Instructor's Office Hours: MW 11:00 AM-12:00 PM.
Section E2 meets: MWF 1:00-2:50 PM in 142 Henry Administration Building.
Text and Study Guide
"For All Practical Purposes:
Introduction to Contemporary Mathematics", 7th ed., W.H. Freeman and
Company, NY, NY, 2000, ISBN 0-7167-4783-9.
Course Description
Introduction to selected areas of mathematical sciences through
application to modeling and solution of problems involving networks,
circuits, trees, game theory, encoding, symmetry and tilings, and
geometric growth. The material will be taken from units I through VI in
the text.
Prerequisite
Three years of high school mathematics, including
two years of algebra and one year of geometry.
Make-Up Policy
Grading Policy
Your grade will be based on homework, quizzes, three hour exams and
the final exam. Your work should be readable and organized. All work must be
shown-a bare answer is not enough.
Homework: 10%
Quizzes: 15%
Hour Exams 45%, (15% each)
Final Exam 30%
Scale
A > = 90%
B 80-89%
C 70-79%
D 60-69%
F < 60%
Exams
Exam 1: 2:00-2:50 PM, Friday, March 28, Room 142 Henry
Exam 2: 2:00-2:50 PM, Friday, April 11, Room 142 Henry
Exam 3: 2:00-2:50 PM, Friday, April 25, Room 142 Henry
Final Exam: 1:30-4:30 PM, Wednesday, May 7, Room 142 Henry
Quizzes
A short quiz will be given weekly- unless an exam is
scheduled on that week. The lowest quiz score will be dropped at the end
of the semester.
Homework
A number of problems will be assigned each week to be handed in.
No late homework will be collected or graded. At the end of the semester
the two lowest homework scores will be dropped.
HW assignment 1: problems 4, 7, 12, 21, 33, 34, 50, pages 25-33.
Due Date: 03/14/08.
HW assignment 2: problems 6b; 7; 17 a; 24; 26; 33; 40; 51d; 67;
69a, 75, pages 64-77. Due Date: 03/28/08.
HW assignment 3: problems 12; 19; 29; 37; 44; 46 b & d, pages
110-122. Due Date: 04/04/08.
HW assignment 4: problems 2 a and b; 4 a and b; 6, 19; 21; 24; 26
only the first question, pages 584-588. Due Date: 04/11/08.
HW assignment 5: problems 4; 13; 21; 26; 28; 34, pages
743-752. Due Date: Not to be handed in.
HW assignment 6: problems 8; 21; 26; 28; 34, 50, 52 pages
743-752, and problems 10; 12 b, c; 18; 24; 28; 30 pages 785-791. Due
Date: 04/25/08.
Scores
to check your scores click
here and then
select 'Score reports'.
Other Announcements
The coordinator for this class is
A. Ahlgren.
Click here for a practice test for the first hour exam. The review for the first exam will be on Wednesday, March 25 from 5 to 6:30 PM in room 147 AH. The first exam will cover chapters 1 and 2 in the book.
The second quiz will cover sections 3.1 - 3.4 and will take place on
Friday, April 4.
The review for the second hour exam will be on Thursday, April 10 from 6 to 7:30 PM in room 143 AH. This second exam will cover chapters 3 and 15 in the textbook. Click here for a practice test for the exam.
The review for the third hour exam will be on Thursday, April 24 from 6 to 7:30 PM in room 143 AH. This third exam will cover chapters 19 and 20 in the textbook. Click here for a practice test for the exam.
The FINAL EXAM is on Wednesday, May 7 from 1:30 to 4:30 PM in the room that we have been using throughout the semester (142 Henry). Click here for some review problems. The exam is cumulative and will cover Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, sections 1 through 4 from Chapter 15, Chapter 19, and sections 1 through 4 from Chapter 20.
Bonus Material