MATH 396- Suggested Weekly Schedule

Textbook: The Latex Companion, by Goossens, Mittelbach, and Samarin

Suggested Schedule

• Week 1
  • Latex lecture and exercises I
    
  • Write a 1-2 page paper on why math is useful or important
    Use an audience of readers of Newsweek.
    Pick a term paper topic.
    
• Week 2
  • Ch. 2, Business efficiency (optimal routing)
    
• Week 3
  • Ch. 2, Business efficiency (traveling salesman problem)
    
• Week 4
  • Ch. 3, Planning and Scheduling
    
• Week 5
  • Ch. 3, Planning and Scheduling
    Exam #1
• Week 6
  • Beginning of Ch. 7 (sampling). Then Ch. 5, Exploring Data: Summaries and Plots.
    
• Week 7
  • Ch. 7, Data for decisions: Good and bad sampling methods. Ch. 6.
    
• Week 8
  • Ch. 7, Data for decisions: Good and bad inferences from data.
    
• Week 9
  • SPRING BREAK
    
• Week 10
  • Ch. 16, Identification numbers (bar codes, zip codes)
    
• Week 11
  • Ch. 17, Information Science (binary codes, parity check sums).
    Exam #2
• Weeks 12-13
  • Ch. 17, Cryptography
    
• Weeks 14-15
  • Optional material, to be announced (TBA)
    
  • Comprehensive Final exam.