Mathematics Department Instructional Resources
This page contains the beginnings of a directory of teaching materials
placed on the web by faculty members of the
Department of Mathematics and Statistics at
Calvin College.
Faculty members can contribute to this archive of teaching materials
any files that they feel may be of use to their colleagues and/or
students. The may also provide links to files not archived at this
location.
Access to contributed files may be designated as either open
(unrestricted) or restricted.
Open files will be accessible to anyone on the world wide web, in particular
to students. Restricted files will be accessible only to those who have
been given access via a username and password. It is intended that such
permission will be granted only to faculty.
To receive a username and password or information about how to
contribute to the materials, contact R. Pruim.
Information about the Department appearing in the College
Catalog is also available online. This includes
course descriptions.
Contributed Items: Organized by Course
This index is updated periodically. A
list of submitted files that have not
yet been added to the directory is also available.
See also the course web pages below.
Math 100: Elements of Modern Mathematics
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Department statement
regarding goals, objectives, implementation, etc. (Curriculum Committee)
- Sample Syllabi
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Exams, etc.
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Units (and parts thereof)
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A unit on Mathematical Language (J. Bradley)
[
html
]
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Materials for a unit on statistics
(R. Pruim)
[
TeX
|
dvi
|
postscript
]
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A long (37 pages) collection of unannotated handouts (some used, others not;
some good, others ...) from a 1995 instantiation (R. Pruim)
[
TeX
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dvi
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postscript
]
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Readings, Films, Videos, etc. (Bibligraphies, Questions, Reviews, etc.)
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Mathematics in Western Culture by Kline
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Nova episode about Fermat's Last Theorem
(T. Scofiel)
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Math Anxiety by S. Tobias
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Group Activities
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The "Locker Problem"
(R. Pruim)
[
TeX
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dvi
|
postscript
]
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A set of exercises including an extension to the "Locker Problem",
an extension to "Poison", and extensions to the Pythagorean Theorem
(R. Pruim)
[
TeX
|
dvi
|
postscript]
Math 143: Intro to Probability and Statistics
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Excel Worksheets (R. Pruim) [Notes: These are also on limerick. I am not
sure that they work when downloaded from this web page.]
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A worksheet with macros for histograms and normal quantile plots
[
Excel file
]
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A worksheet with mocros for doing simulated sampling with various
probabilities of success, sample sizes, and numbers of samples.
[
Excel file
]
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A table with the standard normal probabilities
[
Excel file
]
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A worksheet showing the results of 100 simulated free throws at various
success rates.
[
Excel file
]
Course Web Pages
Spring 1999
Fall 1998
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Math 190:
Freshman Mathematics Seminar (R. Pruim)
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Math 221 A:
The Real Number System and Methods for Elementary Education (R. Pruim)
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Math 381 A:
Advanced Logic (R. Pruim)
Periodically the index to these materials will be updated, and hopefully
over time, more materials will be assembled here.
It is also possible to navigate the directories directly, and there may
be some materials available that have not yet been added to the index.
Created:
Fri Jan 8 12:06:39 1999
Last modified:
Thu Jul 29 19:57:54 1999