Math 112 College Algebra Section 10

College Algebra, Section 10, Math 112, Spring 2005

Dr. Florence Newberger

Office: FO3-218
Office Phone: (562) 985-5675
email: fnewberg@csulb.edu
web site: http://www.csulb.edu/~fnewberg

Resources and Links
Student Open Access Computer Labs at CSULB (link, lab hours)

Some homework assignments and things that you can download

Worksheet (in class activity, Tuesday January 25)	Click!
Homework: Set Builder Notation and Graphing Inequalities Due: Tuesday, February 1 If you were asked to redo part IC in this assignment for credit: Click! Here is a solution to IIC in this assighment: Click!	Click!
Resource: Purplemath's lesson on graphing inequaliites Be sure to cluck on the link at the bottom of the lesson called "systems of linear inequalities."	Click!
Resource: Extra practice worksheet on graphing inequalities with answers. Click on Section 4.4 at the bottom of the page. Notice that they do not use set builder notation. Make sure you understand how these same questions can be asked using set builder notation.	Click!
Homework: Functions to words Due: Tuesday, February 8	Click!
Homework: Linear Programming Due: Tuesday, February 15	Click!
Resource: Here is a solution to the worksheet that we did in class on Thursday, February 10.	Click!
Exam 1 Review sheet! Exam 1 is on Thursday, February 17	Click!
Computer Lab 1: Linear Regression Due: Tuesday, March 1	Click!
Homework Worksheet: Matrices I Due: Tuesday, March 1	Click!
Homework Worksheet: Matrices II Due: Thursday, March 3 Answers: #1: x=1 y=1 z=2; #2: x=1,y=0,z=1; #3: x=2,y=1,z=0; #4: x=1,y=1,z=-2 We'll talk about #5 more in class on Thursday. If you know an answer, write it.	Click!
Homework: Matrices III Due: Tuesday, March 8	Click!
Homework: Matrices IV Due: Tuesday, March 15	Click!
Exam 2 Review sheet! Exam 2 is on Thursday, March 17	Click!
Computer Lab 2: Matrix multiplication and population models Due: Tuesday, March 29	Click!
Computer Lab 3: Transforming Graphs Due: Tuesday, April 11	Click!
Homework: Functions 1 Due: Tuesday, April 12	Click!
Homework: Functions II Due: Tuesday, April 19	Click!
Exam 3 Review sheet! Exam 3 is on Tuesday, April 19	Click!
Homework: Exponential Functions Due: Tuesday, April 26	Click!
Homework: Log Functions Due: Tuesday, May 3	Click!
Computer Lab 4: Linearizing Exponential and Power Models Due: Tuesday, May 10	Click!
Final Exam Review sheet! Practice using the problems on your old exams. The Final Exam is on Thursday, May 19	Click!

Meeting Times
MATH 112 Section 10 meets Tu-Th 2:00 PM-3:15 PM in LA5 room 245.

Office hours (held in my office: FO3-218)
Feel free to stop by, email or call to schedule an appointment or ask a question!

Tuesdays and Thursdays

3:15-4 and 4:30-5:30

Description:

Topics include: review of algebra; the real number line and the cartesian plane; functions, including lines, quadratic functions, exponential functions and logarithmic functions; and modeling with functions and equations.

Goals:

The goals for the mathematics content of College Algebra for science include:

to increase students' quantitative literacy.
to improve students abilities to explain quantitative concepts using words, tables and diagrams.
to improve students’ reasoning skills
to improve students’ communication skills in the languages of mathematics
to introduce students to spreadsheet software

Required Course Materials:

Text: College Algebra, by Stewart, Redlin and Watson. 4th Edition.

Attendance and participation:
(5% of your course grade). Attendance in class is required. I will try not to be unreasonable about this, so if you need to miss a class, come talk to me about it. At the least, all university rules on excused absences will be excused.

Assignments::

It is my philosophy that:

Teaching is not telling; listening is not learning.

