An excellent introductory course for students who have not had algebra. Now that world chess champion Gary Kasparov has lost a match to a computer, more people are interested in artificial intelligence. This course is an exploration of the mathematics and computer science of sports and games. We will study the mathematics of chess, checkers, card games, baseball, football and even business negotiations. We will use traditional methods and invent our own, using statistics, probability and other mathematics.
Students learn best when they construct their own mathematical understanding.
This quote from the U.S. Dept. of Education sums up how students will learn geometry in this course. You will use all your thinking skills to invent, investigate and make connections about geometry properties. Students use laboratory equipment to gain real-life knowledge of chemistry. Experiments introduce such concepts as acid-base chemistry,synthesis, purification and analysis, crystallization, distillation, stoichiometry etc. Agreat first course for students in the laboratory.