MATH 102-Additional Notes and Files

Section 008, Spring 2016

Additional Notes and Files

I will post any useful or interesting additional information on this page. The most recent links will always be at the top of the page. If you find anything you think would be appropriate, let me know: if I agree, I will post it here.

04/28
  1. Here is the Youtube video on the five stages of sleep for Lesson 8.4.
04/26
  1. Here is an Excel spreadsheet on loan payments that we will use in Lesson 8.3 to compute total payments and total interest on car loans.
04/21
  1. Here is the article on Berlin’s debt to Mittenwalde used in PNL 8.1.
  2. Here is an Excel spreadsheet on the debt that we will use in Lesson 8.2.
04/19
  1. Here is the article on obesity used in PNL 7.7. If you are interested in learning more, you can also read the original RAND study from 2012.
  2. Here is an Excel spreadsheet with height and weight data for selected athletes. (Add your own favourite athletes to the list!)
04/12
  1. I found two sites which give median house prices over time for Milwaukee and the United States. The data for
    January of each year from 2000 to 2016 are summarized in this Excel file.
04/07
  1. Here is an Excel file for the Tetracycline elimination problem in OCE 7.2.
    You should play with this file, changing the percent eliminated each hour and seeing how this affects the amount left after 8 hours, until you find the elimination rate that corresponds to a half life of 8 hours.
03/31
  1. Here are links to some of the articles and websites referred to in Lesson 7.4:
  2. Here is a spreadsheet with the obesity data on men and cats from Lesson 7.4.
03/30
  1. Lakethia Coleman found an interesting and informative 4-minute video on the Standards for Mathematical Practice. (Thanks, Lakethia!)
    By the way, the two speakers in the video are two of the lead authors of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, which include both content and practice standards (and which have been adopted by Wisconsin as our state standards). There are several other videos on the Hunt Institute website, if you want to explore further.
03/23
  1. Here is the Entergy data spreadsheet, we used in Lesson 7.2.
03/20
  1. Here is a link to the article, How US News Calculated the 2016 Best Colleges Rankings, from PNL 6.9.
03/20
  1. Following up on our discussion from Lesson 6.9, it is probably worth observing that women earn more doctoral degrees than men, and outnumber men in graduate school, but that only a small minority of top business executives are female. (Thanks to Chris DuCanto for these links.)
03/08
  1. Here is the article from the Notices of the American Mathematical Society referred to in Lesson 6.9: Debunking Myths about Gender and Mathematics Performance, by Jonathan Kane and Janet Mertz.
  2. Here is the Excel spreadsheet of July temperature data for Nome, Tarpon Springs, and Milwaukee.
03/03
  1. Here is a copy of the Chicago Tribune article on U.S. temperatures in 2012.
  2. Here is the Excel spreadsheet of July temperature data for Nome, Tarpon Springs, and Milwaukee.
02/23
  1. Here are two versions of the Excel file of homelessness data that we used in Lesson 6.3: one with data only (no charts), and one with charts.
02/18
  1. Here is the Excel file of gasoline prices we used in Lesson 6.2.
02/11
  1. Here is the TED video you need to watch in preparation for today’s class: Rob Reid: The $8 billion iPod.
02/09
  1. Here are links to the readings for today’s class (Lessons 5.7 and 5.8):
02/02
  1. Here are the maps of Texas in the Pacific Ocean that we used in Lesson 5.3.
01/26
  1. Here is an expanded description of our 8 course goals (the Standards for Mathematical Practice from the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics):
    CCSSM Practice Standards.
01/26
  1. Here is a printable sheet of graph paper. (You can find many sites that will allow you to customize your own graph paper by Googling “downloadable graph paper”.)