This means that you can expect to spend time actively working on mathematics both in and out of class. Homework assignments will serve two purposes:

Assignments will help students organize and internalize material discussed in class, to help students prepare for exams. Understanding my explanation of the mathematics is very different from solving the problems yourself. You must engage in mathematical activities yourself to really learn the concepts.

Assignments will allow me to assess students' knowledge of material that may not be covered on exams. Homework assignments are not only busy work to help you prepare for test, they also allow me to assess your abilities to work with the material beyond what I can ask you to do in an in class exam. Notice that the homework is worth the same percentage of your grade as an exam.

(20% of your course grade) Hand-graded Homework
You can expect to write up a few of problems to be hand-graded each week. In addition, you may have mini-quizzes from time to time (no surprises).

(15% of your course grade) Computer Projects
There will be four computer projects.

We will use Microsoft Excel to do projects related to each of the four sections of material. Part of the purpose of these projects is to introduce students to using spreadsheets, though we will focus only on the aspects of spreadsheets that we need to study the material. It is my hope that after using the spreadsheets in this fashion, you will gain enough facility with them to be able to figure out how to make a spreadsheet do anything that you may need later in life. We will start each computer project together in a computer classroom. Students will be expected to complete the projects on their own, using their own computers, or using university labs. All computers available for students to use through the university have the Microsoft Excel software.

Tentative Schedule:
Though the exam dates will not change, I may adjust the content to accommodate us if we need more time on a topic, or if we finish a topic ahead of schedule.

Date	Week	Sections
Jan 25,27	1	P2 page 17-19 Interval notation and graphing; 1.6 Inequalities; 2.4 Lines;
Feb 1,3	2	3.1 What is a Function; Focus on Modeling page 505 (Linear Programming)
Feb 8,10	3	Focus on Modeling page 505 (Linear Programing);
Feb 15	4	Review
Feb 17	4	Exam 1
Feb 22	5	Focus on Modeling (Fitting Lines to data) page 203; Computer Lab
Feb 24	5	7.1 Matrices and Systems of Linear Equations
March 1, 3	6	7.1 Matrices and Systems of Linear Equations; 7.2 Algebra of Matrices
March 8	7	7.2 Algebra of Matrices
March 10	7	Discovery Project page 540 (Will the species survive)
March 15	8	Computer Lab
March 17	8	Exam 2
March 21-25	Spring Break
March 29	9	Computer lab; 3.2 Graphs of Functions; 3.4 Transformations of Functions; Computer lab;
March 31	9	Caesar Chavez Holiday
April 5,7	10	3.5 Quadratic Functions; Focus on Modeling page 297 (Modeling with Functions)
April 12, 14	11	3.6 Combining functions; 3.7 One-to-one functions and their inverses
April 19	12	Exam 3
April 21	12	5.1 Exponential Functions
April 26, 28	13	5.2 Logarithmic Functions; Focus on Modeling (Fitting Exponential and Power Curves to Data)
May 3	14	Computer Lab
May 5	14	5.5 Modeling with Exponential and Logarithmic Functions
May 10,12	15	More 5.5; Review and Catch-up

Exams:

Thursday, February 17
Math Exam 1

Thursday, March 17
Math Exam 2

Tuesday, April 19
Math Exam 3

TBA (Verify on CSULB Web site) Cumulative Final Exam

Grades:

Grade Distributions.

Attendance
5%

Homework 20%

Computer Projects
15%

Exam 1 15%

Exam 2 15%

Exam 3
15%

Final Exam 15%

Cut-offs for letter grades.

Attendance Homework Computer Projects
Exam 1
Exam 2 Exam 3
Final Weighted average

A 90 88
90
88
90



B 80 78
80
78
80

C 70 68
70
67
70



D 50 50
50
50
50

Policies: Policies for students with disabilities, make up policies, withdrawal policy and cheating and plagiarism policy: click here!