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Tentative Class Problems, Oct. 30 - Dec. 14
| Date: |
Problems: (All problems refer to the numbers from the 3/20/2005 edition of the book.) |
| 10/30 | Bogart:119,121,124,128 (note: do nearly all of the problems in 3.1) Using the chart at the beginning of Chapter 3, fill in as many of the blanks as possible. Also, write a problem whose solution uses that particular technique |
| 11/2 | Handout problems (students who have had 256 will explain Stirling numbers on 11/4) |
| 11/4 | Bogart:139,147,149 |
| 11/6 | catch up Portfolio problems: do one of the combinatorial proofs, or Bogart, chpt 3 supplementary problems, #1 or 2. |
| 11/9 | cont. |
| 11/11 | cont. |
| 11/13 | Partitions of integers Portfolio problems: Chpt 3 supplementary, 4(combinatorial proof),6,10 or problem 160, corrected to read 3k into 4 parts of size at most k-1 |
| 11/16 | Partitions of integers |
| 11/18 | notebook summary of chapter 3 due |
| 11/20 | 162 |
| 11/23 | 164 |
| 11/30 | 4.1.1, 171-178 |
| 12/2 | 4.1.2-4.1.5, 179-186 |
| 12/4 | 4.2-4.2.4, 194-206 Portfolio problems: do one of problems 11,12, or 13 from the sample test problems |
| 12/7 | 4.2.5, 207-215 |
| 12/9 | snow day |
| 12/11 | 4.2.6, 216-226 |
| 12/14 | Portfolio problems: do another one of problems 11- 16 of the sample test problems |