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Week 1:
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T Sept 25 |
"Other" Homework
Register with My Math Lab (MML) - MML Registration - CourseID: cotton97713
Here is a guide to walk you through all of the aspects of MML: Guide
Check E-mail & Complete E-mail assignment - Due Thursday
If you have not received an e-mail from me by 5pm tonight, send me an e-mail from your WOU student e-mail account and request the e-mail assignment from me.
If you added the course today, send me an e-mail from your WOU student e-mail account and request the e-mail assignment from me.
Textbook Homework
No Textbook homework tonight
MML Homework
MML - Orientation Assignment
Reading Homework
Read course syllabus
Read Section 5.2 - pgs 243-248
For each "Reading homework" I recommend doing all of the examples on paper by-hand and ensuring that you understand why each step is being done. If you don't understand, write a note to yourself in the margin of your paper, and ask me and/or a tutor for clarification. This won't actually be collected for credit, but it will probably raise your overall course grade by at least 10 percentage points.
Read Section 5.3 - pgs 252-256
Read Section 5.4 - pgs 259-265
Read Section 6.2 - pgs 324-328
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| R Sept 27 |
Textbook Homework
Chapter 5: - Due Tuesday
SS 5.2 - pg 249 - #3, 43, 44
SS 5.3 - pg 257 - #13, 42, 69, 70, 71, 72
SS 5.4 - pg 266 - #73, 74, 82
Chapter 6: - Due Tuesday
SS 6.1 - pg 322 - #42 (hint: try problem 41), 62
SS 6.2 - pg 329 - #22, 49
SS 6.3 - pg 337 - #68, 72
MML Homework
MML - 5.2 - Functions
MML - 5.3 - Function Notation
MML - 5.4 - Finding Linear Equations
MML - 6.2 - Using Substitution to Solve Systems - Start working on this; due Thurs., Oct 4
MML - 6.3 - Using Elimination to Solve Systems - Start working on this; due Thurs., Oct 4
Reading Homework
Read Section 6.3 - pg 330-336
Read Section 7.1 - pg 378-387
Read Section 7.2 - pg 391-397
Read Section 7.3 - pg 399-405
Read/Review the following sections:
A.1 - A.7 on pgs 922-924
A.18 on pg 929
A.20 - A.23 on pg 930
A.25 on pg 931
A.26 on pgs 931-933 about the following errors:
Syntax, Window Range, No Sign Change, Nonreal Answer, Divide by Zero
"Other" Homework
Reset your calculator memory (if you didn't already do it in class today):
Turn calculator on & press the following keys: [2nd], [+], [7], [1], [2]
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Week 2:
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T Oct 2 |
Textbook Homework
None
MML Homework
Finish MML - 6.2 - Using Substitution to Solve Systems
Finish MML - 6.3 - Using Elimination to Solve Systems
MML - 7.1 - Add. & Sub. Polynomial Expressions
MML - 7.2 - Mult. Polynomial Expressions and Functions
Reading Homework
Read Section 7.4 - pg 407-412
Read pages 579-584 - You may stop at the end of Example 8
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| R Oct 4 |
Textbook Homework
Chapter 7: - Due Tuesday
SS 7.1 - pg 388 - #69, 70, 71, 72, 74, 76, 78, 80, 86
The following applies to any graphing problem: Do NOT graph more than one graph on a coordinate system unless they relate to the same situation/problem. Include a scale. Make sure your scale is consistent. Label your axes when appropriate. Graph carefully.
Hint: If you're not sure what something means, look in the index for where you might find that topic discussed in the book, search the internet, ask a tutor, etc.
SS 7.2 - pg 397 - #76, 78, 88, 94
SS 7.3 - pg 405 - #64, 68, 74, 76, 84, 92, 94, 96, 97
SS 7.4 - pg 413 - #72, 76, 80
MML Homework
MML - 7.3 - Powers of Polynomials; Binomial Conjugates
MML - 7.4 - Properties of Exponents
Reading Homework
Read Section 8.1 - pg 423-428
Read Section 8.2 - pg 431-436
Read Section 8.3 - pg 438-444
Read Handout - Which Factoring Method Should I Use?
Other Homework
Take the practice test in MML (Quizzes & Tests tab) several times. If you get 100% 3 times in a row, you'll probably be fine when you take the real one.
