The finals of those of you who requested them are in an envelope taped to my office door. The other piece of information you need is that a grade of 65 or higher is a passing grade.

Have a very good break, one and all!!

Our TA is Mauricio Duarte.

e-mail address: maduarte@math.washington.edu

Office: Padelford C-8D

Office hours: Wednesdays after class in the classroom

                      Fridays 2:30 - 3:30

ASSIGNMENT 1, Due Monday, September 29

I  BY SUNDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 28:   E-mail me  a brief mathematical autobiography. It needn't be particularly thorough or detailed—what I would like to know is roughly your current level and roughly your current feelings about mathematics and, insofar as you can trace them, how you arrived at those feelings. Spend a little time reflecting before you start writing – it can be interesting to delve in the area.

Put on the subject line: "170 math autobio for [your name]", and send it to warfield@math.washington.edu, with a cc. to maduarte@u.washington.edu

II  For MONDAY, SEPTEMBER   29:  Buy the textbook. Read both the Message to Prospective and Practicing Teachers on pages vii – xi, and the introduction and first section of Chapter 1 (pp 1 – top of 5). On Monday you will be in a group, and you and your groupmates will be discussing some parts of the two Discussion sections on pp. 4 and 5. Think about how you might answer them.

ASSIGNMENT 2, Due Wednesday, October 1

Read §1.2

Do Learning Exercises 1 - 9

Turn in #3, 5, and 8

NOTE: All the problems you are not turning in have answers in the back of the book. This is a very good way of checking yourself, but presents a serious danger of messing up your learning if you look at it too soon. Avoid temptation! Be wary!!

ASSIGNMENT 3, due Monday, October 6

Read §1.3 and §1.4

Look at all parts of  LE (Learning Exercises)  1.3; turn in  #1 (make that two appropriate units) and # 4
Do all parts of LE 1.4 ; turn in #6 and #8

ASSIGNMENT 4, due Wednesday, October 8

Read §2.3  (note that we are skipping over §2.1 and §2.2 for the moment)

Check out the website for #1 – could be fun if it works

Do #2 – 18
Turn in # 3, 5, 6, 7,8, 10, 13, 15, 16, 17

NOTE for #6 : the book's first example is incomplete. It should be  
111two = (1x2^2)+ (1 x 2) + (1 x 1) = 7ten = seven

ASSIGNMENT 5, due Monday, Oct. 13

First, do the Operation Drill on Bases worksheet handed out in class. You will turn it in.

Then read §2.4

Do as many of the Learning Exercises as you find helpful. Turn in #7

ASSIGNMENT 6, due Wednesday, October 15

1)  Read §2.2 and §2.5

2)  Turn in all of the Learning Exercises for §2.2

3)  In an e-mail to both Mauricio and me with subject line

            170 reading response [your name]

answer the following three questions about §2.5:

1) What surprised you?
2) What resonated with how you were taught?
3) What are you skeptical about?

ASSIGNMENT #7:

Optional: Read §2.1

Required: Read §3.1 Do LE 1 - 11 Turn in # 1,2,5, 6 and 10, 11

ASSIGNMENT #8 , due Wednesday, October 22:

Read §3.2

Do all of the LE's

Turn in #3, 4, and 8 - 11

ASSIGNMENT 9 This is not due until Wednesday, October 29, but is strongly recommended as review for Monday's midterm:

Read §3.3

Hand in L.E. #2 and #5. Be prepared to discuss #3 and #4 in class on Wednesday.

ASSIGNMENT #10, due Monday, November 3

Read §3.4 and §3.5 That's a lot of reading – if you have questions, mark them and you will have a chance to ask on Monday.

From §3.4, turn in #2 (prepare to share your answers with your group!), #3, #4 &
#10

From §3.5, turn in #1 (prepare to share your answers with your group!) & #2

ASSIGNMENT 11, due Wednesday, Nov. 5

Read §3.6 and 3.7

From LE for 3.6, turn in # 6
From LE for 3.7, turning all 9 [Note: Instructions for #4 should read "Explain how you can tell without computing that each of these answers is incorrect"]

ASSIGNMENT 12, due Monday,  Nov. 10:

1) Read §4.1 & 4.2

From §4.1, turn in

A) Activity 2 ("your turn") and  
B) 4223 divided by 34 in all four of the ways described below Activity 2.

2) Turn in the NIM & Lattice Worksheet (attached at the left)

ASSIGNMENT  due Wednesday, Nov. 12

Read §6.1 Do all the Learning Exercises except #6-8. Turn in #4,13,14,16, 22

ASSIGNMENT 14 due  Monday, Nov. 17

Read §6.2

Turn in LE #1,2,4-6, 8-10.

Go to Appendix B: Video Clips Illustrating Children's Mathematical Thinking. Read the introduction on the first page. Then do video clips 1 – 3, making sure you read the introduction to each one before watching it.

Turn in answers to Questions  #1 and 3 from the set of questions following each of the clips.

ASSIGNMENT 15, due Wednesday, November 19

Read §6.3

Turn in #1 – 5 and #8 – 10.

ASSIGNMENT 16, due Monday, November 24:

1) Read §6.5 and then watch Ally – the fourth videoclip in Appendix B.   Write out answers to the questions and prepare to discuss them in class.

Note to those who had trouble finding the videoclips: there is apparently no difficulty getting there on a university computer.

2) Read §7.1 and §7.2

3) Turn in     L.E. 7.1, # 1-3, 11-14

        L.E. 7.2  # 1 – 4, 9, 10 and 12

ASSIGNMENT 17, due Monday, December 1:

  Read §7.3
Turn in L.E.7.3 #1-7 and 10 –14

From Appendix B: Watch videoclips #5 & 6 and turn in answers to all of the reflection questions

This one you will not be turning in, but we will be discussing it in some depth on Wednesday before I hand out the Problem Potpourri. Finish the worksheet we were working on in class today, focusing hard on what you are doing and why you are doing it. The worksheet is attached at the left for those of you who missed class.