials

• Syllabus
• Office Hours
• Materials on Reserve

Course Notes

• 1 Teaching and Learning Mathematics
• 2 The Natural Numbers
• 3 Guessing Formulas
• 4 Relations and Functions
• 5 Polygons, Patterns, and Polyhedra
• 6 Brief Logic
• 7 Elementary Analysis

Other Handouts

• Problem Solving Examples
• Chapters in Martin Gardner's Books
• Index to Martin Gardner's Books
• Computer Lab #1
• The Great Pattern Classification Challenge

Homework

• Homework #1
• Homework #2
• Homework #3
• Homework #4
• Homework #5
• Homework #6

Exams

• Exam #1
• Exam #2

Class Projects (Note: There are numerous errors to be found in these projects)

• Schedule
  
  
• Chances Are
• Congruency of Quadrilaterals
• Congruency of Triangles
• Fractals
• Mathematics in the Movies
• The Mathematics of Gambling
• Physics
• The Physics and Math of Music
• Pi
• The Pythagorean Theorem

Interesting Links

• NCTM
• Sloane's On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences