MA310 -- Mathematical Problem Solving for Teachers

Course Information

• Syllabus
• Blackboard at UK
• Notes (Updated often throughout the course)
• Problems (Updated often throughout the course)
• Partitions (Ben Braun's Handout)
• Log of Class Activities

Assignments

• Homework #1
• Homework #2
• Homework #3
• Homework #4
• Exam #1 Review
• Homework #5
• Homework #6
• Exam #2 Review
• Homework #7
  • Credit Card Spreadsheet
• Exam #3
• Wallpaper Example (Not fully labeled)
• Homework #8
• Final Exam Review

Other Resources

• Kid Snippets: Math Class
• How to Solve it
• Car Talk Puzzlers
• Doodling in Math Class: Infinity Elephants
• Car Talk Puzzlers
  • The Maiden and the Three Boxes
• The game of Nim
• National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
  • Coin Problem
  • Towers of Hanoi
  • Stick or Switch
  • Base Blocks Addition
• GeoGebra
  • Secant to a Parabola
  • Circumcircle to a Triangle
  • Matrix Times Vector GeoGebra file
  • Matrix Times Vector App created with GeoGebra
• Jing For making very short videos
  
  
• National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) Principles and Standards for School Mathematics
• Common Core State Standards Initiative
  • Mathematics Standards
  • GeoGebra Quickstart
• WolframAlpha
• The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
• Kruskal Count Card Trick
• Numberphile
  • Dragon Curve
• Careful Counting
• Five Digit Binary Numbers
• Logic Puzzles
• Logic Puzzles from Lewis Carroll
• Project Euler
• London Cab Drivers' Brains
• London Cab Drivers' Brains
• 19 Tone Scale
• Wanna Play? Computer Gamers Help Push Frontier Of Brain Research
• Example of Credit Card Terms
  
  
• Symmetry Images
• Symmetry Notes
• Finite Figure Maker -- Jack Schmidt
• Border Patterns -- Jack Schmidt
• Border Patterns Worksheet -- Jack Schmidt
• Frieze Pattern Classification Flowchart
• Border Pattern Maker
• Wallpaper Patterns -- Dave Bayer
• Farmer's Wallpaper Pattern Flow Chart
• Wallpaper Symmetry Images
• Kali Pattern Maker
• Jack Schmidt's Practice Exam
• Some Other Links
  • Frieze Patterns -- Illuminations
  • Frieze Patterns from MathDL
  • Strip Patterns
  • Wallpaper Patterns
• GoodQuestions Project
  • Good Questions