Professor: Ron Gould

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Text: Mathematics in Games, Sports, and Gambling by R. Gould, CRC Press

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Exams and Grades:

There will be two in-class hour exams and a final. In class exams are scheduled for: Monday, October 5 and Friday, November 20

• Hour exams count 30% each, the final 30%, the remaining 10% will come from homeworks.
  The final exam is scheduled for Wednesday, December 16 from 8:30-11:00 AM in our classroom.
  
  
• Assignments will consist of some individual assignments and some team assignments. Homework teams of two or three people will be formed. Each team should work together to complete each team homework assignment. One paper should be submitted from each team, with all team members names on the paper.
  
  
• For grades, a fundamentally straight scale will be employed, that is, I expect to use the following:

90 and above average - A

80-89 - B

70-79 - C

60-69 - D

below - F

• Plus and minus grades within these ranges will be given at my discretion.

OUR GOALS: Our goals are to gain an insight into probability and statistics as well as some topics in discrete mathematics. We will use the models of various games and sports as our examples. We will see many unusual instances where knowing some elementary mathematics can gain us an advantage or insight into a topic. Applications will be stressed.

Policy: Cell phones and other devices are shut off when you are in class.

Reading Assignments:

Posted as they become necessary

Read Appendix on Set Theory (pages 319-325) by September 2.

Read Chapter 1, sections 1.1-1.3 by Sept. 4

Read Chapter 1, section 1.4 by Sept. 9

Chapter 1 sections 1.5-1.8 by Sept. 21

Section 1.9 by Sept. 25

Chapter 2 Sections 2.1-2.4 by Oct. 2

Chapter 4 Sections 4.2, 4.2.1 (pages 135-140), sections 4.4.1, 4.4.2, 4.4.3 Chapter 2 Section 2.8

Chapter 2 Sections 2.5, 2.6 by Oct. 30

Chapter 3 Sections 3.1-.3.3 by Nov. 6

Chapter 7 Section 7.2, 7.3

Chapter 8 Sections 8.1-8.3 by Nov. 16

Written Assignments:

Posted as necessary

• Assignment 1: Individual Assignment: pages 323-325: problems 9.1.1 parts 3 and 4; 9.1.2 parts 1, 2 and 3; 9.1.4; 9.1.6 Due Sept. 4.



• Assignment 2: Individual Assignment: pages 11-12 problems 1.3.2, 1.3.3, 1.3.5, 1.3.7 and pages 21-23 problems 1.4.5, 1.4.8, 1.4.9 and 1.4.11 Due Sept. 11



• Assignment 3: Individual Assignment: section 1.5, problems 1.5.3, 1.5.5, 1.5.7, 1.5.9, section 1.8, problems 1.6.2, 1.6.3, 1.6.4, 1.6.9 Due Sept. 18



• Assignment 4: Team Assignment: Section 1.7 problems 1.7.1, 1.7.2, 1.7.4, Section 1.8 problems 1.8.1, 1.8.3, 1.8.8, Section 1.9 problems 1.9.1, 1.9.3



• Assignment 5: Team Assignment: Section 2.2 problems 2.2.5, 2.2.7 Section 2.3 problems 2.3.2, 2.3.4, 2.3.7 Section 2.4 problems 2.4.1, 2.4.7



• Assignment 6: Team Assignment: Section 4.2: Problems 4.2.2, 4.2.3, 4.2.5 Section 2.8: Problems 2.8.4, 2.8.5, 2.8.9, 2.8.11 Due Monday, Oct.26



• Assignment 7: Team Assignment: Section 2.5: Problems 2.5.3, 2.5,4, 2.5.5 Section 2.6: Problems 2.6.1, 2.6.3, 2.6.4 Due: Monday Nov. 2



• Assignment 8: Team Assignment: Section 3.2 Problems 3.2.1, 3.2.2, 3.2.6, 3.2.10 Section 3.3: Problems 3.3.1, 3.3.2, 3.3.5 Due Monday, Nov. 9



• Assignment 9: Team Assignment: Section 7.3 Problem 7.3.4 Section 8.2 Problems 8.2.2, 8.2.3, 8.2.5(1) Section 8.3 Problems 8.3.2, 8.3.3 Due by Wed. Nov 18