MATH 105 Math for Modern Society
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Syllabus

• Section 003
• Sections 2A1 and 2B1

Readings and Practice Exercises

Handouts

Assignments

Extra Help

Advice to Students

Rules of Engagement

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Handouts used during course meetings are posted on this page.  Handouts may be revised or additional handouts may be posted during the semester.

• Renard's Letter

• Problem Solving:  Coffee and Milk???

• Problem Solving: Thought, Observation, and Calculation

• Problem Solving: Books and a Worm

• Problem Solving:  Riddles

• Problem Solving:  Pancake and Pizza

• Problem Solving:  Putting It All Together

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• Magic Squares

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• Unit Conversion - Kentucky Derby

• Unit Conversion - Kentucky Derby Revisited

• Unit Conversion - Boston Marathon

• More Conversions

• Some More Unit Conversions

• Estimating Quantities

• Boston Celtics Team Payroll 2015-2016

• Boston Celtics Team Payroll 2017-2018

• Boston Red Sox Team Payroll 2016

• Powers of 10 and Scientific Notation

• Traveling around the Equator of the Earth

• Distances across the United States

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• Mammal Data

• Frequency Distribution:  Distance from Home to Place of Work

• Frequency Distributions

• Measures of Center and Spread

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• Sequences and Patterns

• Some Basic Sums

• Sums

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• Percentages

• Percentage Change

• Percentage Change:  Massachusetts State Sales Tax Rate

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• Finance Formulas (single letter variables; all formulas derived and discussed during class)

• Simple and Compound Interest

• Finance

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• Basic Probability

• Probability - Pair of Fair Dice

• Probability - Cards and Dice

• Probability - The Titanic

• Conditional Probability

• Probability Distributions and Expected Value

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• Basic Counting

• More Counting

• Counting - Card Hands

Please remember that your questions are important to me, I want to help you to do well in the course, and there is no such thing as a stupid question.

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