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Welcome to MCC 130Math in the Social Sciences |
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Spring Semester 2005
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Class
Policies
Text: Excursions in Modern Mathematics by Tannenbaum (5th Edition) ISBN 0-13-100191-4
Some supplementary materials are available at the text's companion website.
Worksheets: Available at either the campus bookstore or Copy Rite (2nd floor of the library)
Course Coordinator: Dr. Holger Kley contact: kley@math.colostate.edu
Instructors: Ms. Hilary Spriggs (spriggs@math.colostate.edu) Sections 001 (Meets TR 8) and 002 (Meets TR 3) and
Ms. Mary Pilgrim (pilgrim@math.colostate.edu) Section 003 (Meets TR 3)
Grading Criteria:
Worksheets:
Worksheets will be done in groups of 2-4 people during the lab hours. They will be assigned during the lecture hour and will be due, the same day, at the end of the lab hour. Each person in the group must submit the assigned worksheets. They will be stapled together, but only the top one will be graded. Please put each group name on the front set that will be graded. Each worksheet will be graded out of 5 points. They must be legible and handed in on time or your lab assistant cannot accept them. Late worksheets will receive credit only under exceptional circumstances, and must be handed to the instructor for such consideration. The worksheets will be graded daily by your assigned lab assistant. Worksheets 1, 2 and 3 may be handed in until January 20th without penalty.
Participation
Your lab assistant will assess this in labs; for each worksheet you submit, you will receive either 0, 1, or 2 participation points.
Quizzes:
Each Tuesday of a non-exam week, your lab assistant will administer a brief (10 minute) quiz which will be directly based on a short list of homework problems from the text covering material from the previous week of class.
Homework:
A short list of homework problems related to the material covered each week is provided. Although the problems will not be collected, it is in your best interest to do them, as the weekly quizzes (see above) will be based directly on them. Furthermore, some exam problems will relate to the homework assignments.
Exams:
There will be three in-class exams (each worth 100 points). They will cover material from class notes, the book, worksheets, and homework assignments. The exams will be multiple choice, and each will have 24 questions. The exam dates are:
Exam 1 - February 8 A practice exam is available; choose interactive version or pdf version.
Exam 2 - March 10 A practice exam is available.
Exam 3 - April 12 A practice exam is available.
Note that practice exams may have fewer than 24 questions.
Final:
There will be a comprehensive, two-hour final exam. A practice final is available; please note that the actual exam will have 48 questions.
Section 001 (TR8) - Thursday, May 12, 9:10--11:10 am
Sections 002, 003 (TR3) - Wednesday, May 11, 5:50--7:50 pm
You may NOT arrange to take the final early or late; see Make-Up Exam Policy.
Honesty Policy:
Exams must be completed individually. No group work or outside assistance is allowed. Any student found to have engaged in academic dishonesty (i.e. cheating. in any form, on an exam) will receive a zero on the exam and be subject to further University disciplinary action.
Make-Up Exam Policy:
Exams will be taken on the scheduled dates and times. If there exists a conflict due to a school-sponsored event, notify your instructor (by e-mail) a minimum of one week in advance of the exam to schedule a make-up time. If there is an extreme, unforeseen emergency on the day of the exam (e.g., illness requiring a doctor's visit, death in the family, etc.) contact your instructor (by telephone or e-mail) within 24 hours of the scheduled exam. If you are unable to reach your instructor, please leave a message with the mathematics office: 491-1303. You must provide WRITTEN DOCUMENTATION of your university-sponsored event or unforseen emergency before you can take a make-up exam. Attempts to subvert this policy, e.g., by claiming a death in your family which did not, in fact, occur, is considered academic dishonesty; please see above. The course coordinator, if necessary, will make final decisions about make-up exams.
ADA Statement:
The Americans with Disabilities Act requires that reasonable accomodations be made for students with disabilities. If you need such assistance, please contact your instructor as soon as possible.
Overrides:
Neither the instructors nor the course coordinator are authorized to give an override into the course. If you have an extreme issue and need to take the course (i.e. graduating senior etc.) please talk to the associate chair of the mathematics department, Dr. Jim Thomas; His office is located in Weber 101.
Text: Excursions in Modern Mathematics by Tannenbaum (5th Edition) ISBN 0-13-100191-4
Some supplementary materials are available at the text's companion website.
