Notes for Homework 4, due Monday July 3

Notes on decibels and bels (measuring sound) and the Richter scale (measuring earthquakes)

Notes on square roots, approximate and simplified, also Pythagorean Theorem problems

Notes on rates at different scales, notably death rates per 100,000 people

 

Notes for Homework 3, due June 28

Notes on interest rates on investments, interest rates on loans and the Consumer Price Index

Notes on rounding to significant digits
 

Notes for Homework 2, due June 26

Notes for converting from binary (base 2) to decimal (base 10) and binary to hexadecimal (base 16)

Notes for the logical operators AND (^), OR (v) and NOT (~)

Converting repeating decimals to fractions in lowest terms

Time problems

Roman numerals

Notes for Homework 1, due June 21

Notes on fractions, decimals and percents, also on primes and prime factorizations.

Notes on repeating decimals and rounding decimals.

Notes on adding and subtracting time.
 

Link to the stories of four famous mathematicians

The biographical data on Archimedes, Newton, Euler and Gauss.