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The Florida Board of Education has asked colleges to design courses for non-math majors to improve students’ mathematical thinking. The intent was to create courses based on projects to measure learning rather than tests and final exams. By definition, projects require students to look at a new problem and then apply concepts that they have learned. Use complete sentences to summarize your experience with the Mini-Projects. Please address the following. Which were your favorite and why?  Which were your least favorite and why? What advice might you give a student taking this course next semester?

Patient A and Patient B are feeling much better. The nurse visits them later in the day to check their blood pressure. Blood pressure is measured in millimeters of mercury. (Early instruments for checking blood pressure used a visual method where the height of mercury in a narrow column corresponded to the patient’s blood pressure.) Typically, mercury is measured as one drop per milliliter. TRUE or FALSE: One drop of mercury is smaller than one common eyedrop.

The dopamine medication prescribed for Patient B is measured in micrograms per minute. The nurse knows that the 80 milligrams of dopamine in the solution is equivalent to 80,000 micrograms. Which unit fraction can be multiplied by micrograms per minute to find how many milliliters of the dopamine infusion solution the nurse should deliver through the IV each minute?

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Thank you for a great semester…  Prepare well for finals and enjoy your winter break!   Drs. Stephenson, Thomas, Russell, Reeves, Santos, and Maczuga

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In rural Southern communities, when the week’s work was done, Saturday nights were reserved for socializing, dancing, drinking, and listening to blues influenced music, often in places called:

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For healthy adults, the first/top number in a blood pressure reading should be less than 120 millimeters of mercury.  Convert 120 millimeters to inches by using the fact that one inch is 25.4 millimeters. Type the numerical answer in the box, including the first decimal place.  

For medications that require a precise flow rate, it is common to use an IV that delivers fluid at a rate of 60 drops per milliliter. This makes it easier to determine the number of drops per minute since the medication is prescribed in milliliters per minute. If Patient B is prescribed 0.225 milliliters per minute of dopamine, determine the number of drops per minute that the nurse should use when setting up the IV. Type the numerical answer in the box, including the first decimal place.