Mathematics 111/112 Course Materials

On this page you will find, in alphabetical order, all of the materials for these courses along with some related handouts.

  1. Addition and Subtraction of Fractions
  2. Age Puzzle
  3. Algorithms for Multiplication
  4. Altitudes of Triangles
  5. Ancient Knot
  6. Apples and Oranges
  7. Archimedes' Principle
  8. El Arco Capaz
  9. Area of an Ellipse
  10. Areas of Leaves
  11. Area of a Parallelogram
  12. Areas of Quadrilaterals
  13. Areas of Rectangles
  14. Areas of Triangles
  15. Astronomical Distances
  16. Ball in a Box
  17. Bananas
  18. Base 2
  19. A Base 2 Game
  20. Base 5 Arithmetic
  21. Borromean Rings
  22. Boxes for Chocolate
  23. Boxes from Index Cards
  24. Building Cones
  25. Calendar Dice
  26. Car Talk Puzzlers
  27. Card Tricks
  28. Chambered Nautilus
  29. Chords and Tangents of Circles
  30. The Circumference and Area of a Circle
  31. Circumscribing Quadrilaterals
  32. Coloring Maps
  33. Common Birthdays
  34. Compound Interest
  35. Constructing a Regular Pentagon
  36. Constructing Square Roots
  37. Cootie Catcher
  38. Credit Cards
  39. Cube and Tetrahedron
  40. Cuboctahedron
  41. Cylinders and Cones
  42. Cylinders from Index Cards
  43. Decimal Representation of Rational Numbers
  44. Diagonal of a Square
  45. Difference of Squares
  46. Digits Puzzle
  47. Dividing Blocks
  48. Divisibility Tests
  49. Division and Repeated Subtraction
  50. Dodecahedron
  51. Doug and Frank
  52. Drawing Circles Through Points
  53. Drawing Fractals in Geometer's Sketchpad
  54. Drawing Regular N-Gons
  55. Drawing Triangles
  56. Euler's Formula
  57. Exterior Angles of a Polygon
  58. Fibonacci Numbers
  59. A Fibonacci Puzzle
  60. Finding Prime Numbers
  61. The Flash Mind Reader
  62. Fraction Board
  63. Fractions of a Circle
  64. Grains of Rice
  65. The Gravitational Effect of Jupiter
  66. Greatest Common Divisors
  67. Grocery Shopping
  68. A Heart Ornament
  69. The Hilbert Hotel
  70. How Big is a Google?
  71. How Big is a Tyrannosaurus?
  72. How to Measure the Value of p
  73. Icosahedron
  74. Infinitely Many Primes
  75. Inscribed and Circumscribed Triangles
  76. Instant Insanity
  77. Interior Angles of a Polygon
  78. International Standard Book Numbers
  79. Interpretations of Multiplication
  80. Introduction to Geometer's Sketchpad
  81. Isometries of the Plane
  82. Jigsaw Puzzles from Quadrilaterals
  83. Jigsaw Puzzles from Squares
  84. Jurassic Park Fractal
  85. The Kaprekar Number
  86. King Kong
  87. Least Common Multiplies
  88. Light Years
  89. The Lighthouse Problem
  90. Lune
  1. A Matchstick Puzzle
  2. Mazes
  3. Measuring
  4. Medians of Triangles
  5. The Muddy Children Puzzle
  6. Multiplication and Division of Fractions
  7. Nautilus Shell
  8. The New Mexico Lottery
  9. The Number Line
  10. Number Puzzles
  11. Numbers in Between
  12. Octagon Star
  13. Octahedron
  14. Olympic Rings
  15. One Third
  16. Ordering of Numbers
  17. Origami Hexahedron
  18. Origami Octahedron
  19. Percents
  20. Perimeter and Area
  21. Piano Tuning
  22. Pitching Pennies
  23. Pizza Box
  24. Probability I
  25. Probability II
  26. The Probable Pen in the Cereal Box
  27. The Pythagorean Theorem
  28. The Pythagorean Theorem II
  29. The Pythagorean Theorem à la Garfield
  30. The Pythagorean Theorem à la Leonardo
  31. A Pythagorean Theorem Puzzle
  32. Quarters, Nickels, and Pennies
  33. The Radius of the Earth
  34. Ratios and Proportions
  35. RGB Color Charts
  36. Rhombic Dodecahedron
  37. Roman Numerals
  38. Ruler and Compass Constructions
  39. Scientific Notation
  40. The Sierpinski Triangle
  41. The Sieve of Erastothenes
  42. Similar Triangles
  43. Skeletal Polyhedra
  44. Skeletal Polyhedra II
  45. The Sliding Tiles Puzzle
  46. Snowflake
  47. Soccer Ball
  48. Spiral
  49. Square Inches
  50. Square Money
  51. Stars
  52. Strip Patterns I
  53. Strip Patterns II
  54. The Sum of the Angles of a Triangle
  55. A Symbol from The Alhambra
  56. Tangrams
  57. Tessellating Curves
  58. A Tessellation that Escher did not Use
  59. Tessellations from Rectangles
  60. Tessellations from Squares I
  61. Tessellations from Squares II
  62. Tessellations from Squares III
  63. Tessellations from Squares IV
  64. Tessellations from Triangles I
  65. Tessellations from Triangles II
  66. Tessellations of the Plane
  67. Tetris
  68. Three Congruent Pyramids that Form a Cube
  69. Tolerance of Instruments
  70. The Towers of Hanoi
  71. The Triangle Inequality
  72. Triangles Inscribed in a Semicircle
  73. Triominoes
  74. The Twilight Zone
  75. Two Triangles Puzzle
  76. Unit Conversions
  77. Universal Product Codes
  78. Using the TI-108 Calculator
  79. Valentine
  80. The Volume of Cylinder-Like Shapes
  81. The Volume of a Sphere
  82. Walking Spiders
  83. Water Beaker Puzzles
  84. Weight, Volume, and Density
  85. What is my Grade?
  86. Witches' Hats
  87. Video Poker
  88. The Yin Yang Symbol
  89. Zeno's Paradox

Other Handouts:

Geometer's Sketchpad Files