MAT 125 ONLINE ACTIVITIES

Directions: Select one activity for each chapter. Please be careful to fully understand the problem answering each part of the problem. Show all of your work. Submit them on or before the due dates listed on our syllabus. You can:

1.  E-mail a word document or a picture taken using your smart phone.

2.  Bring them to the Division II Mathematics office located at the Des Plaines Campus in room 2180. The office staff will put them in my mail box.

3.  Bring them to my office, room 3610, during my posted office hours.

Grading:

You will receive 100% if; All directions have been followed, all parts of the problem have been thoroughly answered, all work has been shown, all work is correct, all arithmetic is correct, and it is turned in on time. Your work must demonstrate a true understanding of each topic. Anything less will result in a lower grade. You must turn your work in on time or receive a zero.

Chapter 1 Problem Solving Activity

1.  Using newspapers, the internet, magazines, or other sources, find three (3) examples of conclusions arrived at by inductive or deductive reasoning. Explain how inductive or deductive reasoning was used in arriving at the conclusion.

2.  Write and solve a word problem using a real life situation requiring critical thinking. Use, show, and label all 4 problem solving steps we learned. This should be a complex problem.

Chapter 2 Set Activity

Select and complete one activity.

  1. Select three medications and find a resource on the internet that lists the possible major side effects of each.

Construct a Venn diagram.

If the three medications are labeled A, B, and C, find the following using roster notation;

a. (A B)’

b. (A B) C

c. A (B C)

d. A’ B’

  1. Select three possible careers (A, B, and C) you may pursue and list the job responsibilities you would have with each one.

What responsibilities do the jobs have in common? Describe this using set notation.

If you could combine these careers somehow, what would your new job responsibilities be? Describe this using set notation.

Find the following using roster notation;

a. (A B)’

b. A (B C)

c. A’ B’

Chapter 3 Logic Activity

Select and complete one activity.

  1. Write an argument, in words and symbols, matching the law of syllogism (transitive) that involves something about your school or real life. Then explain why the conclusion of your argument is valid. Use your knowledge of logic from Chapter 3.
  1. Write an example of the fallacy of the inverse, in words and symbols, which involves something about your school or real life.

Then explain why the conclusion of your arguments is invalid. Use your knowledge of logic from Chapter 3.

  1. Politicians argue in favor of positions all the time. Do a Google search for the text of a speech by each of the main candidates in a Presidential election.

Then find at least three logical arguments within the text, write the arguments in symbols, and use truth tables or commonly used argument forms to analyze the arguments, and see if they are valid.

Chapter 8 Consumer Mathematics Activity

Select and complete one activity.

  1. You have $1,000 to invest. Investigate the advantages and disadvantages of each type of investment; checking account, money market account, passbook savings account, and certificate of deposit. Write a short paper indicating which type of account you have chosen and why (in detail) you chose that account.
  1. There are many fees involved in buying or selling a home. Some of these include an appraisal fee, survey fee, etc. Consult a real estate agency to see what is necessary to purchase a home in your area and write a short paper on the necessary closing costs.
  1. Obtain applications or descriptive brochures for several different bank card programs, compare their features (including those in fine print), and explain which deal would be best for you, and why. Be specific.

Chapter 11 Activity

Select and complete one activity.

  1. Using the US census bureau website, http://www.census.gov/, select a set of statistics to write and answer the 4 following types of probability problems; (include a screen shot of the statistics you are using)

a.  The probability of an event not occurring (complement)

b.  The probability with mutually exclusive or not mutually exclusive events “or” (state the one used)

c.  The probability with independent or dependent events “and” (state the one used)

d.  Conditional probability.

  1. Research a game available at a typical casino (not roulette). You can simplify the game for the purposes of this exercise. Describe the game and compute its expected value. Explain what that expected value means. Show every step of your work.