K-5 Planning -- Summer 2019
Prof. Richard Blecksmith
Watson Hall 364
phone: 815-753-6762
email: richard@math.niu.edu
Week 1
Monday
Binary Numbers and Error Correcting Codes
Tuesday
Wednesday
Clock Arithmetic and Secret Codes
Thursday
Authentic Task: The Construction Problem
The Banzhaf Voting Power Index
Week 2
Monday
Mathematical Rigor: An Elementary Approach to Primes
Tuesday
Exploring Fractions I. Mediants and Victoria's Theorem
Wednesday
Exploring Fractions II. Contiguous Fractions and the Farey Sequence
Thursday
Sqrt 2 and Fermat's Method of Descent
To Infinity and Beyond: Dividing by 0