Herbert J. Bernstein
Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science
Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, 1300 William Floyd Parkway, B205, Shirley, NY 11967
90103/93167 MTH 1007 Operations Research
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Fall 2014
On-line Course
Khan Academy Class code: 7TGUP2
Assignments
Important Note: No attachments:
In the following assignments you will need to send spreadsheets to the instructor. Please do not
try to send such spreadsheets directly as attachments.
Instead, please set up a Google sites web site, upload your spreadsheets
to that site and put the URL of your spreadsheet into the email. Sorry for the inconvenience,
but my spam filter will mark most emails with spreadsheet attachments as spam, and I may not
get to see them.
Assignment #1, assigned Tuesday, 2 September 2014, due Tuesday, 9 September 2014 and Tuesday, 16 September 2014
Be certain to get your text books no later than 2 September 2014.
You need to schedule regular Skype meetings with the instructor. For this class the normal time for
group Skype sessions will be 9 pm on Wednesdays. Between now and then, please sign up
for a free Skype account at www.skype.com and send a contact request
to the instructor at the Skype ID yayahjb.
Read Chapter 1 of Abramson, Cosares and Rispoli, pages 1 - 52. Do all the problems, checking
your work on the problems with answers at the back of the book.
Sign up for the Khan Academy (http://www.khanacademy.org) and
make the instructor (yayahjb@gmail.com) your coach for this class by putting the code 7TGUP2 in for your coach.
Be sure to be logged in for all drills so I can monitor your progress.
Review the following Khan Academy Lectures. You should already be familiar with many of
these topics, but it will be worth your while to go through this again to have some of the tools
you need for this course, especially the normal distribution. If you are certain you have all
this material well in hand, you may go straight to the last three lectures on the normal
distribution, but you must at least review those last three lectures:
After you have made it through section 3.2, but no later than 7 October 2014, do
Quiz 5.
After you have complete the readings, but no later than 14 October 2014, do
Quiz 6.
Assignment #4, assigned Tuesday, 21 October 2014, due Tuesday, 28 October 2014,
and Tuesday, 4 November 2014.
The next group Skype meetings will be at 9 pm on
Wednesday, 22 October 2014, Wednesday, 20 October 2014, Wednesday, 5 November 2014
and Wednesday, 12 November 2014. Because of the difficulty of the subject matter
we are moving into, it is very important to participate in as many of these
sessions as possible.
Read Chapter 4 of Abramson, Cosares and Rispoli. Do all the problems,
checking your work on the problems with answers at the back of the book.
Given the difficulty of the subject and this massive set of videos, it
will take a month to cover this material, so there will be 3 quizzes,
one each due on Tuesday, 21 October 2014,
Tuesday, 28 October 2014 and Tuesday, 4 November 2014.
Assignment #5, assigned Tuesday, 4 November 2014, due Wednesday, 12 November 2014.
You should now have completed reading the text and the videos. You
will have one more review quiz and then a final exam. The quiz
is Quiz 10. To get ready for it, you should review all the
material above. The two most difficult topics are Bayesean analysis and
the Simplex method. Pay special attention to those.
Final Exam The final exam will be in given in 3 1-hour
Skype-supervised sessions, one from 9 to 10 pm on Wednesday, 12 November 2014,
one from 9 to 10 pm on Wednesday, 19 November 2014, and
one from 9 to 10 pm on Wednesday, 26 November 2014.
If you have a conflict for any of these dates, contact the instructor
to schedule alternates prior to 4 November 2014. In addition to the 3-part exam,
there will be an additional linear programming problem to do for extra credit
that will given during the first part and due no later then 48 hours later.
To get credit for your solution, you will have to explain
your solution to the instructor in a Skype video sesssion or
face-to-face. Doing that one problem well and being able to
explain your solution well and in detail would be enough to
guarantee a grade for the course of no less than a B and perhaps
better.
For the final you will need a computer with a
webcam, Skype installed and your Dowling student ID card. If you cannot
be available then, you must arrange an alternate date for the
exam with the instructor. You must make the arrangements
on or before 4 November 2014. All work to be considered for grading
other than the final must have been completed and turned in no
later than 5 pm on Tuesday, 4 November 2014.
If you have difficulty with this schedule, please contact the
instructor immediately.
