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o Cara’s Oklahoma All-State Soccer Game Pics
Here are pictures
from the Oklahoma All-State Soccer Game:
Cara's Last High School Soccer Game . (new)
Cara, you can view and download larger
versions of these at http://picasaweb.google.com/cloates/CaraSAllStateSoccerGame#
.
Viewing them may require that you open a g-mail account, but that’s not a bad
thing to have anyway.
The excellent and FREE(!) Picasa
photo editor, organizer, and processor can be downloaded at http://picasa.google.com/ , too.
Congratulations and good luck at OBU!
Also, Amy’s one-month picture set is here:
Amethyst Evelyn Beck--May 28, 2009 . (re-posted)
o Prof. Oates’s Teaching Schedule
Here’s my OCCC schedule
for the Summer 2009 term. (new)
o Congratulations!
My hearty
congratulations go to all my students who’ve graduated this semester! OCCC nursing graduates, I had particularly
wanted to attend your pinning ceremony on Friday, 15 May, but granddad-ly duties prevented my presence. Come by during office hours this summer or
this fall and show me your shiny new pins.
:^) I hope your Math for Health
Careers experience helped you in nursing school and that it’ll be useful in the
future, too.
o Grades and Averages Available
Grades for all
OCCC classes will be posted on mineonline.occc.edu/ by 8:00 a.m., Thursday, 21 May 2009. Here’s a homemade procedure
for viewing your grades for this semester. Also,
your grades for previous semesters can be viewed via the unofficial transcript
option.
Final averages for Prof. Oates’s College Algebra class are
available now on MyMathLab (MML) through the logon
you’ve used all semester and the MML gradebook
button.
Thanks for all your hard work this spring! Have a good summer vacation.
o Thought
Perhaps empty,
reverberating hallways are not the best place to gloat over your success in
cheating on Math 1513 tests—or perhaps they are. :^/
o Graduation Traditions
Here’s some
information about academic costumes and college songs seen and heard at
graduation.
o Top Five Links
The most
frequently accessed links on ChuckOates.com are now indicated by this
mark: (Top 5 Links).
The link having the overall highest number of accesses is indicated by this
mark: (Top 5 Links: Number 1)
o Popular
Pics
Here are
some popular picture sets from recent events and visits:
O.U.'s 2008 Homecoming Parade (Top 5 Links), Cousin Jan & Jim's 50th Wedding Anniversary Party (Top 5 Links),
Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History (Top 5 Links) and the Shattuck (Okla.) Windmill Museum (Top 5 Links).
OCCC
Course Information
O College Algebra, Spring 2009
Math
1513-013 College Algebra (Wed. 5:30 – 8:00 p.m., SEM 1B5)
Materials
Requirements
- The text book is
OPTIONAL, but highly recommended; however, the MyMathLab
package is REQUIRED.
- Also, a three-ring
notebook with at least 1 ½ inch spine and divider pages will also be
required. They’re available in office
supply departments for a few dollars.
Course
Overview Materials
- The Spring 2000
section syllabus and tentative schedule is now available for
MATH 1513-013, Wed. 5:30 – 8:00 p.m., SEM 1B5 .
- Help for the
TI-83/84/84+ calculator is available at www.occc.edu/college_algebra
.
Module
1: Graphs, Functions, and Models
- Instructions for
the linear regression project are available page by page at these
locations:
Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, and Page 4. --
borrowed from Math for HC
Module
2: More on Functions
- Set Theory.
If you’d like a brief introduction
to sets and their operations, i.e., unions, intersections, complements, etc., there
is a brief introduction available in this Wikipedia article. The material in the Basic Operations
section is particularly useful.
