Week 4 Assignment:

Applets and Internet Resources

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Applets

Title Description
Pascal's Triangle Applet An applet which shows Pascal's Triangle and plays out various animations to demonstrate the properties of Pascal's Triangle.
Pascal's Traingle Geogebra Applet Applet showing Pascal's triangle allowing for a variable number of rows with coloring available for numbers that are a multiple of a selectable n.
Pascal's Triangle This is a interactive activity allowing you to fill in the entries of Pascal's triangle, and (on other pages) color in different modulus' within the triangle.
Coloring Multiples in Pascal's Triangle This website 'rolls' a random value and asks you to color in the numbers of pascals triangle that are a multiple of that rolled number.
Pascal's Triangle and Binomial Expansion This interactive website has students use Pascal's Triangle (with entries missing that you can drag into the appropriate spot within the triangle)to expand polynomials as a set of Challenge Quizzes.
Patterns in Pascal's Triangle This webpage generates a lesson plan based on the Standard Addressed and The Textbook Alighment. It also leads to the interactive activity examples.

Applet Collections

Title Description
Pascal Triangle Web Sources A collection of links Applets related to Pascal's Triangle
Math Forum Internet Mathematics Library A collection of links to Applets and websites for a huge variety of mathematics and statistics topics facilitated by The Math Forum at NCTM, including Pascal's Triangle
Pascal's Triangle and Binomial Expansion This is a small collection of applets on cK-12 related to Pascal's Triangle and Pascal's Pyramid
Cut the Knot Includes a wide variety of applets and other web based links regarding Patterns in Pascal's Triangle. Includes a method of generating the Catalan Numbers from Pascal's Triangle.
Boston University: Teaching Notes for the Patterns in Pascal's Triangle Problem Includes a wide variety of applets and other web based links regarding Patterns in Pascal's Triangle. Most of these links go to handouts, not applets, but I thought this still seemed to count.

Resources

Title Type Description
OEIS Website The Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences; a website allowing users to search for sequences of integers, which will be particularly be useful (as it was for me) to discover the sequence of Catalan numbers for the first time.
Series and Sigma Summation Notation Video An introduction (or for the students in our class, a detailed review) to the concept of series, and writing finite and infinite series using sigma notation. While this video is great, it is likely not necessary to be watched in it's entirety by the students in our Math 5010 course.
Khan Academy: Intro to the Binomial Theorem Video An overview of the Binomial Theorem presented as a lecture with examples.
Khan Academy: Pascal's Triangle and binomial expansion Video As a suplement, see Khan Academy: Binomial Expansion and Combinatorics
Khan Academy: Binomial Probability example (10:23) + Generalizing k scores in n attempts (4:12) Video As a highly recommended supplement, see Khan Academy: Combination formula
Wikipedia: Catalan Numbers Website A wikipedia page detailing the Catalan numbers. See especially Applications in Combinatorics, number of monotonic lattice paths along the edges of a grid with n × n square cells, which do not pass above the diagonal, and Second Proof (very straightforward, relatively easy to understand)
Website: The Catalan Numbers Website: Article Medium article detailing The Catalan Numbers with historical background and examples.
Generalized Binomial Coefficients Website A website noting both the 'typical' and generalized binomial coefficient formulas. See especially equations for (3) and (4).
Binomial Series Video This is a video by The Organic Chemistry Tutor where they explains how to use the binomial series to represent a function as power series in sigma notation or summation notation. It is CRUTIAL that we go over the example at 30:45 for 1 over the square root of 1-x.
Taylor series: Binomial Series 1 Video This is a video by DaveAcademy going through the derivation of the Binomial Series as a Taylor Series.
Pascal's Triangle Website Published by Math is Fun, this site details some of the properties of Pascal's triangle in an easy to understand way.
Dear Colleague Letter Article An Overleaf LaTeX document compiled for Math 4400 in the Spring of 2020, detailing the original problem (and importantly, solution) which inspired this entire project.