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Week 2: Ancient Mathematics (Subject to slight changes which will be announced in tutorial and via email.)
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9/6
Tuesday
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- Kaplan, Ch. 3
- CWR, Section 20, Oral presentations, p. 132-139
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Go to Erik Simpson's 2004 tutorial web page and scroll down to Tuesday, September 7. Complete the calendar assignment under everyone, and bring a printout to class.
Many of you will need to reconfigure your first academic honesty exercise, the block quotation from Chapter 2 of Kaplan. The block quotation needs to be cited correctly in the MLA style found in Section 54 of your CWR. Please email me your corrected assignments by 8:00 a.m., Thursday, 9/8. DO NOT revise your writing; just fix the citation.
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Class 9/6
- Class discussion: Academic honesty exercise #1---Kaplan block quotation
- Class discussion: Our calendars
- Class discussion: What makes an oral presentation good? (We will prepare a rubric similar to our paragraph rubric.)
- Class discussion (if time): Kaplan, Ch. 3
- 9:20 - 9:50: Group A meets with Karen to talk about its oral presentation and discussion.
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9/8
Thursday
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- Kaplan, Ch. 4 (Eastward)
- Seife, Ch. 2, p. 51-52 (Note: this is a change from the original assignment, p. 40-45, which is on Zeno's paradoxes!!!)
- Clegg, Ch. 4, p. 33-46 (The Power of Number)
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Group A presents.
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Class 9/8
- 8:00 - 8:20: Group A will give an oral presentation on Aristotle's The Sand Reckoner (5 - 7 minutes)
- 8:20 - 8:30: Reflection on oral presentation
- 8:20 - 9:00: Group A will lead a class discussion on large numbers.
- 9:10 - 9:20: Loose ends
- 9:20 - 9:50: Group B meets with Karen to talk about its oral presentation and discussion.
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