Cedars Math:Handouts

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General Skills

Python Coding

• 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 Skills

• Handout on writing emails

Using LaTeX to Write Equations and Symbols

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

Chapters 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.

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Chapters 2 and 3: Fractions

• "Handout: Adding Fractions".

• Proofs without Words of three infinite sums.

• "Homework: Things to Study"

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Chapters 4, 5, and 6

• 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: Syllogisms

• Handout: Death Rates

• Units to Memorize

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Chapter 8, Geometry

• 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

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

• "I will stay on task" monster