This week I will be gone at a conference, but you will have a substitute teacher. I am leaving worksheets and lecture notes etc. in my absence. Please attend class as regularly, as we are covering important material.
I’m leaving up this one website post for the week. I will post under “Lectures” the worksheet material etc.
Don’t forget that Monday (the 18th) you have Writing Assignment TASK A due; that’s your task for this weekend. I will be looking at these remotely via canvas and giving feedback (via canvas) as quickly as possible after you hand them in (so that everyone is on track with a good topic before spring break!).
We will skip homework for this Friday and Homework will be due after spring break. (With the snow day and the quiz, we hardly covered any new material to test; and anyway it’s spring break.) Homework due after break has been posted.
As for “45 minute tasks,” just keep the habit but use your 45 minutes to review worksheets, lecture notes, and associated textbook material.
I may update this post with a little more detail on Saturday, March 16th.
Today (Monday) we had a worksheet, but we only just started it. Please complete the section titled “Additive Dynamics” (up to end of page 5) and then compare to this brief cheatsheet: For item 1, it should look like one big cycle; item 2 you should have two cycles; for item 3, 5 pairs; for item 4, 3 cycles; finish to the end of page 5 at home. We will pick up there on Wednesday. Also, there was a typo on the second diagram on page 6, fixed in the online version here.
Don’t forget to bring your worksheet back to class on Wed.
You have homework and a QUIZ on Friday.
YOU HAVE A TASK DUE ON MONDAY. Read all about the Writing Assignment on the menu above, including Task A. Please let me know if you have questions. Right now, spend a little time looking through the suggested topics or googling or wikipedia-crawling around, and start to zero in on a topic.
For reading, we have covered Chapter 5 up to page 139, and are now starting on Chapter 6 (we have skipped pages 140-146 for now).
This Friday we did a worksheet in class. Please continue it, getting to the end of Section 5.
Do associated reading in the textbook, p. 134-139.
Invent and solve a couple linear congruential equations. You should be able to solve any linear congruential equation at this point (ax = b mod n).
Homework has been posted.
Material to study for the quiz (next Friday!) has been posted. It will be updated on Monday/Wednesday after lectures to reflect the newest material we cover those days, so check back.
Take the quiz on canvas about the Sage workshop (this helps me assess where the class is and also improve the worksheet for next time).
Read Chapter 5, from beginning to page 136 inclusive. Keep reading if you have time (if so, this will preview our next material).
Contemplate the question when can you solve a linear congruential equation (i.e. solve ax = b mod N)? Try to rephrase this problem into one just about integers.
Note, on the Resources page I now list tutors in MARC (and hours) where they know and are willing to teach number theory. Near the bottom.
IMPORTANT: Thursday’s office hours are 10:30-11:30 instead of 2-3 pm.