Week 0:

Thursday, August 18: first day of class

Week 1:

Due Tuesday, August 23: Read about all the course policies, including the grading scale and policy. Notice, in particular, that the cutoff for an A is 4.6 out of 5 points. Read chapter 2 through section 2.3. Do all the practice problems for sections 2.2 and 2.3 and check your answers. Hand in: problem 3 on page 30 and problem 6 on page 44. Check out this really cool zooming out and zooming in website: http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index.html

MATH 7020 students only: begin to brainstorm ideas for your project.

Due Thursday, August 25: Read section 2.4. Do the practice problems for section 2.4 and check your answers (in the section following the practice problems). Hand in: For each of the six decimal misconceptions we discussed in class, write a multiple-choice problem which a child with that misconception is likely to get wrong. Indicate the answer a child with that misconception is likely to give and indicate the correct answer as well. The multiple choice problems should ask children to identify either the smallest or the greatest number in a list of decimal numbers. If you missed Tuesday's class, download the activity on decimal misconceptions.*

*The activity is based on work by mathematics education researcher Kaye Stacey (and others). For details, see Stacey, Kaye. (2005). Traveling the Road to Expertise: A Longitudinal Study. In Chick, H. L. & Vincent, J. L. (Eds.). Proceedings of the 29th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Vol. 1, pp. 19 - 36. Melbourne: PME.

Week 2:

Due Tuesday, August 30: Read section 2.5 and do the practice problems. Check your answers to the practice problems. Do now, but hand in on Thursday: problem 13 on page 52 (of section 2.4) and problem 2 on page 56.

Due Thursday, September 1: Read section 3.1 and do the practice problems. Check your answers to the practice problems. Hand in: problem 13 on page 52 (of section 2.4), problem 2 (of section 2.5) on page 56, and problem 11 (of section 3.1) on page 66.