Math 304-Informal Geometry

Spring Semester 2004

Instructor: Dr. Harms

Calendars of Readings and Assignments:

Unit 1 - Statistics and Probability (Jan. 13^th - Feb. 17^th)

Unit 2 - Geometry (Feb. 19^th - April 6th)

Unit 3 - Measurement (April 8^th - May 13^th)

Final Exam May 7th at 12:00 or May 13 at 9 am

Problem of the Week for Elementary Mathematics- links to about a dozen sites that are rated and described

http://www.wits.ac.za/ssproule/elem_pow.html

Simulation, Probability and Statistical Links- Complete the Cereal Box Problem Simulation with 5 prizes

http://web.mnstate.edu/harms/Math304/WebPage/links.html

What is a Tessellation-Follow the Teacher Lesson Plan link and

http://mathforum.org/sum95/suzanne/whattess.html

Investigating Patterns: Polyhedra Pastimes-In Activity 2 follow the Studying Polyhedra link

http://www.camosun.bc.ca/~jbritton/jbpolyhedra.htm

Polyhedral Solids - the name of the class that they define with images of its members

http://home.teleport.com/~tpgettys/poly.shtml

http://matti.usu.edu/nlvm/nav/vlibrary.html

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Principals and Standards-Standards for School Mathematics:
Prekindergarten through Grade 12

http://standards.nctm.org/document/chapter3/index.htm

http://illuminations.nctm.org/index2.html

http://www.mctm.org/