Tuesday, April 7, in class, worth 20%.
You may not use books, notes, or electronic devices on the test.
Material
Chapters 3 and 4
and all homework to date. Use your lecture notes and
homework as a guide to the level at which you are expected to master the
material.
But you are expected to study and understand the underlying methods
and to be able to apply these methods in new
situations.
How to study
To study, first make summary notes of the important ideas and methods
from each section.
Wherever possible, express the methods as algorithms or
checklists (step 1, step 2, and so on) so that you have a plan of action
for each type of problem.
If you just work problems without first making
summary notes, you will probably be wasting your time, because you won't
have a mental framework into which to fit the examples you are working.
It is the underlying methods and techniques that we care about; we
work examples to show that we understand the techniques.
Re-work all homework problems, and quiz problems.
Work through relevant examples in the text. Attempt other exercises.