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Samples from the PROMYS for Teachers and Park City Mathematics Institute Programs PROMYS Academic Year Seminar March 27, 2009 Seminar activity: Squares, circles, sums, and related curiosities (PDF) May 9, 2008 seminar presentations Andy Katz, Investigating the Simplex Lock: A Mathematical Adventure (PDF) Patrick Harless, The Trading Game Buyer and Seller Cards (Excel Spreadsheet) Value and Cost of Cards (Excel) Trading Game Analysis Handout (PDF) December 17, 2007 seminar presentations Octavia Brauner, "The Check is in the Mail" (PDFs) Student Handout Presentation Slides October 29, 2007 seminar presentations Shawn Plassman (MSWord format) Section 1.1 Numbers as a System Section 1.2 Real Numbers and Their Properties Section 1.3 Prime Numbers Sieve of Eratosthenes Section 1.4 Modular Arithmetic Section 1.5 Complex Numbers Numbers and Their Properties Matching Unit 1 Mid Unit Review Unit 1 Quiz Unit 1 Test Patrick Harless DG Example A (JPG) DG Example B (JPG) Strategy Game (write up) (MSWord) Strategy Game Analyses 1 (PDF) Strategy Game Analyses 2 (PDF) Strategy Game Analyses 3 (PDF) Notes on Proof (MSWord) Can you MU (MSWord) Can You MU analysis (MSWord) MU Analysis 1 (PDF) MU Analysis 2 (PDF) MU Analysis 3 (PDF) April 10, 2006 seminar at EDC Preview of this year's PCMI materials. Click here to download a PDF version. January 20, 2006 seminar at EDC Algebra Problem Sets from Dave Srebnick. Dave says, "These problem sets correspond to the McDougal Littell Algebra 1, an Integrated Approach, (c) 1991. I use them for my 8th grade honors class." Chapter 1 (Word) Chapter 2 (Word) Chapter 3 (Word) Chapter 4 (Word) Chapter 5 (Word) Here are the files for my "concrete" algebra class. We use UCSMP Algebra 1, (c) 1998. PSCh4C, the set for the 4th chapter, is under development. Chapter 1 (Word) Chapter 2 (Word) Chapter 3 (Word) Chapter 4 (Word) October 8, 2004 seminar at EDC Vector combinations (a Geometer's Sketchpad file) Past PCMI and PfT seminar materials Each of the following PDF files can be read with the Adobe Acrobat Reader, available for free download by clicking here. Be sure to open the "Read Me" file first (it contains a description of the subsequent files). Read Me (Descriptions of remaining files) PCMI Problem Set 2001 PCMI Problem Set 2002 PCMI Problem Set 2003 CAS and roots of unity CAS, Probability, and Generating Functions Mathematics of Task Design Sums of Squares Problems Sums of Squares Overheads Fitting Polynomials to Data Cryptography 1 Cryptography 2 Iterated Functions-Chaos Introduction PCMI Preview for PROMYS Teachers