What To Do With Your Wiki

Wiki Assignment
1. Your assignment goes on www.appliedmath.wikispaces.com. If you've given me a valid email address, you should be an authorized contributor.

2. You're essentially teaching someone how to do a 'type-problem' from Accelerated Math, from start to finish. Show the entire problem, the objective, any relevant instructional materials, whatever....and I believe that I said in class that it should be something you struggled with yourself, but that you're competent with now.

3. Remember that once a question/objective has been selected, it's not available for anyone else's assignment. Check carefully before you post.

4. It's a wiki, so SAVE YOUR CHANGES every time you make some....works in progress are fine, but I'll check regularly to make sure you have something up.

5. No last names/identifiers in your posts...We've talked about this in class...please remember to be 'mostly anonymous'....

Have fun, be experimental, and try to learn something on purpose....

RM

Sometimes My Light Bulb Goes 'ON'....

I am so impressed with these last few posts. You (who have posted so far) have taken some fairly big risks, since to my knowledge, there's no right way to do this....and you're doing it really well!

At risk of gushing, I'm proud of how hard you guys as a class are trying to make these little brainwaves of mine work. This is an example of why we're blogging and why I truly believe that technologies such as our blog can make the whole greater than the sum of its parts.

Really neat stuff folks, and as your teacher, I'm glad to see you learn on purpose.

RM

Combinations -Revised

Here is everything Wikipedia has to say about mathematical combinations:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinations

to summarize;

Combination: a combination is an unordered collection of unique elements
ie: numbers, variables

- the order of the combination is not important

- two lists with the same elements in a different order are considered to be the same combination

- the elements cannot be repeated, they must appear once, thus making them "unique"

- combinations are defined by the elements contained in them

http://www.dictionary.com/ states that a combination is:
the arrangement of elements into various groups without regard to their order in the group.

This is a link I found on http://www.reference.com/ to
Many Common types of permutation and combination math problems, with detailed solutions
I'm not sure how useful it will be, I browsed through and it seemed to have potential, so hopefully it provides some useful information.

This link leads to some random school districts exam prep page, it looks very very useful, it has lessons and practice and formulas, yay!
http://regentsprep.org/regents/math/math-topic.cfm?TopicCode=combin