MA 103 Spring 2001
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Syllabus: 1:30
Class / 3:00 Class
| Assignments |
| HW 1 Due Thursday, January 11 |
| Find the Symmetry of the Puzzle Pieces (here's a KEY - revised). Also find a word which has a horizontal line of symmetry. |
| HW 2 Due Tuesday, January 16 |
| Symmetry of Quadrilaterals (here's a KEY, plus Classification of Quadrilaterals), |
| Symmetry of Regular Polygons (here's its KEY) |
| Symmetry of Designs (here's its KEY) |
| HW 3 Due Thursday, January 18 |
| Read from the text: |
| 10-1 Basic Notations p. 538-541, 546-549 to review some basic geometry vocabulary (omit dihedral angles) |
| 10-2 Polygonal Curves pp. 554-561 |
| 13-4 Symmetries pp. 792-798 (omit Point Symmetry) |
| For additional practice see these exercises: |
| 10-1, p. 551ff: #6, 7, 26 |
| 10-2, p. 561ff: # 1, 4, 5, 6, 10ae (answers are in back of text) |
| 13-4, p. 798ff: # 3b, 4a, 6, 12, 14 (here's the KEY to 6, 12 and 14; the others are in the back of the text) |
| Hand-in: Complete the Classification of Quadrilaterals handout. (Here's its KEY) The diagram on p. 561 may help. |
| HW 4 Due Tuesday, January 23 |
| 10-4 More about Angles p. 586ff: #3abcd, 8abcd, 13, 14, 16, 18ab, 22ab |
| Hand-in: Sometimes, Always, Never handout and 10-4: #8ad, 13, 22ab (Here's its KEY) |
| HW 5 Due Thursday, January 25 |
| 13-5 Tesselations of the Plane p. 806ff: # 1ab, 2ab, 3abcd, 9 (Here's its KEY) |
| Hand-in: all of them (Use dot paper given in class for #1 and #3) |
| Be prepared for QUIZ 1 over HW 1 through HW 4 (By popular request, here's the KEY to QUIZ 1) |
| HW 6 Due Tuesday, January 29: Angle Puzzle |
| Hand-in: Angle Puzzle |
| Due Thursday, February 1: No homework |
| HW 7 Due Tuesday, February 6: |
| Completed answers to the handouts: |
| Exploring Triangles (Here's a KEY) |
| Exploring Quadrilaterals (Here's a KEY) |
| Properties of Quadrilaterals (Here's a KEY) |
| Be prepared for QUIZ 2 over HW 6: Angles formed by two parallel lines cut by a transversal. |
| HW 8 Due Thursday, February 8: More Tessellations (Here's its KEY as well as additional dot paper if you need it.) |
| (Sketchpad assignment postponed until Thursday Feb 22.) |
| HW 9 Due Thursday, February 15: Shapes Determined by Lengths of Sides Alone (Here's its KEY) |
| Walk in to Thursday's class with this vocabulary sheet completed (For convenience, here are page references.) |
| Here are some practice questions for the first test, which is Tuesday, Feb. 20. |
| Here's a worked out KEY to the above practice questions. |
| HW 10 Due Thursday, February 22: Sketchpad assignment |
| (Sketchpad assignment postponed until Tuesday Feb 27.) |
| HW 11 Due Thursday, March 2: Investigation 1.3 Computing Costs and 1.3 followup (A link is unavailable. Sorry! PC is in the shop. The handout is hanging on my door in KT 271. ) |
| HW 12 Due Tuesday, March 6: Bonus Homework Sorry! PC is STILL in the shop, so handouts are not in electronic form. E-mail me your postal address and I'll snail-mail them to you. |
| HW 13 Due Thursday, March 15: Parallelograms (Here's its KEY) |
| HW 14 Due Tuesday, March 20: Geoboard activity begun in class. (Note:You'll need Acrobat Reader 4.0, not 3.0, to read this file. See link at top of page.) |
| HW 15 Due Thursday March 22: No assignment! |
| HW 16 Due Tuesday March 27: Handout
on areas (Here's its KEY) (Note:You'll need Acrobat Reader 4.0, not 3.0, to read the original document Handout on areas. See link at top of page. If you're pressed for time and can't get 4.0, here is the handout retyped without pictures so you can see it using 3.0 ) |
| Practice Questions from text: 10-3, p. 575: 19-22 10-4, p. 589: 34 12-1, p. 691: 6-9, 13-16 (not 9c and not 14e) |
| Test 2: Thursday March 29 |
| HW 17 Due Thursday April 5: Read 11.1 and do page 625 #2bcde and 3bcde |
| HW 18 Due Thursday April 12:Section 11.1 2af, 5abc, 7, 8, 9abd, 13 and 11.2 1abd, 2abd, 3, 34 |
| HW 19 Due Thursday April 17: Similar Triangles Handout (Here's its KEY)
Want additional practice? Try section 11-4: 1, 7, 13, 15 TEST 3: Thursday, April 19 |
| FINAL EXAM Thursday, May 3 in our classroom 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. or 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Bring compass, protractor, ruler, and your calculator |
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