- Below
are some answers to questions I’ve received about Pretest 2. (Fall 2008)
There’s an error in the answer to
the pretest’s question 18. The correct
answer is [6, ∞). The answer
that’s given the pretest’s answer section is the domain of (g ◦ f), not
(f ◦ g). Sorry. :^(
In pretest problem
19, what’s required is the algebraic checks that follow. 1) Replace
x with -x and if the function remains unchanged, it's symmetric about the
y-axis. 2) Replace y with -y and if the function remains unchanged,
it's symmetric about the x-axis. 3) Replace both x with -x and y
with -y and if the function remains unchanged, it's symmetric about the
origin. A function can have any combination of these three properties,
including all the properties or none of the properties. The text has a good explanation on page
200. See the purple-shaded box and the
example on that page. I’ll allow more
room for your answer on any similar problem on the actual test.
In
pretest problem 20, I'm looking for the even and odd checking that's defined in
the purple-shaded box at the top of page 202 in the text and carried out
in the example at the bottom of the page. Recall that we developed these
tests informally in class using f(x) = x3 and g(x) = x2
as examples.
Module 6:
Systems of Equations and Matrices
Project: Biography of a Mathematician
- The specification for the Mathematician
Biography Assignment can be found here.
o Math for Health Careers, Summer 2009
All
items in this section © 2000 – 2008
Oklahoma City Community College
Course
Overview Materials
- The Summer 2009
section syllabus and tentative schedule are now available for
APPM 1313-002, Mon-Wed, 5:30 p.m. –
8:00 p.m., SEM 2A5. (new)
- A list of
worksheet titles for all APPM 1313 worksheets is also available.
- The departmental syllabus is available below,
page by page.
Departmental
Syllabus: Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, Page 4, Page 5, Page 6, Page 7, Page 8, Page 9, Page 10, and Page 11.
Module 1
- Practice
Test 1 is available here.
- Worksheets for Module 1 are available
below. Worksheets 2 through 7 are
optional.
Module 1
Worksheets: WS 1, WS 2, WS 3, WS 4, WS 5, WS 6, WS 7, WS 8, WS 9, WS 10, WS 11, WS 12, WS 13, WS 14, WS 15, WS 16, WS 17, WS 42, WS 43, WS 44, WS 45, and WS 46 .
- The material on Roman
numerals is now available. See also
worksheets WS 12 and WS 13, above.
- A Metric_Prefix_Examples table is also available. This table will be part of the conversion
tables on Test 1.
- A Units
Conversion Summary sheet is now available.
This table will also be part of the conversion tables on Test 1.
- The Joint Commission on Accreditation of
Healthcare Organizations (“Jay-co”) requires that hospitals ban the use of
certain confusing abbreviations if the hospital wishes to be accredited. A list of the Forbidden
Abbreviations can be found through the preceding link.
- Enquiring minds want to know the salacious,
unexpurgated, startlingly explicit truth about conversion factors. Learn covert conversion secrets! Discover units furtively pilfered from the
ancient Romans. The NIST Units Conversion Summary has it all. Coming soon to grocery store checkout stands
everywhere! (new! exciting! sensational! different!)
- Have a look at Dr. M. Sanchez’s PowerPoint
presentation on significant
digits and scientific notation. (You
may have to save this to your local disk to view it.)
Module
2
- The worksheets for Module two are:
WS 17, WS 18, WS 19, WS 20, and WS 21 .
The
following are maximum resolution versions of the above worksheets. They’re large files, about 1 Mbyte each. If they
won’t display correctly on your browser, you may need to right-click the link,
select save-target-as, save the file, and then view the file using IrfanView, a free, but powerful viewer available at www.irfanview.com.
WS 18-big, WS
19-big, WS
20-big, and WS
21-big .
- Practice Test 2 is available below, page by
page.
Practice
Test 2: Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, Page 4, Page 5, Page 6, and Page 7
Module
3
- Tactics for Solving
Chapter 10 Problems
Here’s draft
document that describes tactics
for solving IV drip rate problems.
It’s in the “if-then-else-ish” English (also
known as “pseudo-code”) that software people use to describe solution methods
for problems. I hope it’ll help you
organize your solution techniques for Chapter 10’s problems.
- Chapter 10 Problem
Solutions
The text of
several e-mails I’ve sent to students requesting help with Chapter 10
problems can be downloaded here. A new supplementary solutions
digest is also available.
- Practice Test 3 is
available below, page by page.
