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Mathematics (MATH)
202 Fenton, 541-346-4705
College of Arts & Sciences
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Course Data
  MATH 206   Combinatorics Math Lab 2.00 cr.
Exploratory course in mathematics. Course focuses on techniques of mathematical exploration and discovery, the language of mathematics, and foundational issues. Topics from combinatorics.
Grading Options: Pass/No Pass Only for all students
Instructor: Nemirovskaya ME-mail Office:   333F Tykeson Hall
Phone:   (541) 346-9761
Course Materials
 
  CRN Avail Max Time Day Location Instructor Notes
  23497 15 25 0800-0900 mw 00 REMOTE Nemirovskaya M M
Academic Deadlines
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January 3:   Process a complete drop (100% refund, no W recorded)
January 9:   Drop this course (100% refund, no W recorded; after this date, W's are recorded)
January 9:   Process a complete drop (90% refund, no W recorded; after this date, W's are recorded)
January 10:   Process a complete withdrawal (90% refund, W recorded)
January 10:   Withdraw from this course (100% refund, W recorded)
January 11:   Add this course
January 11:   Last day to change to or from audit
January 17:   Process a complete withdrawal (75% refund, W recorded)
January 17:   Withdraw from this course (75% refund, W recorded)
January 24:   Process a complete withdrawal (50% refund, W recorded)
January 24:   Withdraw from this course (50% refund, W recorded)
January 31:   Process a complete withdrawal (25% refund, W recorded)
January 31:   Withdraw from this course (25% refund, W recorded)
February 21:   Withdraw from this course (0% refund, W recorded)
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Expanded Course Description

Reading a book like “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” is fairly straightforward: each sentence conveys a direct idea on what a char- acter did, said, or thought, and these ideas fit together easily to make a simple story. Reading a play by Shakespeare is quite different: sentences can convey multiple ideas at once, characters can say one thing and mean another, and the stories have layers upon layers of meaning. Reading Shakespeare takes training and practice.

Reading mathematics, and learning mathematics, is a lot like reading Shakespeare. One doesn’t just sit down and read each sentence, and have the ideas fit together easily. One has to find the deeper meaning in the sentences, and carefully put together the story that they are trying to tell. This is difficult, and sometimes frustrating, but learning to do it opens up a wonderful and exciting world.

In this course we will read some mathematics together. We will talk about ways to make sense of what you read, and we will do a lot of exploring. Some of the skills we will focus on are: trying examples, looking for patterns, making conjectures, testing conjectures, and modifying conjectures. These might sound easy, but when you are reading mathematics you need to be constantly doing all five of these things! It takes practice.

In this particular course we will be reading the book “Thinking Mathematically” by John Mason, and tackling several of the problems listed in the final chapter. As the title suggests, this course is designed to teach students how to think like a mathematician—through the process of working on problems. The problems represent a hodgepodge of different kinds, mostly lying in the general area of combinatorics.

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