SMTE 1350: Fundamentals of Math I
Fall 2012

Tuesday-Thursday Section

Date
Tuesday
Thursday

23 Aug

Before you come to class on Thursday,
please do the following:

READ: NCTM & TEKS
PRINT: and complete information sheet 
and research consent form

Introduction
Game of NIM
Pre-test

READ: Polya's problem solving steps
HW: Mathematical me

28-30 Aug

Problem solving & table presentations

READ: Tower of Hanoi

HW: Problem solving journal

Patterns in numbers: Tower of Hanoi

READ: Gauss and figurate numbers
HW:
Tower of Hanoi journal

28/30 Aug

Patterns in shape: Figurate numbers &
table presentations
Choose number presentations

READ: Fibonacci bunnies
HW:
Shape journal

Patterns in nature: Fibonacci sequence

READ:
Sequences -- sort by types

READ: Polya's problem
solving steps

4-6 Sep
Sequences & notetaking
Arithmetic, geometric, and other sequences

READ: Counting
READ:
journal articles for group
discussion

HW:
Sequence worksheet

Counting
Counting models
Journal article group discussions

READ: Other number systems
VIDEO: watch #4 Place-value centers

6-8 Sep

Base 10 number system
Other number systems
Base five numbers
Base 10 models

READ: Zero the hero
HW:
Base ten models

Real number system
Foldable
Quiz #1 (sequences)

HW: Real number worksheet
 

11-13 Sep

Class presentations
Babylonian, Egyptian, Mayan, Incan,
Roman, Yoruban

Class presentations
Chinese, Stick/rods, Hawaiian, Binary, Hexadecimal, Duodecimal

READ: Operations  
18-20 Sep

Operations
Binary and inverse operations
Alternative addition video

READ: Addition & subtraction models

Addition & subtraction

READ: Multiplication models
HW: Addition & subtraction models

25-27 Sep

Multiplication
Napier's bones &lattice multiplication
Russian peasant multiplication

READ: Division models
HW:
Multiplication model

Division

HW: Division model

2-4 Oct

Family Math Night
Information about preparing for FMN
QUIZ #2 (base 5, operations, real number
system)

READ: Properties

9-11 Oct

Properties of the real number system

READ: Divisibility rules

Divisibility rules
Factors & multiples
Factor worksheet


HW:
Color your Sieve of Eratosthenes

16-18 Oct
Prime numbers
Prime factorization
FTA

HW:
Prime worksheet
GCF & LCM

READ: Integer models
HW:
GCF-LCM worksheet
23-25 Oct
Integers
Videos

HW: Integers worksheet
Quiz #3

HW:
Fraction chart
30 Oct-1 Nov

Rational numbers
Fractions
Fraction chart model

Dress rehearsal for FMN

Egg fraction model

HW: Egg model worksheet
HW: B
ring fraction cards to class next week

6-8 Nov

Fraction tower model
Pattern blocks model

HW: Pattern block worksheet

Equivalent fractions
Secret agent ONE
Ordering fractions
Denseness property

Fraction addition & subtraction
HW: Practice worksheet

HW: Practice worksheet
13-15 Nov

Fraction multiplication
Area model

HW: Multiplication worksheet

Fraction division
Measurement model

Quiz #4 (fraction mastery)

HW: Division worksheet

20 Nov
 

 

Thanksgiving holiday

27-29 Nov
   
4 Dec

Review for final exam
Online review sheet

FINAL EXAMS:
8-14 December