Lecture | Day | Date | Topic | Reading | |
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1 | M | 9/1 | Course introduction; Intro to problem solving | -- | |
2 | W | 3 | In class "pretest" | -- | |
3 | F | 5 | Intro to financial math; Simple interest | 3.2 | |
4 | M | 8 | Compound interest I (solving for F and P) | 3.3 | |
W | 10 | Serve Day -- No Class! | -- | ||
5 | F | 12 | Compound interest II (solving for time; inflation) | 3.3 | |
6 | M | 15 | Regular (ongoing) savings plans | 3.4 | |
7 | W | 17 | Savings plans, cont.; Multi-step problem solving | -- | |
8 | F | 19 | Introduction to Loans ("Add-on" loans) | -- | |
9 | M | 22 | Loans continued (Amortized loans) | 3.5 | |
10 | W | 24 | Loans (cont.): Amortization schedules | 3.5 | |
11 | F | 26 | Home Loans (reduction strategies) | -- | |
12 | M | 29 | Review for exam | -- | |
13 | W | 10/1 | Exam: Financial mathematics | -- | |
14 | F | 3 | Introduction to spreadsheets (mathematical models) | -- | |
15 | M | 6 | Spreadsheets II: Building savings plan models | -- | |
16 | W | 8 | Spreadsheets III: Building loan models | -- | |
17 | F | 10 | Spreadsheets IV: Solving for time, charting interest vs. principal | -- | |
M | 13 | Mid-Semester Holiday -- No Class! | -- | ||
18 | W | 15 | Spreadsheets V: Building amortization schedules | -- | |
19 | F | 17 | Spreadsheets VI: Review | -- | |
20 | M | 20 | Exam: Spreadsheets | -- | |
21 | W | 22 | Project #1 Introduction: Creating Your Personal Financial Plan | -- | |
23 | F | 24 | Probability (Introduction) | 4.1 | |
24 | M | 27 | Probability: events involving "and" / "or" | 4.3,4 | |
25 | W | 29 | Probability: events involving "not" | 4.1,6 | |
26 | F | 31 | Counting methods I (basic counting law) | 4.5 | |
27 | M | 11/3 | Probability problems using counting | 4.6 | |
28 | W | 5 | Expected value (Introduction) | 4.7 | |
29 | F | 7 | Expected value (cont.) | 4.7 | |
30 | M | 10 | Review for exam | -- | |
31 | W | 12 | Exam: Probability | -- | |
32 | F | 14 | Intro to Math of Statistics (Project #2 introduced) | -- | |
33 | M | 17 | Organizing and presenting data I (Spreadsheet applications) | 5.1 | |
34 | W | 19 | Organizing and presenting data II (Spreadsheet applications) | 5.1 | |
35 | F | 21 | "Typical" and "central" values (averages) | 5.2 | |
36 | M | 24 | Measures of spread: variation and standard deviation | 5.3 | |
37 | W | 26 | Exam: Statistics | -- | |
F | 28 | Happy Thanksgiving -- No Class!! | -- | ||
38 | M | 12/1 | Project presentations | -- | |
39 | W | 3 | Project presentations | -- | |
40 | F | 5 | Project presentations | -- | |
41 | M | 8 | Project presentations | -- | |
42 | W | 10 | Project Presentations | -- | |
43 | F | 12 | Review for Final Exam | -- | |
TBD | TBD | TBD Final Exam | -- |
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