MCS 256, Discrete Calculus & Probability, Spring 2009

Week	Dates	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
1	Feb. 9-13	Introduction	Recurrences  Induction	Office  hour	Sequences & sums  Unwinding.   Strong induction
2	Feb. 16-20	Lab  Maple	Binomial  theorem	Office  hour	Difference  calculus	Polynomials
3	Feb. 23-27	Stirling  numbers	Higher÷d differences	Office  hour	Lab  Interpolating	Wrap-up
4	Mar. 2-6	Exam 1	Summation  calculus	Office  hour	Summation  techniques	Fundamental  Theorem
5	Mar. 9-13	Summation  by parts	Lab: anYn =bnYn-1+cn	Office  hour	Asymptotics	L'Hospital's  rule
6	Mar. 16-20	Integrals Stirling approx	Exam 2	Office  hour	Sets and  logic	How to  count
Break	Mar. 21-29	Spring	Break		Spring	Break
7	Mar 30-Apr 3	Combinatorics	Ordered  arrangements	Office  hour	Selections  Multisets	Distributions
8	Apr. 6-9	Probability  models	Probability  calculations	Office  hour	Exam 3	Good Friday
9	Apr. 14-17	Easter Monday	Conditional  probability	Office  hour	Bayes's  rule	Random  variables
10	Apr. 20-24	Discrete  distributions	Special  distributions	Office  hour	Expectation  Moments,pgf	Lab MAA-Hamline
11	4/27-5/1	Techniques  for means...	Generating  functions	MAY DAY!	Table of  ogfs	Manipulating  ogfs
12	May 4-8	Exam 4	Recurrences  Diff eqs	Office  hour	Homogeneous  LRRwccs	Nonhomogeneous  LRRwccs
13	May 11-15	Solving  practice	Lab	Office  hour	Divide &  conquer	Master  Theorem
14	5/18-20, 22-23	Applications	Wrap-up and  review		Reading Day	Final --> Sat! 8-10 am
15	May 25-26	Finals week	ends.
1-14	Class days	13	14	13.6-14	13	12