Spring 2003

MA404 Schedule:

 
  Tuesdays Thursdays
Week 1: Jan 14, 16 Intro, e-mail, homepages (DH) homepages
Week 2. Jan 21,23 ...go to Monday classes... Excel-grades
Week 3: Jan 28,30 Excel-finance Sketchpad-intro
Week 4: Feb 4,6 Sketchpad-samples Sketchpad- samples, scripts, algebra
Week 5: Feb 11,13 Minitab Graphing Calculators- basics, regression, and statistics (DH)
Week 6: Feb 18, 20 Graphing Calculators (DH) Graphing Calculators (DH)
Week 7: Feb 25,27 Scott's project- derivatives, integrals and matrices on calculators Raymond's project-Little Menu (macros)
Week 8: Mar 4,6 tba Vacation
Week 9: Mar 11, 13 Vacation Vacation
Week 10: Mar 18, 20 April's project- Excel graphs Ed's projects- Power point
Week 11: Mar 25, 27 Courtney's project-TI and USB Jennifer's project-charts and graphs
Week 12: Apr 1, 3 Elizabeth's project... Tom's project- Visual Basic
Week 13: Apr 8, 10 Jackie's project- graphs on calculators Mike's project- Access
Week 14: Apr 15, 17 Amy's project... Chuck's project...
Week 15: Apr 22, 24 Nicole's project... Ronald's project- Mathcad
Week 16: Apr 29, May 1 tba Calculator exam (in Doucette)
Week 17: May 6, 8 Computer exam pt 1 Computer exam pt 2

Notes:

1. E-mail me asap to reserve a date and topic for your student project.

2. Some ideas for student projects: Mathcad, Access, Minitab, Powerpoint, Excel, Webpages, Internet, Sketchpad, C++, Photoshop, Graphing calculators,...

3. My choice of topics for weeks 2-6 and 14-16 will be determined based on what topics are taken by the student projects. Actual details/ topics will be updated weekly and can be found on my webpage: users.edinboro.edu/quinna/ma404.html

4. Two open-book hands-on exams will be given during the last two weeks of class, one on computers and one on everything else (mainly calculators).