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Classwork and Homework for Discrete Math
Taught by Mr. Thompson

Week One – November 28 – December 2nd

Monday – Introduction to class / Basic Concepts and Modeling

Introduction to class

Classwork: Discuss pages 0-7
- Terms and graphs on the board
- Students speculate the definitions of terms:
graph, vertex, edge, path, circuit, Euler circuit, deadheaded, connected, valence, complete, adjacent

Homework: Pages 22-23 Exercises 1-4, 9
Homework: Page 27 Exercises 35, 37

Tuesday – Street Networks
Tuesday – Circuits with more complications

Review Homework

Classwork: page 22-23 #5-8, 10-13
Classwork: Discuss p 18-20 & DMTA 4.3 and 4.4:
digraph, indegree, outdegree, lists, adjacency matrices

Wednesday – Circuits with more complications

Homework: DMTA worksheet: page 180-181 #8-11
Homework: DMTA worksheet: 4.3 #2-8, 10, 13

Thursday – Finding Euler circuits

Review Homework

Classwork: Discovery of Euler’s theorem
- Find Euler circuits on graphs
- Count valences of each vertex
- Conjecture
Discuss pages 8-10

Classwork: Euler Paths & Circuits worksheet #1, 2, 7, 19-24, 27, 28, 31, 32 (all)

Homework: Page 24 Exercises 17-20
Homework: Page 26 Exercise 33, Page 27, Page 28 Exercises 42

Honors HW: Page 27 Exercise 39-40, Page 29 Exercise 47

Friday – Quiz over Chapter 1

Quiz over Chapter 1

Week TwoDecember 5th-9th

Monday – Circuits with Reused edges / Eulerization and Squeezing

Classwork: Discuss pages 12-18

Homework: Page 26 Exercise 27-32

Tuesday – Hamiltonian Circuits

Homework: page 57-60 #1, 2, 6, 7, 9, 12, 13

Wednesday – Counting Problems and Tree diagrams

Homework: page 61 #16-19, 22-24

Thursday – Traveling Salesperson / Problems and Strategies

Vocabulary: algorithms, nearest neighbor, greedy, sorted edges

Homework: Page 62 Exercises 26, 30, 32

Friday – Review Traveling Salesperson Problems

Vocabulary: heuristic
Review homework
Classwork: Worksheet 1: #8-15. Worksheet 2: #25-28

Week Three – December 12th-16th

Monday – Minimum-Cost Spanning Trees

Classwork: Discuss pages 43-49
Kruskal’s algorithm, spanning tree, minimum-cost spanning tree

Homework: Pages 63-65 Exercises 36-39, page 69 #63, 64
Homework: Pages 56-57 Skills check #4, 6, 7
How many TSP tours are possible on a complete 9 city graph?
What are the benefits and drawbacks of heuristic algorithms?
Draw a complete graph with 7 vertices.

Tuesday – Game Day

Homework: Practice for Thurday's quiz over Chapter Two

Wednesday – Review Day

Practice Quiz over Chapter Two

Homework: Practice for Thurday's quiz over Chapter Two

Thursday – Quiz over Chapter Two

Quiz over Chapter Two

Reflection over Chapter Two

Friday – Game Day

Review Quiz over Chapter Two

Week Four – January 3 to January 6

Tuesday – Critical Paths and List Processing Algorithm

Review homework
Classwork: Page 67 #54, 56, 58, 60

Wednesday – List-Processing Algorithm and Critical Path Schedules

Review homework
Classwork: Page 102 Exercises 6, 7

Thursday – Work Period

Review homework
Classwork: Page 103 Exercises 8, 9, 10, 24ab, 11

Homework: Review for Quiz

Friday – Practice Quiz over Critical Path Scheduling

Practice Quiz over Critical Path Scheduling

Week Five – January 9 to January 13

Monday – Independent Tasks

Page 105 #25abc (is either solution optimal?), 17, 19

Tuesday – Quiz over Critical Path Scheduling

Quiz over Critical Path Scheduling

Wednesday – Bin Packing

Classwork: Discuss pages 90-93
next fit (decreasing), first fit (decreasing), worst fit (decreasing), best fit (decreasing)
Homework: Page 106 Exercise #35, 36, 39

