Portfolio

Please put these items in a three-ring binder.
Your portfolios will be collected from time to time and checked for participation credit.

Item # Date Description
1 9/8 Lesson 1
2 9/11 Lab 1: Introduction to spreadsheets
3 9/15 Sequences
4 9/17 The Future of Everything: Introduction
5 9/18 Lab 2: Sequences in Excel
6 9/21 Arithmetic sequences, lines, and linear equations
7 9/24 The Future of Everything  Chapter 1
8 9/25 Lab 3: Arithmetic sequences and linear growth
9 9/28 Sums, recurrences, and quadratic growth
10 9/28 Elementary Mathematical Models ch. 5
11 10/1 The Future of Everything  Chapter 2
12 10/13 Least-squares line fit to Archaeopteryx data
13 10/13 Geometric sequences worksheet
14 10/15 The Future of Everything Chapter 3
15 10/16 Lab 4a: least-squares line fit
16 10/16 Lab 4b: geometric and other sequences
17 10/19 Modeling exponential growth
18 10/29 "Mixed Models":  The equation yk+1=Ayk+B
19 10/30 Maple lab:  Print your worksheet.
20 11/2 LDEwcc Section 3.1
21 11/5 The Future of Everything Chapter 4
22 11/6 Linearity Lab
23 11/9 Solving homogeneous order-2 linear difference equations with constant coefficients
24 11/10 LDEwcc with initial or boundary conditions
25 11/12 The Future of Everything Chapter 5
26 11/16 Nonhomogeneous LDEwcc
27 11/16 Nonhomogeneous LDEwcc
28 11/16 Nonhomogeneous LDEwcc
29 11/16 Nonhomogeneous LDEwcc
30 11/19 The Future of Everything Chapter 6
31 11/20 Linear Difference Equations: Maple Lab
32 12/1 Graphical analysis exercises
33 12/3 The Future of Everything Chapter 7
34 12/15 The Future of Everything Chapter 8
35 12/15 The Future of Everything Chapter 9