Worksheets: Available at either the campus bookstore or Copy Rite (2nd floor of the library)
Course Coordinator: Dr. Holger Kley contact: kley@math.colostate.edu
Instructors: Ms. Hilary Spriggs (spriggs@math.colostate.edu) Sections 001 (Meets TR 8) and 002 (Meets TR 3) and
Ms. Mary Pilgrim (pilgrim@math.colostate.edu) Section 003 (Meets TR 3)
Grading Criteria:
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Worksheets:
Worksheets will be done in groups of 2-4 people during the lab hours. They will be assigned during the lecture hour and will be due, the same day, at the end of the lab hour. Each person in the group must submit the assigned worksheets. They will be stapled together, but only the top one will be graded. Please put each group name on the front set that will be graded. Each worksheet will be graded out of 5 points. They must be legible and handed in on time or your lab assistant cannot accept them. Late worksheets will receive credit only under exceptional circumstances, and must be handed to the instructor for such consideration. The worksheets will be graded daily by your assigned lab assistant. Worksheets 1, 2 and 3 may be handed in until January 20th without penalty.
Participation
Your lab assistant will assess this in labs; for each worksheet you submit, you will receive either 0, 1, or 2 participation points.
Quizzes:
Each Tuesday of a non-exam week, your lab assistant will administer a brief (10 minute) quiz which will be directly based on a short list of homework problems from the text covering material from the previous week of class.
Homework:
A short list of homework problems related to the material covered each week is provided. Although the problems will not be collected, it is in your best interest to do them, as the weekly quizzes (see above) will be based directly on them. Furthermore, some exam problems will relate to the homework assignments.
Exams:
There will be three in-class exams (each worth 100 points). They will cover material from class notes, the book, worksheets, and homework assignments. The exams will be multiple choice, and each will have 24 questions. The exam dates are:
Exam 1 - February 8 A practice exam is available; choose interactive version or pdf version.
Exam 2 - March 10 A practice exam is available.
Exam 3 - April 12 A practice exam is available.
Note that practice exams may have fewer than 24 questions.
Final:
There will be a comprehensive, two-hour final exam. A practice final is available; please note that the actual exam will have 48 questions.
Section 001 (TR8) - Thursday, May 12, 9:10--11:10 am
Sections 002, 003 (TR3) - Wednesday, May 11, 5:50--7:50 pm
You may NOT arrange to take the final early or late; see Make-Up Exam Policy.
Honesty Policy:
Exams must be completed individually. No group work or outside assistance is allowed. Any student found to have engaged in academic dishonesty (i.e. cheating. in any form, on an exam) will receive a zero on the exam and be subject to further University disciplinary action.
Make-Up Exam Policy:
Exams will be taken on the scheduled dates and times. If there exists a conflict due to a school-sponsored event, notify your instructor (by e-mail) a minimum of one week in advance of the exam to schedule a make-up time. If there is an extreme, unforeseen emergency on the day of the exam (e.g., illness requiring a doctor's visit, death in the family, etc.) contact your instructor (by telephone or e-mail) within 24 hours of the scheduled exam. If you are unable to reach your instructor, please leave a message with the mathematics office: 491-1303. You must provide WRITTEN DOCUMENTATION of your university-sponsored event or unforseen emergency before you can take a make-up exam. Attempts to subvert this policy, e.g., by claiming a death in your family which did not, in fact, occur, is considered academic dishonesty; please see above. The course coordinator, if necessary, will make final decisions about make-up exams.
ADA Statement:
The Americans with Disabilities Act requires that reasonable accomodations be made for students with disabilities. If you need such assistance, please contact your instructor as soon as possible.
Overrides:
Neither the instructors nor the course coordinator are authorized to give an override into the course. If you have an extreme issue and need to take the course (i.e. graduating senior etc.) please talk to the associate chair of the mathematics department, Dr. Jim Thomas; His office is located in Weber 101.
