Mathematics 111, Section 1
Day to Day Schedule - Fall 2001

Week 1

• 22 August. We discussed the course policies.
• 24 August. We worked The Number Line. This assignment is due on Monday.

Week 2

• 27 August. We worked Interpretations of Multiplication. This assignment is due on Friday.
• 29 August. We worked Using the TI-180 Calculator. This is a journal assignment.
• 31 August. We started Division and Repeated Subtraction.

Week 3

• 3 September. Labor Day Holiday.
• 5 September. We finished Division and repeated Subtraction. It is due on Friday.
• 7 September. We worked Ratios and Proportions. This is a journal assignment.

Week 4

• 10 September. We worked How Big is a Tyrannosaurus?. This assignment is due on Friday.
• 12 September. We worked Astronomical Distances. This is a journal assignment.
• 14 September. We worked Diagonal of a Square. This is a journal assignment.

Week 5

• 17 September. We worked Square Inches and we began on Scientific Notation. These are both journal assignments.
• 19 September. We finished Scientific Notation and began How Big is a Google?. The latter assignment is due on Monday. We will continue to work on it Friday.
• 21 September. We finished How Big is a Google? and worked Light Years. The latter is a journal assignment.

Week 6

• 24 September. We worked Fractions of a Circle. This is a journal assignment.
• 26 September. We finished Fractions of a Circle and worked The Sierpinski Triangle or Snowflake. This is a journal assignment.
• 28 September. We worked Apples and Oranges. This is a journal assignment.

Week 7

• 1 October. We worked Unit Conversions. This is a journal assignment.
• 3 October. We worked Bananas. This is a journal assignment.
• 5 October. We worked Weight, Volume, and Density. This assignment is due on Monday.

Week 8

• 8 October.We worked Archimedes' Principle. This is a journal assignment.
• 10 October. We worked King Kong. This is a journal assignment.
• 12 October. We worked One Third. This assignment is due on Monday. Journals are due next Wednesday, as is the first classroom visitation.

Week 9

• 15 October. We worked Roman Numerals. This is a journal assignment.
• 17 October. We worked Quarters, Nickels, and Pennies. This is a journal assignment.
• 19 October. We worked Base 5 Arithmetic. We will continue with this assignment on Monday.

Week 10

• 22 October. We continued with Base 5 Arithmetic. This assignment is due on Friday.
• 24 October. We worked Base 2. This is a journal assignment.
• 26 October. We worked A Base 2 Game on Friday. This is a journal assignment.

Week 11

• 29 October. We worked Algorithms for Multiplication. This is a journal assignment.
• 31 October. We worked Divisibility Tests. This assignment is due on Monday.
• 2 November. We worked Infinitely Many Primes. This is a journal assignment.

Week 12

• 5 November. We will worked Finding Prime Numbers. This is a journal assignment.
• 7 November. We worked The Muddy Children Puzzle. This is a journal assignment.
• 9 November. We worked Two Triangles Puzzle and/or other puzzles to be passed out in class. This is a journal assignment.

Week 13

• 12 November. We worked Fibonacci Numbers. This is a journal assignment.
• 14 November. We worked Chambered Nautilus. This is a journal assignment.
• 16 November. We worked A Fibonacci Puzzle. This is a journal assignment.

Week 14

• 19 November. We worked The Towers of Hanoi. This assignment is due on 30 November.
• 21 November - 23 November. Thanksgiving Vacation.

Week 15

• 26 November. We worked Grains of Rice. This assignment is due on 3 December.
• 28 November. We worked Operations on Fractions. This is a journal assignment. Only the first four problems are due.
• 30 November. We finished Operations on Fractions and started Number Puzzles. This is a journal assignment. Only the first problem is due. Next week you have a choice of which assignments you want to work. The choices are A Matchstick Puzzle, Instant Insanity, The Sliding Tiles Puzzle, and some of the puzzles listed in the assignment Car Talk Puzzlers. If you want to work non-puzzle oriented assignments, you can instead choose to work The Hilbert Hotel, International Standard Book Numbers or Universal Product Codes.

Week 16

• 3, 5, 7 December.

Finals Week

• Monday 10 December, 8:00 - 10:00 AM. This is the time allocated for the final exam.