• Email: <emcnicho>
• Office Hours:  
  • Office Hours: https://sites.google.com/willamette.edu/emcnicholas/home (In addition to the office hours posted on the website, I’m also available by appointment for in-person or Zoom meetings)
• Math Tutoring:
  • Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday nights 7-8pm in the Math Hearth (2nd floor Ford) or via Zoom when classes are not in person (https://willametteuniversity.zoom.us/j/96828521180)
• Class Meetings: 
  • Section 01: 12:50-2:20 pm, Ford 201; Final Exam Time:  May 2nd (M) 2-5pm
  • Section 2: 9:40-11:10 am, Ford 201; Final Exam Time:  May 6 (F) 8-11am

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Class Meets via Zoom

Introduction to Class

Why Study Math

4 points - 2 distances

Math Topic: Games & Puzzles, Introduction

• Pre-Semester Survey (Complete by Monday 10pm 1/10)
• Perusall Assignment: Read and Comment on the Syllabus (due Tuesday 1/11)
• Perusall Assignment: Math for Human Flourishing (due Thursday 1/13)

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Class Meets via Zoom

Topic Previews

• Perusall Assignment: Math with Bad Drawings (due Tuesday 1/18)
• Homework #1: Games & Puzzles due Thursday 1/20
• Topic Preview: due Thursday 1/20

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More Math Puzzles: Game of Life, Ulam Sprital, Sieve of Eratosthenes

• Week #2 Survey: Topic Preferences (please fill out by Monday 1/24)
• Perusall Assignment: Grapes of Math, Part I (due Tuesday 1/25)
• Homework #2: Game of Life and other cool things due Thursday 1/27

4

More Math Puzzles: Magic Squares, Sudoku, and Kakuro

• Perusall Assignment: Grapes of Math, Part II (due Tuesday 2/1)
• Homework #3: Sudoku & Magic Squares (due Thursday 2/3)

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More Math Puzzles: Kakuro and R/K Puzzles

• Perusall Assignment: Fractal Partitions Parts I and II (due Thursday 2/10)

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More Math Puzzles: Kakuro and R/K Puzzles

• Homework #4: Kakuro & R/K Puzzles (due Tuesday 2/15)
• Perusall Assignment: How to Bake Pi (due Tuesday 2/15)
• Quiz on Games Thursday 2/16

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Math, Art, and Sculpture - Symmetries and Projections

• No class Tuesday (mid-semester break)
• Take home quiz due Saturday 2/19

Math, Art, and Sculpture - Divine Proportions (Ratios, Proportions, and Sequences in Art)

• Homework #5: Part 0 - Image upload (due Monday 2/28)
• Perusall Assignment: How to Bake Pi Part II (due Wednesday 3/2)
• Homework #5: Functions & Symmetry (due Wednesday 3/9)

Math, Art, and Sculpture - Divine Proportions II (Fibonacci and the Golden Ratio)

• Week #9 Survey (please complete by Thursday 8am 3/10)
• Homework #5: Functions & Symmetry (due Wednesday 3/9)
• Perusall: Fibonnaci in Music (due Sunday 3/13)
• Homework #6: Plato, Fibonnaci, and Phi (due Wednesday 3/16)

Math, Art, and Sculpture - Golden Ratio & the Great Pyramid of Cheops, Symmetries & Regular Polygons

• Homework #6: Plato, Fibonnaci, and Phi (due Wednesday 3/16)
• Perusall 2nd Chance (due Sunday 3/27)

Math, Art, and Sculpture - Symmetry & Group Theory 

• Perusall: Group Theory in the Bedroom (due Tuesday 3/29)
• Homework #7: Symmetries & Groups (due Friday 4/1)

Math, Art, and Sculpture - Frieze & Wallpaper Groups

• Perusall Reading: Group Theory & The Rubik's Cube (due Thursday 4/7)
• Perusall Reading: If you give a mouse some symmetries (due Thursday 4/7)
• Homework #8: Symmetries, Frieze Patterns, & Groups (due Friday 4/8)

Math, Art, and Sculpture - Projections: Planar & Stereographic

• Sign-up here for a Final Project by Thursday 4/14
• Homework #9: Penrose Tilings, Fractal Dragons, Projective Art (due Friday 4/15)
• Study for Quiz #2 (Tuesday 4/19).  Take-home portion and study guide
• Perusall - Kepler and Penrose (due Thursday 4/21)
• Extra Credit Perusall - Fibonacci & Mandelbrot (due Thursday 4/21)

Quiz & Project Meetings - Math in Art & Architecture Quiz (Tue) & Individual Group Meetings (Th)

• Section 01: 12:50-2:20 pm, Ford 201; Project Showcase:  Monday, May 2nd 2-5pm
• Section 2: 9:40-11:10 am, Ford 201;Project Showcase:   Friday, May 6 9-11am