Assignments

Numbers and Operations

These assignments documents are designed for practice with mathematical ideas and learning to explain mathematics thoroughly and understandably. Click on the "Preview" thumbnails to see a slideshow of the documents, or click the "PDF" button to download a handout.

Downloadable Files

Title	Content	Preview	Download
Homework and Quiz Policies for the 8am Section of 181	Policies agreed upon as a class through a pseudo-democratic procedure.
Homework and Quiz Policies for the 2pm Section of 181	Policies agreed upon as a class through a pseudo-democratic procedure.
Homework Assignment for 8/26/08	Includes two surveys and a quiz on the syllabus
How Do You Like to Learn?	Short survey used to help the instructor better understand students.
Interests Survey	Short survey used to help the instructor better understand students.
Formative Assessment for Ancient Number Systems	Quick in-class assessment of whether students understand the Babylonian and Egyptian Number systems.
Homework Assignment handed-out on 9/9/08	Due at the beginning of class on 9/9/08, including some required and some optional exercises.
Place Value on the Horizon	Book excerpt for students doing item 7 from the 9/9 Homework.
Homework assigned on 09/16/08	A list of required and optional exercises related to two-color counters, fractions, and base-ten blocks-- and some other things too!
Homework Assigned on 10/09/2008	A good mix of old and new content, including fractions, decimal notation, and some book problems.
Homework assigned on 10/14/08	Take a voyage through the book while thinking about fractions, sharing, and equivalence.
Homework assigned on 10/21/08	A few applications of the area model, lattice method, and related approaches to multiplication.
Writing Assignment	Three-page essay due on the last day of the semester
Survey on Classroom Experiences	Completed as part of the writing assignment.