Calendar and Coursenotes: Fall 2009

This page will show what we cover each day, including the course notes covered in class. The full course notes covered so far during the semester can always be found here.

Reading assignments are also posted for each week. The intention is that you will have finished the reading for that week by the end of the week (that is, typically you would be expected to read material after the associated lecture). However, some folks like to read it before the lecture, so I will try to get it up by the beginning of the week if I can. Note that reading for the week will often be relevent to the homework due the following Tuesday.

Week
Topics/Assignments
Readings
1: 8/24-8/28 M|T: Introduction, WASI
  • Course introduction. Take the Whimbey Analytical Skills Inventory (WASI)
W|R: Review WASI
  • Discuss the WASI
  • Start on picking partners
Fri, Aug. 28: Homework Assignment 1 due: Myers-Briggs (MB) 		Coursenotes: slides 1-8
2: 8/31-9/4 M|T: Errors in Reasoning
  • Finish WASI discussion
  • Thinking aloud and working in pairs
  • In class exercise: Several people "think aloud" to solve simple problems, some with a "watching" partner
  • Have student partner picked out
W|R:
  • Getting started with a problem; learning styles
  • In Class Exercise: Pairs Problem solving
  • Last chance to pick partner for Homework 3
Fri, Sept. 4: Homework Assignment 2 due: Learning Inventories test.

M|T: 

W|R: 
3: 9/7-9/11 M|T: 
  • Myers-Briggs; Learning styles
W|R:
  • Verbal Reasoning
  • In Class Exercise: Problem solving

Thu., Sept. 10: Homework Assignment 3 due: Pairs problem solving.

M|T: 

W|R: 
4: 9/14-9/18 M|T: 
  • Analogy problems
  • In Class: Lots of problems
  • In Class: quiz
W|R:
  • Heuristics: Externalize
  • In Class: Lots of problems
Thu, Sept. 17: Homework Assignment 4 due: Analogies.

M|T: 

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5: 9/21-9/25 M|T: 
  • Heuristics: Visualize
  • In Class: Lots of problems
W|R:
  • Succeeding as a student

Fri, Sept. 25: Homework Assignment 5 due: Numeric & graph problems.

M|T: 

W|R: 
6: 9/28-10/2 M|T: 
  • Midterm-1
W|R:
  • Discuss Midterm

Fri, Oct. 2: Homework Assignment 6 due: Soduku-type problems, pairs.
Fri, Oct. 2: Last day to drop

7: 10/5-10/8 M|T: 
  • Heuristics: Special Features
  • In Class: problems
Wed, Oct. 7: Homework Assignment 7 due: Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument.

W|R:

  • Heuristics: Go to the extremes; Simplify
  • In Class: problems

Friday, October 9: Fall break, classes cancelled

M|T: 

W|R: 
8: 10/12-10/16 M|T: 
  • Analysis of Trends; lateral thinking
  • In Class: problems

W|R:

  • Heruistics: Sleep on it, Penultimate Step, Symmetry, pigeonhole
    principle, invariants
  • In Class: problems

Thu, Oct. 15: Homework Assignment 8 due: Chain, IQ, River.

M|T: 

W|R: 
9: 10/19-10/23 M|T: 
  • Deductive and Hypothetical Reasoning
  • In Class: problems

W|R:

  • Making an Argument & Presentation

Thu, Oct. 22: Homework Assignment 9 due: Lateral Thinking.

M|T: 

W|R: 
10: 10/26-10/30 M|T: 
  • Computational Problem Solving
  • In Class: Quiz: Heuristics on Heuristics List

Wed, Oct. 28: Homework Assignment 10 due: Yellow-Out.

W|R:

  • Problem Solving applied to Programming

M|T: 

W|R: 
11: 11/2-11/6 M|T: 
  • Problem solving in-the-large
  • Process, intro

Wed, Nov. 4: Homework Assignment 11 due: Lateral thinking revisited.

W|R:

  • Defining the problem

M|T: 

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12: 11/9-11/13 M|T: 

Wed, Nov. 11: Homework Assignment 12 due: Simulation program.

W|R:

M|T: 

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13: 11/16-11/20 M|T: 

Wed, Nov. 18: Homework Assignment 13 due

W|R:

  • Estimation, optimization, statistics, proofs
  • In-class activity: KT PPA

M|T: 

W|R: 
14: 11/30-12/4 M|T: 
  • Estimation, optimization, statistics, proofs

Wed, Dec. 2: Homework Assignment 14 due

W|R:

  • Interpersonal problem solving

M|T: 

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15: 12/7-12/9 M|T: 
  • Course Wrap-up, WASI

Wed, Dec. 9: Homework Assignment 15 due

W:

  • Course Evaluation
16: 12/16
Final Exam: Wednesday Dec. 16th @ 11:05AM

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