Office: MATH 641
Mail box: MATH 427 (WEILAND)
Email: jweiland@purdue.edu
Office hours: Monday and Wednesday 11:30-12:30
Syllabus
Lessons
The slides for the following lessons are uploaded to the brightspace page.- Lesson 1: Ways of thingking about solving story problems; quantative analysis
- Lesson 2: Issues for learning: ways of illustrating story problems
- Lesson 3: Base-ten place value
- Lesson 4: Different place values
- Lesson 5: Large Numbers
- Lesson 6: Decimals - Part I
- Lesson 7: Decimals - Part II
- Lesson 8: Decimals - Part III
- Lesson 9: Ways of thinking about addition and subtraction
- Lesson 10: Chilren's ways of adding and subtracting
- Lesson 11: Ways of thinking about multiplication
- Lesson 12: Ways of thinking about division
- Lesson 13: Childre find products and quotients; Issues for learning: developing number sense
- Lesson 14: Operating on whole numbers and decimal numbers
- Lesson 15: Mental computation
- Lesson 16: Computational estimation
- Lesson 17: Estimating values of quantities
- Lesson 18: Understanding the meanings of a/b
- Lesson 19: Comparing fractions
- Lesson 20: Equivalent fractions
- Lesson 21: Relating fractions, decimals, and percents; Issues for learning uunderstanding fractions and decimals
- Lesson 22: Problem solving with fractions/making sense of addition and subtraction of fractions
- Lesson 23: Making sense of multiplication of fractions
- Lesson 24: Making sense of division of fractions
- Lesson 25: Quantitative analysis of multiplicative situations; Fractions in multiplicative comparisions
- Lesson 26: Ration as a measure; Comparing rations
- Lesson 27: Percents in comparisons and changes
- Lesson 28: Big ideas and children's reasoning about signed numbers; Other models for signed numbers
- Lesson 29: Operations with signed numbers
- Lesson 30: Multiplying and dividing by signed numbers
- Lesson 31: Factors
- Lesson 32: Prime factorization
- Lesson 33: Divisibility and divisibility rules
- Lesson 34: Greatest common factor
- Lesson 35: Least common multiple
Homework
Homework is due at 3pm every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. See the syllabus for a description of each homework assignment. The lowest 4 homework socres will be dropped at the end of the semester.Quizzes
Quizzes will typically be given in person on Friday in the last ten minutes of class. The two lowest quiz scores will be dropped at the end of the semester.- Quiz 1 (Jan 12): Arithmetic skills quiz 1
- Quiz 2 (Jan 19): Lessons 1-3
- Quiz 3 (Jan 26): Lessons 4-6
- Quiz 6 (Feb 12): Arithmetic skills quiz 2
- Quiz 7 (Feb 16): Lessons 12-13
- Quiz 8 (Feb 23): Lessons 14-16
- Quiz 9 (Mar 1): Lessons 17-19
- Quiz 11 (Mar 22): Arithmetic skills quiz 3
- Quiz 12 (Mar 29): Lessons 23-26
- Quiz 13 (Apr 3): Lessons 27-28
- Quiz 17 (Apr 19): Lessons 32-33
Projects
Projects are completed outside of class and are due at 11:59pm on the indicated day.- Quiz 5 (Feb 5): Digital story
- Quiz 10 (Mar 4): Video project
- Quiz 14/15 (Apr 5): Fraction division project
- Quiz 16 (Apr 17): Exam question project
Exams
There will be three exams throughout the semester plus a final at the end of the semester that will test over all material covered in the course.- Exam 1: Feb 6 from 8-9pm in UC 114 Lessons 1-11
- Exam 2: Mar 6 from 8-9pm in UC 114 Lessons 12-22
- Exam 3: Apr 9 from 8-9pm in UC 114 Lessons 23-31
- Final: May 2 from 7-9pm in BRNG 2280 Lessons 1-35