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2. Any number system with place value that has some sort of base
number system
← To classify things, you have to make sure everyone has the same
definition. Definition was “relative” – depending on different definitions,
different classifications could be obtained.
• 10 symbols (0-9)
• Base-10
• If we’re tricky about it, we can treat some operations like others.
• Might not be able to represent all numbers if we don’t have all the
operations
← If we start with 0-9 and +/-, then we can get negatives, we can get all
the integers, Natural, Integers. We’re missing rational numbers, irrationals,
imaginary numbers.
← If we start with 0-9, and +/-/*/÷, we can get natural numbers, integers,
rational numbers & irrational numbers (real numbers). imaginary?
← Do you think that you can use the standard algorithm for addition or
multiplication we are using today in other number systems. Why or why not?
If yes, how?
• Can do
• Can’t do
o Systems without a zero placeholder, we can’t perform the
standard algorithm for multiplication
o Before there was a symbol for zero, there was just an empty
space. This led to confusion, so a dot was used (sometimes
the same as the punctuation for the end of a sentence). Zero
began as being a symbol for a placeholder (first recognized as
the absence of a quantity). Later recognized as a quantity.
Our symbol for zero evolved from a tiny circle used as a place
holder.
• What is the difference between our current use of fractions and the
unit fraction approach?
← What are some of the logical difficulties that arise when you attempt to
define 0/0 to be 1 or 0?
• 0/0=0 is the same as 0 times what equals zero (of which there are
an infinite number of answers). Zero times what equals 1 is not
possible. Quotient Remainder Theorem
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Imagine a teacher shows her students a shortcut for dividing single digits by
9. She says that all you have to do is to write the numerator as a repeating
decimal (for example, 1/9=.1 repeating, that is 0.1111111..., and 4/9=.4
repeating, that is 0.4444444...). A student raises their hand and asks if that
means that 9/9=.9 repeating. A different students says that this is impossible
because 9/9 has to be equal 1. What would say to these two students?
3/9=1/3=.333333…
0.333….+0.333…+0.333=0.999…
X=.99999…
10X=9.9999….
10X-X=9.9999…-0.99999…
9X=9
x=1
← Discussion on Negatives
← One descriptions of negative numbers are numbers that are “less than
nothing”. How would you explain or verify that negative numbers are “less
than nothing”?
• What other descriptions for negative numbers can you think of?
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o Owing money.
← Have the number line displayed with both positive and negatives.
-n * -m = -(-n * m) = -(-nm)= nm
← Discussion on Imaginary Numbers
o Root of g(x) is 3
• Order from least to greatest -2, -1+i, 3-i, 4i, √7-3i. Explain your
methods.
• Within each book – statement -> diagram -> proof -> Q.E.D
• Since pi is irrational, we’ll never know all the digits of the decimal.
There also is no patterns found in the digits. Challenge to find more
digits. Ratio is used so often (so popular) because of its relation to a
circle. Also, possible discovers await if we can discover about the
nature of irrational numbers within the digits.
← Coordinate Geometry
• What is the mathematical definition/description of analytic
geometry?
o Can represent more than one variable at a time now. Can use
this to find areas and lengths.
← Platonic Solids
o Tetrahedron (4 sides)
o Octahedron (8 sides)
o All the faces are the same regular shapes. Every vertex has
the same number of faces meeting (number of edges as well).
o The angles at each vertex must add to less than 360 degrees
(or else it’ll be flat.)
o 4 elements
← Non-Euclidean Geometry
← Projective Geometry
← Perspective in Art
• How did the use of perspective change the perception and purpose
of art in society.
• What is proof?
o Real life – the scope (one instance vs. all instances), trying to
get evidence to be convinced. Visual signals can be
convincing.
A square and five things and six is equal to zero. <- Rhetorical
style uses words.
o Will the false position method work for all first degree
algebraic problems? How do you know?
• What are different methods that have been used to solve quadratic
equations in the past?
X^2 + 8X = 20
x 8
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x 4
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X^2+8X+16=20+16
(X+4)^2=36
X+4=6
X=2
← Imagine you are trying to find different ways of calculating the area of
the shaded region of the parabola. What are different methods you could
come up with?
• Integrals – taking the integral of the first point minus the integral of
the second point.
• Area of the parabola, then subtracting the area underneath it. This
would be using the rectangle approximation.
← Imagine you are trying to find different ways of determining the speed
of a falling object. What different methods can you come up with?
• Vertex formula
• Rate of change.
S = 1 – (1+1) – (1+1) -… = 1
S = -1 + (1-1) + (1-1)…= -1
• Limits
← What are some of the contributions that Newton and Leibniz made to
the creation of calculus?
← Discussion of Probability
• Design your own dice game (similar to the one listed on page 165).
Describe the rules of the game, and describe how you would
calculate the mathematical expectation of winning.
← Discussion of Statistics
Give an example of the equivalence not(P and Q) <-> not (P) or not Q)
• P=I am a boy
• I am not (a boy who likes baseball) same as not being a boy or not
liking baseball.
• P=Go to store
• Q=Got to movies
• Not going to (store and movies) same as not going to store or not
going to movies.
Give an example of the equivalence not(P or Q) <-> not (P) and not(Q)
• P=She is old
• Q=She is grumpy
• She is not (old or grumpy) is the same as she is not old and she is
not grump.
← If we wanted to see if every student in our class had a desk to sit in,
how could we find out besides counting the number of students and counting
the number of desks?
o (One-to-one correspondence)
← Do you think the size of the set of odd numbers is the same as the size
of the set of even numbers? Support your claim with some of Cantor’s ideas.