Cedars Math:Handouts

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General Skills

Python Coding

• Handout: "Python Commands"--learning basic commands.

• Handout: "Python Basics", an easy problem set.

• "Fibonacci Homework Answers".

• Handout: "Fibonacci Coding", with diagram plotting

• Handout: "Notes on Installing Anaconda Python"

• HW 2.4b supplement: Plotting Functions with Python

• I've written up a handout of some Python code for testing divisibility by 2,3,5, and 7.

• The Python code by Professor Connell to test the Polya Conjecture.

• Handout: Email Filtering Python code with If-Else statements

• Python and Fortran code for estimating square roots

Miscellaneous

• "When Everyone Is Somebody Then No One's Anybody" lyrics and performance video

• Handout on writing emails

• Handout: Syllogisms

• CLT tests: Fall 2018 questions and Fall 2018 answers and Spring 2021 questions.

• Psychology tweet: the mind filling in color gaps (2022).

Numbers

• Cleveland Design on the Fibonacci Sequence

Using LaTeX to Write Equations and Symbols

• "Notes on LaTeX"

• Handout: Rotating Symbols in Latex, and How to Find A Computer Command You Don't Know.

Proofs

• The "All Odd Numbers Are Prime" joke and the joke script and the Python code by Professor Connell to test the Polya Conjecture.

• Proofs without Words of three infinite sums.

• Euclid's Proof That the Square Root of Two Is Irrational

Chapter 1: Integers

• Sparking Joy in Multiplication

• "How to Solve It: Ways to Compute 5x15"

• The "All Odd Numbers Are Prime" joke and the joke script and the Python code by Professor Connell to test the Polya Conjecture.

• Handout: The "All Numbers Are Interesting" joke.

• Handout on Euclid's proof.

• [1] Defining New Kinds of Exponents]

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Chapters 2 and 3: Fractions

• "Handout: Adding Fractions".

• Twitter: Pi and the Prime Numbers

• "Homework: Things to Study"

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Chapters 4, 5, and 6: Rates, Proportions, and Percentages

• Handout: The Six Foot Eleven Puzzle

• Handout: Puzzle Decimalization Shillings

• Handout: Order Notation and Intervals

• Handout: Cats and Rats Puzzle

• Handout: For Test Three

• Handout: Death Rates

• Units to Memorize

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Chapter 8, Geometry

• Prefaces to Euclid's Elements in the first English translation (1570).

• The Vertical Angle Theorem

• The Poe Pi Poem and the Pythagorean Theorem Joke

• Shooting the Bird from the Mahabharata.

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Chapter 9, Algebra

• Python and Fortran code for estimating square roots

• Guest Teacher Jeffrey Sagarin photo with students

• The Pythagorean Theorem of Baseball

• "I will stay on task" monster

9x--Plotting Graphs

• HW 2.4b supplement: Plotting Functions with Python

Chapter 10--Statistics

• Python homework on rolling dice and plotting histograms of the results

• Python homework on median, mode, mean, histograms