Professor Poirier | D710 | Fall 2024

Category: Course Activities (Page 1 of 22)

Week 13 checklist

Monday, November 25 to Sunday, December 1

Lesson

  • 5.2 The Matrix of a Linear Transformation I (Part 2)
  • 5.3 Properties of Linear Transformations (Composition of Transformations)

WeBWorK

  • Introduction to Linear Transformations

OpenLab

  • Native American History Month mathematician profile (comment, instructions)
  • Test #3 review part 2 (post, instructions)
  • Use the long weekend to catch up on any old OpenLab assignments that you have missed; all assignments are linked from the weekly checklists

Other

  • Complete the student evaluations of teaching by Friday, 12/13 (check Brightspace and email)

Test #3 review part 2

Post due Sunday, December 1

Just like for your Test #1 and Test #2 activity, you will choose a Test #3 review problem to solve and share your solution on the OpenLab.

Test #3 is scheduled for Monday, December 2. As a class, you will create a review sheet here on the OpenLab. Each student will solve one problem and post their full solution on the OpenLab. You may take a photo of your hand-written work and place it directly in your post, or you may upload it to Dropbox or Google drive (or some other file-sharing platform) and copy-paste the link to your photo in your OpenLab post.

Topics:

  • Sections 4.8, 4.9, 4.10, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 (note: you may need some material that was covered on Test #1 or Test #2 as well)
  • Make sure all the topics are represented; don’t solve a problem that one of your classmates has already posted the solution for.

Resources: choose one problem to solve from:

Your post must include:

  1. Where you found the problem (for example, “textbook homework exercise 4.4.1”)
  2. Your complete solution, showing all your work
  3. Title: Test #3 Review
  4. Category: Test #3 Review

OpenLab assignment: Native American Heritage Month Mathematician Profile

Due Monday, December 1

Animated gif saying "Native American Heritage Month"

November is Native American Heritage month! This assignment is similar to the one you completed for Hispanic Heritage Month. This time, you will profile an indigenous mathematician in a comment on this post.

The website indigenousmathematicians.org includes profiles of several indigenous mathematicians, many of them belonging to first nations of what is now known as North/Central/South America. (The website includes profiles of mathematicians belonging to first nations in other parts of the world; while this assignment is to celebrate Native American Heritage Month, if you find an indigenous mathematician from another part of the world and you’d like to profile them, go ahead.)

  1. Scroll to the map or click on “profiles” or “honorees” to see a list of indigenous mathematicians.
  2. Choose one mathematician you’d like to profile. Read their profile on the indigeneous mathematicians webpage.
  3. See what else you can find out about the mathematician you chose. Many mathematicians have personal/academic webpages that include information that might not be in their profile. Try googling their name + “math.”

Your comment should include

  1. The mathematician’s name and tribal/nation affiliation (if available).
  2. Where they are now (most of them probably have a job at a university).
  3. What field of math they do research in or a title of a recent research paper they published.
  4. Any other interesting biographical details you can find out about them.
  5. What made this person stand out to you.
  6. A photograph of them (optional).

Feel free to use other websites as resources for finding out about indigenous mathematicians! Include any relevant links in your comment.

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