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Text: Excursions in Modern Mathematics, Prentice Hall This semester course is intended for the college bound student who may otherwise elect not to take a math course during his junior or senior year. Discrete Mathematics is a study of contemporary mathematices including many varied topics such as networks (graphs), counting methods, scheduling, voting theory, logic, fair apportionment, recursion, game theory, and matrices. The mathematics included in this course is very practical and would involve answering questions like these: How many ways can a newspaper delivery route be scheduled? Which route is the most efficient? How are the House of Representatives apportioned among the fifty states? How does an annuity work? Students will use technology such as spreadsheets and/or graphics calculators during the course. The course may be taken before, after, or concurrently with Analysis. Note that students who are considering any math related field should not take Discrete Math in lieu of Analysis/Calculus but may wish to take it in addition to these courses. Discrete Math will be offered in alternating semesters with Statistics and Probability. |