• This schedule is tentative and will be updated during the semester.  Check back often.
  
• Notice that the date of the final had been marked incorrectly on here - it is now correctly marked on Monday, December 12.
  
• Read the section and try the C problems before the class for which the section is scheduled.  Come prepared to discuss the section and to work problems in a group in class.  Bring a list of any questions that arose.  See the suggestions for effective reading at the bottom of this page.
  
• Homework marked T is to be turned in when it is marked due.  10% of your grade on each assignment will be based on applying the writing guidelines for that assignment and bonus points may be given for exceptional writing and presentation.
• Homework marked C will sometimes be collected in class and will be graded solely on effort.
  
• You are encouraged to work additional problems in each section on your own.
  

Last update: Monday, December 5, 2005

Monday	Wednesday	Friday
8/22  1.1	8/24 1.1 C: 1.1.1 T: 1.1.2	8/26  1.2 C: 1.2.1, 1.2.3 T: 1.2.4, 1.3.2
8/29 1.3, 1.4 C: 1.3.3 T: 1.3.2 HW 1 Due C: 1.2.3, 1.3.3 T: 1.1.2, 1.2.4, 1.3.2	8/31 1.4, 1.5 T: 1.4.1, 1.4.2 (1.4.3)	9/2  2.1 Meet in PS 324 C: 2.1.1 T:  Handout 20, 22, 12d,e,f, 14a,b,c
9/5 No Class	9/7  2.1 Meet in PS 324 C: Handout 2, 4 T: 2.2.1, 2.2.2 HW 2 Due T: 1.4.1, 1.4.2, Handout: 20, 22, 12d,e,f, 14a,b,c	9/9  2.3 Meet in PS 324 C: 2.3.1, Handout 6 T:  2.3.2, Handout 3, 7, 9
9/12   2.3 Meet in PS 324	9/14 2.4 Meet in PS 324 C: Handout 23, 26, Table of properties of rigid motions	9/16  Combining reflections HW 4 Due T: 2.2.2, 2.3.1, 2.3.2, 2.4.1 Handout: 3, 7, 9, 24, 25
9/19  Combining translations, rotations and glide reflections C:	9/21 HW 5 Due T:  2.5.1, 2.5.3, Properties of rigid motions table Combining Motions Handout I	9/23 Review prior homework in pairs
9/26  EXAM 1	9/28  3.1 C: 3.1.1,3.1.2	9/30  3.2 Read Hargittai Intro, Sec. I T: 3.1.3, 3.1.5, 3.1.6
10/3  3.2, read Hargittai IV, V C: 3.2.1, 3.2.2 HW 6 Due T:  3.1.3, 3.1.5, 3.1.6 Q1, Q2, Q3 on readings	10/5  3.2, read Bunch Ch. 1 T: 3.2.5, 3.2.6, Q4, Q5, Q6 on readings	10/7  3.2 C: 3.2.8 T: 3.2.10 and 3.2.11 for pentagon and hexagon
10/10  3.2 HW 7 Due T:  3.2.5, 3.2.6, 3.2.10, 3.2.11 Q4, Q5, Q6 on readings	10/12  3.3, 3.4 C: Finish 3.2.14 T: 3.3.1, 3.3.2	10/14  3.5 read Hargittai II, VII T: 3.4.1, 3.4.2, 3.4.3, 3.5.2
10/17  4.1 HW 8 Due T:  3.3.1, 3.3.2, 3.4.1, 3.4.2, 3.4.3, 3.5.2	10/19  4.1	10/21 4.2 C: 4.1.5
10/24  4.2 All prior corrections due	10/26  EXAM 2	10/28
10/31  Begin reading about tessellations here Exam 2 Corrections due	11/2  Continue reading about tessellations here Read Rosen (Foreword, Preface, Chapters 1 and 2, Group Theory section optional) Read Math and Art	11/4  Questions Q1-Q5 on Rosen
11/7 Read article on Celtic knotwork Read pages 28-46 in Rosen (group theory sections optional)	11/9 Guest Lecture - Celtic Art Paula Jull Read article on Celtic knotwork T: Q1-Q5, Complete table of basic units	11/11  Read Chapter 3 in Bunch Read article on architecture
11/14 Guest Lecture - Architecture Cheryl Hanson Read article on architecture Link to presentation (Warning! - quite large) Outline and references due	11/16  Biology Read Chapter 2 in Bunch Read article on biology	11/18 Guest Lecture - Symmetry in Biology Dr. Peter Murphy Read Chapter 2 in Bunch Read article on biology
11/21 No Class	11/23 No Class	11/25 No Class
11/28 Make and bring 3-d regular solids Rough draft of project due	11/30  Read Hargittai VIII, IX, XV	12/2  Guest Lecture - Mineralogy Dr. Michael McCurry
12/5 Building Zometool models	12/7  Read Chapter 5 in Rosen and p. 91-97 in Bunch Feynman video - Symmetry and the Physical Law	12/9  Final draft of project due Kristi's presentation Review for Final BRING QUESTIONS!
12/12 FINAL, 10:00am-12:00pm, Cumulative

Suggestions for effective reading
Reading a mathematics text effectively requires effort and practice.  You should:

• Read productively.  Have a pen or pencil and paper ready to use.  As you read, write down all questions you have, observations you make, and examples or computations you work out.  This should help you understand and retain the material better.  It may also help to make outlines, summaries, concept diagrams, or lists of main results in your own words.  Read when you are alert.
• Read before the class in which we discuss the topic.  Do not expect to understand everything you read the first time, but spend time with the material ahead of class in order to
• familiarize yourself with the basic ideas so you can participate and understand more in class,
• identify what you do not understand and formulate questions to ask in class or office hours.

• Re-read.  Almost everyone (including me) finds it necessary to read mathematics several times to fully understand it.  You will understand the material more deeply when you re-read it.
• Focus on definitions, conclusions, and methods. Mathematics is a language and it is absolutely necessary to understand the precise definitions of key terms.  The results and how they were obtained are also crucial.
• Reflect on what you read.  Consider connections of what you have read to previous material and to other courses.  Anticipate possible future material.
• Discuss what you read.  Talking to someone inside or outside the class about the material will strengthen your knowledge.