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1. Week 1 - Jan 7-11

2. Week 2 - Jan 14-18

3. Week 3 - Jan 21-25

4. Week 4 - Jan 28 - Feb 1

5. Week 5 - Feb 4 - 8

6. Week 6 - Feb 11 - 15

7. Week 7 - Feb 18 - 22

8. Week 8 - Feb 25 - Mar 1

9. Week 9 - Mar 4 - 8

10. Week 10 - Mar 11 - 15

11. Exam Week Mar 18 - 22

Thursday 2/14

Topics for discussion

Discussion of homework

• Arithmetic in other bases
• Modular arithmetic

Return to Spirals and Fibonacci

• Find various spirals connecting spiraling points on a sheet of paper
• Count the numbers on a real pineapple (the spots and also the leaves)
• Can we figure out what is going on?

More Fibonacci

• The reason for the Pascal pattern
• Honeybee path
  

Geometrical method for GCD

• Whirling rectangles
• Euclidean algorithm
  

Assignment

• Choose a topic for a final paper.
• Continue working on some problems from the pdf worksheets from last time.