Finite - Finite Mathematics 1630 Home Page

This is our Wiki's HomePage. A wiki is a bulletin board that you can edit. To comment, ask and answer questions, edit pages, and add your images, click the Login link on the right. Log in with your Alias as your Username, and your last name, in lowercase, as your Password. You can change your password later. If you do not have an alias yet, write me at our WebCT site, and tell me your Alias preference. You cannot see the other pages until you log in. After you log in, you can change your password by clicking in the right menu on Preferences.

Some of our pages, like Doodles, are editable. On some, you may only leave comments. To ask questions, click the Comment on this Page at the bottom of the page. To single space between your lines of comment, press SHIFT+ENTER, rather than the ENTER key alone.

On editable pages, in the upper right on the Tools menu under Page, you will see Edit.
Pressing this link, pops up an Editor window where you may add images.
I will make pages editable, when we have a table everyone works on.
If you get stuck, visit help.editme.com for detailed help and useful tips.

On the left is a menu that will appear on every page.
Use the menu to navigate to other pages of our site.
As the course progresses, I will add a page for each assignment.
Each assignment may earn you up to 7 points.
Check here everyday for public info on assignments.
I will penalize you if you give away answers to those assignments I have made private.
But that does not stop you from asking questions about them.
The more you write, the more you learn.
The more you learn, the more you earn.

YOU MAY NOT CONTACT OTHER MEMBERS OF THE CLASS PRIVATELY.
ALWAYS USE YOUR ALIAS.
YOU MUST DISCUSS ALL YOUR IDEAS HERE, UNLESS I HAVE MARKED THEM PRIVATE.
WHAT HAPPENS ON THE WIKI STAYS ON THE WIKI.
I WILL DELETE COMMENTS FOR VARIOUS REASONS: SUCH AS GIVING AN ANSWER MARKED PRIVATE.
DO NOT WAIT TILL YOU SOLVE A PROBLEM BEFORE YOU WRITE YOUR IDEAS ABOUT IT.
YOUR PRIMARY OBJECTIVE IS TO GAIN EXPERIENCE SOLVING PROBLEMS.
THAT YOU DO NOT KNOW HOW TO SOLVE.
STAY COOL.
BE PATIENT.
FRUSTRATION IS NORMAL.
YOU WILL NOT BE SHOT IF WRONG.

Comments:

Mr. Holt,

This was a great class. It teaches skills which anyone who takes this class will use ( you'll be leaning on these skills without even realizing it). I hope in the future this type of learning will be promoted by all of the students who took this. I know I will.

This website is the record of a math course offered from June 2005 to December 2006.
The video links are no longer valid.
What remains are the student and teacher collaborations solving problems
using methods that all liberal arts students are expected to possess.
Although today's standards of math education center on problem solving,
today's standardized tests merely require rote learning.
If what we test is what we get, then standardized tests make our objectives moot.
The course presented on these pages, however, does not separate test from content.
The test is the content.
Although this course has now ended, another course has begun at math.editme.com.
Visit anytime.