MA 13800, Spring 2014

Course Info.

• Course Coordinator: Renee Roames
  • ph: 494-1929
  • office: MATH 808
  • email: rroames@purdue.edu
• Assignment Sheet
• Course Calendar
• Syllabus
• Determining my Grade in Math 13800
• Arithmetic Skills Study Guide
• 2nd edition (green) text on reserve in MATH library, 3rd floor

Resources

• Graph Paper
• Worksheet for Lesson 2
• Link to NCTM illuminations web site
  • Search for the lesson "Patterns and Functions" for grades 6-8
  • Under materials, find "Tables at a Birthday Party" and print it out
• Assignment 8
  • Search for lesson "One Grain of Rice" for grades 6-8
  • Search for lesson "Drug Filtering" for grades 9-12
• Assignment 9
• Assignment 10
• Video Clip Quiz
• Group Quiz Project

Exam Info.

• Exam 1 Information
• Exam 1 Review Problems
• Exam 2 Review Problems
• Exam 2 Information
• Exam 3 Review Problems
• Exam 3 Information
• Final Exam Review Problems
  • Final Exam Review Answers
• Final Exam Information
• Location of final exam: LYNN G167

Office Hrs

• Schedule of Office Hours to print
• Monday
  • Jeremy Fuller MATH 1048 from 1:30-3:30
  • Renee Roames MATH 808 from 3:30-4:30
• Tuesday
  • Renee Roames MATH 808 from 3:30-4:30
• Wednesday
  • Renee Roames MATH 808 from 3:30-4:30
  • Jacob Boswell MATH 1037 CHANGED to FRI 11:30-12:30
• Thursday
  • Renee Roames MATH 808 from 3:30-4:30
• Friday
  • ◦Yongheng Zhang MATH 645 from 1:30-2:30

Course Description

Credit Hours: 3.00. Elementary school teachers must understand how multiplication gives rise to exponents and how to represent, interpret, and compute exponents from problem situations. They must also understand how to represent practical situations using algebraic and fractional expressions, and verbally interpret graphs of functions. They have to know basic concepts of probability theory. This course covers conceptual and practical notions of exponents and radicals; algebraic and rational functions, algebraic equations and inequalities, systems of linear equations, polynomial, exponential, and logarithmic functions. Notions of probability. Typically offered Fall Spring.

Instructor Info.

Section	Room	Time		Instructor	Office
MA 13800 021	UNIV 001	9:30am	MWF	Roames, Renee	MATH 808
MA 13800 031	UNIV 001	10:30am	MWF	Boswell, Jacob	MATH 1037

Course Materials

Section	Type	Title	Author
ALL	Textbook	Reconceptualizing Mathematics - An acceptable alternative is 978-1-4641-2383-2 (Loose Leaf) (2nd)	Sowder

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