Thursday – Bin Packing

Homework: Page 106 Exercise #33, 38

Friday – Review Day

Week Six – January 17 to January 20

Monday – Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday

Tuesday – Coloring Problems

Homework: Chromatic Number worksheet

Wednesday – Resolving Conflict / Coloring Problems

Homework: Pages 106-107 #47, 49

Thursday – Review Day

Homework: Pages 106-107 #48, 63

Friday – Hal Day – Progress Reports

Homework: Pages 106-107 #48, 63

Week Seven – January 23 to January 25

Monday – Practice Quiz over Independent Tasks, Bin Packing and Coloring

Homework: Review for tomorrow’s quiz

Tuesday – Quiz over Independent Tasks, Bin Packing and Coloring

Quiz over Independent Tasks, Bin Packing and Coloring

Wednesday – Discussion of Senior Exhibition Topics

Thursday – Parent Teacher Conferences – No classes

Friday – Parent Teacher Conferences – No classes

Week Eight – January 30 to February 3

Monday – Senior Exhibition – No regular classes

Tuesday – Adjusted Winner Procedure

Discuss pages 454-459
fair division, adjusted winner procedure, equitable

Wednesday – Adjusted Winner Procedure

Homework: Page 481 Exercise 1-4

Thursday – Knaster Inheritance Procedure

Review homework

Classwork: Notes on Measures of Fairness
Envy, proportionality, equitability and Pareto-optimality

Homework: Adjusted Winner Worksheet #1-3

Friday – Review of Envy, Proportionality and Equitability

Review homework

Classwork: Create your own problems and solve two from other students

Week Nine – February 6 to February 10

Monday – Adjusted Winner Procedure and Knaster Inheritance Procedure

Classwork: Worksheet #9, B, 1

Tuesday – Taking Turns

Review homework

Classwork: p 482 #10-13

Wednesday – Review for Quiz

Review homework

Classwork: Practice Quiz

Thursday – Quiz One over Fair Division

Fair Division Quiz

FridaySenior Exhibition Panel Work / Divide and Choose

Week Ten – February 13 to February 17

Monday – Divide and Choose

Notes on Divide and Choose

Tuesday – Divide and Choose

Classwork: Notes on Divide and Choose

Wednesday – Lone Divider

Notes on Lone Divider method

Thursday – Work period

Classwork: Lone Divider worksheet 1, 2 and 3

Friday – Selfridge-Conway

Classwork: Notes on the Selfridge-Conway method

Week Eleven – February 20 to February 24

Monday – No School – Presidents’ Day

Tuesday – Selfridge-Conway

Classwork: Selfridge-Conway worksheet #1-2
Homework: Selfridge-Conway worksheet #1-2

Wednesday – No class – Senior Library Field Trip

Thursday – Last Diminisher

Classwork: Notes on the Last Diminisher method

Friday – Last Diminisher

Classwork: Last Diminisher worksheet
Homework: Mixed review

Week Twelve – February 27 to March 2

Monday – Introduce the Trimming Procedure

Classwork: Notes on the 1992 Trimming Procedure

Tuesday – Trimming Procedure

Classwork: Trimming Procedure problems #1-2

Homework: Create your own problem

Wednesday – Trimming Procedure

Classwork: Solve each other’s problems

Homework: Make up any missing work

Thursday – Review for Cake Cutting Assessments

Classwork: Cake Cutting Practice Quiz

Homework: Make up any missing work

Friday – Review for Cake Cutting Assessments

Classwork: Finish Cake Cutting Practice Quiz

Homework: Make up any missing work

Week Thirteen - March 5 to March 8

Monday – Cake Cutting Assessment

Classwork: Cake Cutting Assessment

Homework: Make up any missing work

Tuesday – Finish Cake Cutting Assessment

Classwork: Finish Cake Cutting Assessment

Homework: Make up any missing work

Wednesday – Final Exam period

Cake Cutting Activity

Thursday – No class - Final Exams for periods 1, 2 and 3

Friday – Last day of 2nd Trimester – No class