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Part II
Notes for chapters 1, 2, and 3
3
Notes for 18 August
3.1
Syllabus and class mechanics
3.2
Introductions
3.3
Inductive and deductive reasoning
3.4
Inductive
3.5
Deductive
4
Notes for 20 August
4.1
Review: Inductive and deductive reasoning
4.2
Inductive reasoning on sequences
4.3
A tool for sequences: successive differences
4.4
Successive differences are not useful for everything.
4.5
An application where successive differences work, amazingly.
4.6
Next time: Problem solving techniques.
4.7
Homework
5
Notes for 22 August
5.1
The problem solving section is important enough for a full class
5.2
Review successive differences: a tool for inductive reasoning on sequences
5.3
Moving from a table to a formula
5.4
Starting point
5.5
The plan for deriving a formula
5.6
The derivation
5.7
Homework
6
Solutions for first week’s assignments
6.1
Notes on received homeworks
6.2
Exercises for Section 1.1
6.3
Explain the “trick” of Section 1.1’s example
6.4
Exercises for Section 1.2
7
Notes for 25 August
7.1
Problem solving principles
7.2
Making a lists and tables
7.3
Searching by guessing
7.4
Understanding dependencies, or ”working backward”
7.5
Next time: more techniques
7.6
Homework
8
Notes for 27 August
8.1
Review: Pólya’s problem-solving principles
8.2
Effective trial and error by bisection
8.3
Simpler sub-problems for finding patterns
8.4
Other sources for tactics and examples
8.5
Next time: Reading graphs and charts
8.6
Homework
9
Notes for 29 August
9.1
Review: Pólya’s problem-solving principles
9.2
Notes on the homework
9.3
Reading graphs: delayed until Monday (or later)
9.4
Homework
10
Solutions for second week’s assignments
10.1
Exercises for Section 1.3
10.2
Making change
10.3
Writing out problems
10.4
Computing with numbers
11
Notes for reading graphs
11.1
Reading graphs
11.2
Creating a graphical depiction of data
11.3
Graph galleries and resources
12
Homework for reading graphs
12.1
Homework
13
Notes for the third week: set theory
13.1
Language of set theory
13.2
Basic definitions
13.3
Translating sets into (and from) English
13.4
Relations
13.5
Translating relations into (and from) English
13.6
Consequences of the set relation definitions
13.7
Visualizing two or three sets: Venn diagrams
13.8
Operations
13.9
Translating operations into English
13.10
Special operations
13.11
Cardinality and the power set
14
Homework for the third week: set theory
14.1
Homework
15
Solutions for third week’s assignments
15.1
Section 1.4, problem 54
15.2
Section 2.1
15.3
Section 2.2
15.4
Section 2.3
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