Practice
Test 3: Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, and Page 4 (with revised answer for problem 16)
- Worksheets for
Module 3 are available below.
Module 3
Worksheets: WS 22, WS 23, WS 24, WS 25, WS 26, and WS 27.
Note
that Worksheet 23, The Five Percent Rule, is no longer used.
Module
4
- Practice Test 4 is available below, page by
page.
Practice
Test 4: Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, and Page 4
- Worksheets for Module 4 are available below.
Module 4
Worksheets: WS 28, WS 29, WS 30, WS 31, WS 32, and WS 33.
- Review Guide for Test 4
A Review Guide for Test 4 is now available.
- Solutions to Five-Step Problem
A solved five-step problem with commentary can be found here.
- Solutions to Module 4 Body Surface Area (BSA) Problems in All Flavors
Here’s
the Guide for Calculations with Body Surface Area (BSA) .
- Solution Guide for Module 4 Dosage Range and
“Is it safe?” Problems
Some
problems in the text and in Worksheet 32 are dosage range or “Is it safe?”
problems. Click this link to receive more information on dosage range/is-it-safe problems.
These problems require that two sets of calculations be made, one for the
- More Module 4 Problem Solutions
Here are some solved problems
drawn from e-mail messages sent to APPM 1313 students recently. These should assist you in working the Module
4 homework.
. - Erratum,
Module 4 Problem from the Textbook
The
text’s incorrect answer to problem 3, page 216 is 9.7 mL/dose. The correct answer is 4.8 mL/dose.
The
previous edition of the text had this same question, but in that edition the
medication label displayed a concentration of 125 mg/5 mL;
since the new label’s concentration is 250 mg/5 mL,
the required number of mL is half that stated in the
answer section.
Module
5
- Practice
Test 5 is available here.
On the
real Test 5, questions 12 – 16 will be replaced by dilution problems similar to
those on Worksheets 40 and 41.
- Help for Module 5 Dilution Problems
When
synthesizing (building) dilution setups, you’ll need this write-up on Chuck's
Quick and Dirty Dilution Technique, CQDDT.
Here’s a
copy of an e-mail response I sent to a student requesting help on Module 5 dilution problems. You should read and try to understand the
material in Worksheets 36 through 39 before reading this document.
- Help for Linear Equations, y = mx + b
Material
describing properties of linear equations is available here.
- Worksheets for Module 5 are available using
the links that follow.
Module
5 Worksheets: WS 34, WS 35,
WS
36, WS 37,
WS
38, WS 39,
WS
40, WS 41,
WS
47, and WS 48.
Landscape-oriented
Versions of Worksheets: WS 38L and WS 39L
Note
that we did the significant digits worksheets (42-46) earlier in the course.
Module
6
- Materials for Computer Projects 1, 2, 3 and 4
are available below, page by page.
Computer Projects: Page
1, Page 2, Page 3, Page 4, Page 5, Page 6, Page 7, Page 8, Page 9, Page 10, Page 11, Page 12, Page 13, and Page 14.
Final
Exam Review
- To review for the final
exam, just have a look at the material for each of the six modules, above. The final exam questions will be drawn from
the module test questions. Three or four
questions from each module will appear on the final exam.
o Math forTechnical Careers
- Here’s some information on multiplying
binomial expressions in the Montessori style. (Top 5 Links: Number 1)
o Intro. to Engineering, R.I.P.
- Just for old times’
sake, here’s Practice Test #3 for OCCC’s
late, great ENGR 1113, Introduction to Engineering.
o View
Your Grades
- Grades for previous semesters
are available on the OCCC MineOnline system. Here’s a procedure
for viewing them.
o Pharmacology Problems Solved by Dimensional Analysis
- Here’s a link to some
pharmacology problems solved by dimensional analysis. This document attempts to show how
dimensional analysis is applied to problems closely related to those we do in
Math for Health Careers.
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Engineering student Randy Le for suggesting the creation of this website.
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Also misspelled as: Charles L. Oats,
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and the University of Oklahoma (O.U.),
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