MA 13800, Spring 2016

Course Info.

• Course Coordinator: Renee Figueroa
  • email: rfigueroa@purdue.edu
  • office: MATH 808
  • phone: 494-1929
• Assignment Sheet
• Course Calendar
• Syllabus
• Determining my Grade in Math 13800
• Arithmetic Skills Study Guide
• Add/Drop

Resources

• Graph Paper
• Worksheet for Lesson 2
• graph for lesson 7
• 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, study
• Assignment 8
• Link to NCTM Illuminations web site
  • Search for lesson "One Grain of Rice"
  • for grades 6-8
  • read through the lesson
  • Search for lesson "Drug Filtering"
  • for grades 9-12
  • read lesson and print out worksheet
• 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 Information
• Exam 3 Review Problems
• Final Exam Review Problems
  • Normal Curve and formulas
• Final Exam Information

Office Hrs

• Schedule of Office Hours to print
• Monday
  • Renee Figueroa MATH 808 from 9:30-10:30
  • Brittney Miller MATH 1043 10:30-11:30
• Tuesday
  • Renee Figueroa MATH 808 from 3:30-4:20
• Wednesday
  • Brittney Miller MATH 1043 10:30-11:30
• Thursday
  • Renee Figueroa MATH 808 from 3:30-4:20

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	2:30pm	MWF	Figueroa, Renee	MATH 808
MA 13800 031	UNIV 001	1:30pm	MWF	Figueroa, Renee	MATH 808

Course Materials

Section	Type	Title	Author
ALL	Textbook	Loose-leaf Version for Reconceptualizing Mathematics (Second Edition)	Judith Sowder

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