Schedule
| Week
1 |
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| January 18 |
Read Sections 1.1-1.2 in the
text; WS #1- Plurality with Preference Ballots |
| January 20 |
Read Sections 1.3-1.4; WS #2- Borda Count, WS #3- Plurality with Elimination; Organizing lab break-outs |
| Week
2 |
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| January 25 |
Read 1.5; WS #4-
Pairwise Comparisons; Quiz
1 |
| January 27 |
Read 1.6 and Chapter 1
Conclusion; WS #5- Repeated Election, WS #6- Rankings WS #7- Fairness
Criteria |
| Week
3 |
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| February 1 |
Read 2.1-2.3; WS
#8- Weighted Voting, WS #9- Banzhaf I; Quiz 2 |
| February 3 |
Read 2.4-2.5; WS
#10- Banzhaf II, WS #11- Shapley-Shubik |
| Week
4 |
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| February 8 |
Review for Exam ; Exam 1 covering chapters 1 and 2, worksheets 1-11. Practice exam: interactive version or pdf version. Please note that the actual exam will have 24 questions |
| February 10 |
Read 3.7; WS #14- Method of
Markers |
| Week
5 |
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| February 15 |
Read 3.6; WS #12- Sealed Bids I,
WS #13- Sealed Bids II; Quiz 3 |
| February 17 |
Read 4.1-4.4, 4.6; WS #15-
Hamiliton's Method, WS #16 Lownde's Method |
| Week
6 |
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| February 22 |
Read 4.5-4.6; WS
#17- Jefferson's Method, WS #19- Overview; Quiz 4 |
| February 24 |
Read 5.1-5.3; WS
#20- Graphs, WS #21 Graph Modeling |
| Week
7 |
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| March 1 |
Read 5.4-5.5; WS
#25- The Rumor Mill, WS #24- The Postal Problem; Quiz 5 |
| March 3 |
Read 5.6; WS #27-Fleury Worksheet |
| Week
8 |
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| March 8 |
Read 5.7; WS #26- Euler Circuits |
| March 10 |
Exam 2 covering chapters 3,4, and 5, worksheets 12-17,19-21,24-27 Practice Exam Please note that the actual exam will have 24 questions |
| Week
9 |
****March
21 -- Last Day to W-Drop **** |
| March 22 |
Read 6.1-6.3; WS
#28- Hamilton Circuits, WS #29- Traveling Salesman Problem |
| March 24 |
Read 6.4-6.8; WS
#30- Nearest Neighbor, WS #31- Cheapest Link |
| Week
10 |
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| March 29 |
Read 7.1-7.3; WS
#32- Trees, WS #33- Minimum Spanning Trees; Quiz 6 |
| March 31 |
Read 8.1-8.2; WS
#34- Project Digraphs, WS #35- Precedents in Project Digraphs |
| Week
11 |
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| April 5 |
Read 8.3-8.4; WS
#36 List Processing; Quiz 7 |
| April 7 |
Read 8.5-8.6; WS
#37- Critical Paths, WS #38- Finding a Good Priority List |
| Week
12 |
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| April 12 |
Exam 3 covering chapters 6,7, and 8, worksheets 28-38 Practice Exam Please note that the actual exam will have 24 questions |
| April 14 |
Read 9.1; WS #54- Fibonacci
Numbers, WS #55- Honey Bees |
| Week
13 |
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| April 19 |
Read 9.2 and pages 371-373; WS
#56- Fibonacci Numbers, WS #57- The Golden Ratio; Quiz 8 |
| April 21 |
Read 15.1-15.2,15.4; WS #47-
Probabilities, WS #50- Multiplication Rule |
| Week
14 |
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| April 26 |
Read 15.5-15.7; WS #48- What
Chance Have You Got?, WS #49- Cars and Dogs; Quiz 9 |
| April 28 |
Read 16.1-16.2; WS #53- Normal
Distribution, WS #52- Expectations II |
| Week
15 |
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| May 3 |
Instructor Option; Quiz
10 |
| May 5 |
Review for Final. |
| Finals Week |
A practice
final is available; please note that the actual exam will
have
only 48 questions. |
| May 11 |
Sections 002 and 003 (TR 3) Final Exam, 5:50--7:50 pm. |
| May 12 |
Section 001 (TR 8) Final
Exam, 9:10--11:10 am. |
Homework
| For
Exam 1 |
For
Exam 2 |
For
Exam 3 |
For
Final |
| Week 1: Chapter 1:
#10,20a,25,33a |
Week 5: Chapter 3 #40,51 and
Chapter 4 #14 |
Week 9: Chapter 6 #29,41,49 |
Week 13: chapter
9 #1,4,27a,29 |
| Week 2: Chapter 1:
#20b,c;50,52 |
Week 6: Chapter 4 #19 and
Chapter 5 #5,15 |
Week 10: Chapter
7 #1,22 and Chapter 8 #12,21 |
Week 14: Chapter
15 #1b,2b,8,14,17,42,50 |
| Week 3: Chapter 2:
#6,15,29a,c;44 |
Week 7: Chapter 5 #19,20,22 |
Week 11: Chapter
8 #33,34,37,50a,b,c |
Week 15: To be announced |
| Week 4: Exam Week - No new
homework |
Week 8: Chapter 5 #41 |
Week 12: Exam Week - No new
homework |
Week 16: Final Exam |