4J. Baldwin's Math 300 Home Page

  Welcome to the homepage for Prof. John Baldwin's Spring 2009 course:      
    Math 300: Writing for Mathematics

  Two sections (meet at 9:00 and 10:00 AM Wednesday.

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  Office: 613 SEO 

 Office hours:11 AM T 11 AM W; 1PM Th (tentative)

 or by appointment  Phone: (312) 413-2149

 (fax 996-1491)

 Email: jbaldwin@math.uic.edu

 

Course policies, and weekly homework assignments, are given in:

Course Syllabus (HTML)

ASSIGNMENTS

Due Dates (HTML)

Codes for Comments on your papers (pdf)

 

Assignment 1 (due January 21: one page on plagiarism)

Essay I: Compound Interest

Jan 14 notes

Jan. 28 notes updated

Comments on first draft of Essay I

Comments on final versions of essay I

Essay II: Blocks r us

 

 

Assignment due Feb. 25

 

The Mathematics of Essay II

 

 

Essay III.  Just how much paint?

 

The Mathematics of Essay III

 

What is a Messerschmidt?

 

Comments on first draft of Essay 3

 

Final Comments Essay 3

 

Assignment due Apr. 22- Job Application

 

Comments on Job Applications

 

 

 

Another approach to nonconvergence of the harmonic series

 

 

In-class Activities

 

The English of the block problem: Essay 2

 

More practice on Essay 2

 

Excerpt from Strunk and White

 

Background Information from earlier Math 300 Classes

 

law of Cosines WORD (html)

TeX examples (pdf)

tex file for TeX examples (html)

Math in WORD(html)

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WEB LINKS

 

Web Links for this course


Further course handouts will be posted, stay tuned.


Last revised: 20 Dec. 2008 by J. Baldwin