Nov 27 Meeting
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At the Nov 20 meeting we went over last week's set and looked at multinomial coefficients.
Materials:
I'll accept the Warmup 8 sheet for participation credit until before the next meeting.
I discovered that some of the new participants need practice in symbolic manipulation for simple, one variable equations.
To that end, the following Alcumus topics are recommended:
- Prealgebra - Expressions
- Prealgebra - Basic Linear Equations
Nov 13 Meeting
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At the Nov 13 meeting we went over last week's set and looked at quadratics and parabola.
Materials:
I'll accept the Parabola Stretch sheet for participation credit until before the next meeting.
The following Alcumus topics are recommended:
- Algebra - Quadratic Formula/Discriminant
- Algebra - Completing the Square
- Algebra - Factoring Monic Quadratics
Nov 6 Meeting
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At the Nov 6 meeting we went over last week's set and looked at an combinatorics: permutations and combinations
Materials:
I'll accept the Warmup 6 sheet for participation credit until before the next meeting.
The following Alcumus topics are recommended:
- Prealgebra - The Multiplication Principle in Counting
- Prealgebra - Permutations
- Counting - Basic Combinations
- Counting - Computing Combinations
Oct 23 Meeting
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At the Oct 23 meeting we went over last week's set and looked at an example of telescoping sums.
Materials:
I'll accept the Warmup 5 sheet for participation credit until before the next meeting.
The following Alcumus topics are recommended:
- Prealgebra - Ratio Basics
- Prealgebra - Proportions
- Prealgebra - Unit Conversions