This Week’s Reading’s and Assignments

Before class tomorrow (for each day of class!), please complete the following:

Day 16 (Mon, July 25)

  • Read:
    • Sketch 21
    • Sketch 22
  • Do:
    • Sketch 21:
    • Sketch 22:

Day 17 (Tues, July 26)

  • Read:
    • Sketch 19
    • Sketch 25
  • Do:
    • Sketch 19: 4; If you have a globe explore 1, 2, and 3
    • Sketch 25: 3

Do you crochet? You can make a hyperbolic plane!

The pattern is incredibly simple: as long as you consistently increase the same for every row, you’ll achieve a hyperbolic surface (constant negative curvature).

I’ve made several different increase counts. Let’s do the simplest version:

  1. Chain 20.
  2. 4sc, inc.
  3. repeat row 2 until it’s as big as you want. The finished project will look like coral.

Day 18 (Wed, July 27)

  • Read:
    • Sketch 23
    • Sketch 24
  • Do:
    • Sketch 23: Look through the questions and projects and do any that seem interesting. You might already be familiar with the material of all the questions.
    • Sketch 24: 1, 4, (5 if you feel adventurous)

Day 19 (Thur, July 28)

  • Read:
    • Sketch 6
    • Sketch 20
  • Do:
    • Sketch 6: 1, 2
    • Sketch 20: 1, 2;

Day 20 (Fri, July 29) Last day!

WE FINISHED MTA

  • We read the book cover to cover. Great job!

… actually… In lieu of a reading assignment, let me pose the following philosophical question - “What is math?”

Previous Readings and assignments

Week 1

Day 2 (Wednesday, July 6)

Day 3 (Thursday, July 7):

  • Read:
    • Sketch 2
    • Sketch 4
  • Do:
    • Sketch 2 questions 1, 4, 5
    • Sketch 4 questions 4, 6, 7
  • Do you have modeling clay/playdoh? Can you dig a hole in your yard and get some wet dirt?
  • Grab your ‘clay,’ a popsicle stick (or regular stick) and watch along to learn to write Cuineiform:

Day 4 (Friday, July 8):

Week 2

Day 5 (Monday, July 11):

  • Try to find about 70 pennies (we want consistent-sized small circular discs) (it’s okay if you can’t, but if you have them, bring them!)
  • Read:
    • Sketch 7
    • Sketch 9
  • Do:
    • Sketch 7: Problems 1 and 2
    • Sketch 9: Problems 1, 2, 3
    • The first presentations are “due” tomorrow! Students are presenting Tuesday and Wednesday!

Day 6 (Tuesday, July 12):

(presentations this day - changed reading dates)

Day 7 (Wed, July 13)

  • Read:
    • Sketch 28
    • Sketch 10
  • Do:
    • Sketch 28: Problems: (none assigned but take a look)
    • Sketch 10: Problems: 2 (try), 3, 5
  • Read:

Day 8 (Thur, July 14)

  • Read:
    • Sketch 5
    • Sketch 11
  • Do:
    • Sketch 5: Problems: 1, 3, 5
    • Sketch 11: Problems: 1, 3

Day 9 (Fri, July 15)

  • Read:
    • Sketch 17
    • Sketch 29
  • Do:
    • Sketch 17: Problems 6, 7
    • Sketch 29: (none assigned)
    • First mathematician biography is Due Today, Friday ( Email to me by 9pm)
    • Be working on the Historical timeline overview for this mathematician

Week 3

Day 10 (Mon, July 18)

  • Read:
    • Sketch 14
    • Sketch 13
  • Do:
    • Sketch 14: 1, 4
    • Sketch 13: 2, 4
  • History overview due today, Monday (Email by 9pm)
  • The second presentations are “due” tomorrow! Students are presenting Tuesday and Wednesday!

Day 11 (Tue, July 19)

  • Read:
    • Sketch 3
    • Nutshell 22 - 66
  • Do:
    • Sketch 3: Problems 3, 4, 5
    • “Nutshell”
      • Since we’ve now seen a “Large Nutshell” overview of math, let’s take a moment to find the topic project that we (you) will be presenting. This is the MTA Project of the syllabus.
        • What topic in math is really interesting to you?
        • What would you like to read more about?
        • Find the relevant sketch in MTA and look at the Projects section at the end.
        • Pick two projects you’d like to cover and claim them on this spreadsheet.
        • Send me an email after you’re done.

Day 12 (Wed, July 20)

  • Read:
    • Sketch 15
    • Sketch 16
  • Do:
    • Sketch 15: question 1, 3, 4
    • Sketch 16: question 3 (use a ruler and plot points)

Day 13 (Thur, July 21)

  • Read:
    • Sketch 18
    • Sketch 27
  • Do:
    • Sketch 18: 2, 4
    • Sketch 27: 1abc, 4

Day 14 (Fri, July 22)

  • Read:
    • Sketch 26
    • Sketch 30
  • Do:
    • Sketch 26: 1, 3, 4
    • Sketch 30: 5 (531 students: all of them)
  • Second mathematician biography is Due Today, Friday ( Email to me by 9pm)
  • Be working on the Historical timeline overview for this mathematician