Puzzles & Games
Student Info Form (due Sept 4)
Webwork Link
[Webwork Guidelines]
Project Guidelines
Reflection Guidelines
Project Outline (due Sept 26)
Presentation Schedule
- Nov 23: Dominic, Victor, Heather-Olivia-Alexandra
(Note: this date may change due to the strike) - Nov 28: Matthew-Muhammad-Jeff-Wamiq, Sierra-Victoria, Gianna-Riley-Mansahib
- Nov 30: Julien, Tyler-Hadi, Magali-Nicole, Alex
Class Material
- DAY 1: Knights & Knaves [Slides]
- DAY 2: Cheryl’s B-day Problem, Game of 21, Tic-tac-toe
[Slides]
- DAY 3: Mutilated Chessboard, Water & Wine [Slides]
- DAY 4: Counting, Hotelling’s Law [Slides]
- DAY 5: Problem Solving, Project Ideas [Slides]
- DAY 6: Fitch Cheney and Poker [Slides]
- DAY 7: Games of Chance and Expected Value [Slides]
- DAY 8: Quiz 1, Class Work [Quiz]
- DAY 9: HW Session, Mathematical Card Tricks [Tricks]
- DAY 10: HW Session, More Magic [Clock Trick] [Matched Speller]
- DAY 11: HW 2 Review, Test Prep
- DAY 12: Test Prep, Missing Dollar, Monty Hall [Slides]
- DAY 13: Test Prep, Penney’s Game [Slides]
- DAY 14: (Oct 5) Test 1 [Solutions]
- DAY 15: Intro to Modular Arithmetic, The Caesar Cipher
[Slides]
- DAY 16: More Modular Arithmetic, The Affine Cipher
[Slides]
- DAY 17: HW Session, Coin Flipping
- DAY 18: Cancelled
- DAY 19: HW3 Review
- DAY 20: One-Time Pad
[Slides]
- DAY 21: Public Key Cryptography
[Slides]
Homework and Review
- Homework 1 due Sept 7th (start of class) [Answers]
- Homework 2 due Sept 26th (start of class) [Answers]
- Review for Test 1 [Answers]
- Homework 3 due Oct 24th (start of class) [Answers]
- Homework 4 WEBWORK due Nov 13th (before midnight)
- Extra Review for Test 2
Simulators
Books
- Lady Luck The Theory Of Probability by Warren Weaver
- Mathematical Recreations and Essays by W. W. Rouse Ball
- Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney
- The Last Recreations by Martin Gardner
Youtube Channels
Other Online Resources
- Cut The Knot: Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles
- Card Colm: Colm Mulcahy’s articles on Mathematical Card Magic
- Recreational Mathematics Magazine: Free Online Journal
- Open Source Vector Playing Cards: Playing Card Images