Math 140 Unit Two: Integers

Resources: Billstein: Chapter 3; Sections 4-1, 4-2

Dolan: Chapter 3 - activity 3,14; Chapter 4 activity 2,3

Supplement: Unit Two

Schedule:

September 17: Project # 1 due - Dolan p 16 and 17; King Tut I 23-24. Read Chapter 3: Section 1.

September 22: Journal 1 due: Write a one-two page mathematical autobiography. Try to describe how your experiences learning mathematics have contributed to your attitude to mathematics. Read Chapter 3: Section 2 and 3.

September 24: Homework #3 due; Read Chapter 3: Section 4 and 5..

September 29: Quiz # 1: calculator use; Homework #4 due. Read Chapter 4: Section 1 and 2.

October 6: Unit One Extra Credit due.

October 8: Unit Two Test

October 15: (correction 13) Project #2 due - Supplement: 2-10 through 2-13.

October 17: (correction 15) Quiz #2: whole numbers and integers.

October 22 (correction 20) Last day to redo any Unit One test questions..

Homework Number Three:

Section 3-1: Problems 2 (b, d,& f), 6b, 11(b, d), 15 (d,f), 18, 24, 38. Section 3-2: Problems 10, 14; Section 3-3: Problem 17; Section 3-4: Problem 17; Dolan activities: Chapter 3: activities 3 and 14.

Homework Number Four:

Section 3-4: Problems 14, 19, 39; Section 3.5: Problems 15, 17c, 33b, 36, 39; Section 4-1: 8, 12, 30, 32c: Section 4-2: Problems 9, 24(a,b,e) , 25a. Dolan: Activity 11 - p. 14 only.

Note: In Section 1-3 do problems from pages 44,45 not review problems on 48-49.

PRACTICE: Do at least the following.

Section 3-1: Problems 1, 6c, 7c, 8a, 9a, 12, 14a, 16a, 17c, 19c, 21, 23c, 25c, 27, 32, 34, 37,40

Section 3-2: Problems 4, 17, 23, 24a, 37, 38

Section 3-3: Problems 1, 5e, 16, 18, 38, 39, 42

Section 3-4: Problems 1c. 2c. 8, 11, 18c, 20b, 23a, 25, 28, 29b, 31a, 32a, 38.

Section 3-5: Problems 5a, 6a, 8c, 22, 25b, 26, 30, 34c, 35a, 43, 48.

Section 4-1: Problems 4a, 5a, 6a, 9, 10, 15, 18, 23c, 23g, 24, 29b, 38b.

Section 4-2: 12f, 13, 23a, 26, 27, 43.

Extra Credit Problems for Journal: Solve the following problems for extra credit. All solutions must include the reasoning behind the answers.

1. Solve brain teasers p 119, 129, 139, 151, and 168.

2. Supplement: 2-22

3. Do you think the previous two problems are appropriate for this course? Why or

why not? Be sure to state what you think the instructor had in mind as the `main point'

of each exercise.