Syllabus for Math Thought
    Math 120
    Janice Sklensky
    Spring 1999
    last modified 1/30/99

    Monday Wednesday Friday
    2/1
    Class overview
    Intro to voting theory    		 2/3
    Plurality vs Majority
    The Plurality Method
    Fairness    		 2/5
    The Borda Count Method
    2/8
    Answer HW questions
    Plurality w/ Elimination
    Sign up:
    commercial or paper     		2/10
    Pairwise Comparisons    		 2/12
    Arrow's Impossibility Theorem
    vote on issues
    2/15
    Work on Project 1    		 2/17
    Introduce Power    		 2/19
    Banzhaf Power Index
    2/22
    Banzhaf Power Index
    with commercial break    		 2/24
    Banzhaf Power Index
    motivate apportionmentM
    with commercial break
    turn in Project 1    		 2/26
    Ideas & Terminology
    Hamilton's Method
    with commercial break
    3/1
    Hamilton's Method
    with commercial break    		 3/3
    Hamilton's Method
    Jefferson's & Adams' Methods
    Exam Thursday    		 3/5
    Jefferson's & Adams' Methods
    3/8
    Jefferson's & Adams' Methods
    with commercial break    		 3/10
    Webster's Method
    with commercial break    		 3/12
    Huntington-Hill Method
    with commercial break
    3/15
    Spring Break    		 3/17
    Spring Break    		 3/19
    Spring Break
    3/22
    Finish up apportionment
    or start Graph Theory    		 3/24
    Intro to graph theory
    with commercial break    		 3/26
    Terminology
    Existence of Euler Circuits
    commercial break
    3/29
    Fleury's Algorithm
    with commercial break    		 3/31
    Fleury's Algorithm
    Eulerizing
    with commercial break    		 4/2
    More on Euler circuits
    with commercial break
    4/5
    Intro to Hamilton Circuits
    with commercial break    		 4/7
    Brute Force Method
    Nearest Neighbor Method
    with commercial break    		 4/9
    The Repetitive Nearest Neighbor Method
    with commercial break
    4/12
    The Cheapest Link Method
    with commercial break    		 4/14
    More on Hamilton Circuits
    Exam Thursday    		 4/16
    Work on Project 2
    4/19
    Rigid Motions
    with commercial break    		 4/21
    Reflections
    with commercial break    		 4/23
    Rotations
    with commercial break
    4/26
    Translations
    Glide Reflections
    with commercial break
    turn in Project 2    		 4/28
    Classifying symmetry
    with commercial break    		 4/30
    Border Patterns
    with commercial break
    5/3
    Fractals
    with commercial break    		 5/5
    Fractals
    with commercial break    		 5/7
    Fractals
    with commercial break
    5/10
    Last day of class
    Catch up
    Discuss Ch. 9
    with commercial break
    		 5/12
    		 5/14
    May take Final
    today or tomorrow


    Janice Sklensky
    Wheaton College
    Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
    Science Center, Room 109
    Norton, Massachusetts 02766-0930
    TEL (508) 286-3973
    FAX (508) 285-8278
    jsklensk@wheatonma.edu

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