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Week 3:
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T Oct 9 |
MML Homework - Due Monday, Oct 15, the night before the exam. Although you don't need to finish all of this by Thursday, try to do as much as possible because we're going to use all of these strategies to solve equations in Section 8.5
MML - 8.1 - Factoring Trinomials a=1 & Diff. of Squares
MML - 8.2 - Factoring GCF; Factoring by Grouping
MML - 8.3 - Factoring Trinomials; ac Grouping
MML - 8.4 - Sums and Differences of Cubes
Reading Homework
Read Section 8.4 - pg 423-428
Read Section 8.5 - pg 431-436
Other Homework
Continue to take the practice test in MML (Quizzes & Tests tab). We'll take it again next week as part of the exam.
Study for Exam 1 - Chapters 5, 6, 7, & 8
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Skills Test
in-class attempt #1 |
| R Oct 11 |
MML Homework - Due Monday, Oct 15, the night before the exam
MML - 8.5 - Using Factoring to Solve Polynomial Eqns.
Other Homework
Continue to take the practice test in MML (Quizzes & Tests tab). We'll take it again next week as part of the exam.
Study for Exam 1 - Chapters 5, 6, 7, & 8
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Week 4:
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T Oct 16 |
No homework tonight. Enjoy the next 46 hours |
-- EXAM 1 --
Skills Test
in-class attempt #2
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| R Oct 18 |
MML Homework
MML - Perfect Square Trinomials
If you want to do 9.1, it won't hurt. We know how to do most of it from class today.
Reading Homework
Read Section 9.1 - pg 477-484
Read Section 9.2 - pg 488-496
Read this - Completing the Square Notes - Cover page - Passed out in class. Save this. It's important!
Read these examples Completing the Square Notes - Situation I - Converting to Vertex Form - I did not pass this out in class. These are worked examples if you'd like some examples for your own notes. -- link updated
Other Homework
Complete this - Completing the Square Homework - Part 1
Keep this - Parabola Graphing Practice - We did this entire thing in class. Hold onto it.
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Week 5:
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T Oct 23 |
MML Homework
MML - 9.1 - Graphing Quad Functions in Vertex Form
MML - 9.3 - Simplifying Radical Expressions
MML - 9.4 - Square Root Property to Solve Quad Eqns.
Reading Homework
Read Section 15.2 - pg 895-897 - Stop just before "Dividing Complex Numbers"
Read Section 15.3 - pg 901-902 - Just these two pages; not "Equation of a Circle"
Read pg 488-491 - Stop when you get to "Method 2"
Other Homework
Read these examples Completing the Square Notes - Situation II - Solving a One-Variable Quadratic Equation - I did not pass this out in class. These are worked examples if you'd like some examples for your own notes.
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| R Oct 25 |
MML Homework
MML - 15.2 & 15.3 - Complex Numbers & Pythagorean
MML - 9.5 - Solving Quad Eqns. by Completing the Square
MML - 9.2 - Graphing Quad Functions in Standard Form
Reading Homework
Read Section 9.6 - pg 527-535
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Week 6:
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T Oct 30 |
MML Homework
MML - 9.6 - Using the Quad Formula to Solve Quad Eqns.
MML - 9.7 - Solve Systems of Linear Eqns in 3 Vars
Reading Homework
None
Other Homework
We did this worksheet in class: Chapter 9 Review - Keep it and review it - Nothing to turn in.
Complete this worksheet: Parabolas - We did parts "a" through "g" in class. Finish the rest - Due Thursday, November 1
Study for Exam 2
Exam 2 will focus on Chapter 9, and the portion that we covered from Chapter 15
There may be things from the early part of the course that show up on the exam (i.e. skills test items)
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| R Nov 1 |
MML Homework
None
Reading Homework
None
Other Homework
Study for Exam 2
Exam 2 will focus on Chapter 9, and the portion that we covered from Chapter 15
There may be things from the early part of the course that show up on the exam (i.e. skills test items)
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Week 7:
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T Nov 6 |
Reading Homework
Read pages 584-588 - Start at Example 8 - This is a continuation of the reading picked up from wher you left off on October 2
Read Section 10.2 - pg 592-597
Read Section 10.3 - pg 599-604
Read Section 12.1 - pg 696-705
"Other" Homework
Get caught up on MML stuff
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| R Nov 8 |
Textbook Homework
Chapter 10: - Due Tuesday
SS 10.1 - pg 589 - #52, 64, 68, 80, 82, 102, 108, 114
SS 10.2 - pg 597 - #35, 37, 48, 69, 74
SS 10.3 - pg 604 - #6, 14, 24, 28, 36, 84
MML Homework
MML - 10.1 - Integer Exponents
MML - 10.2 - Rational Exponents
MML - 10.3 - Graphing Exponential Functions
Reading Homework
Read Section 12.1 - pg 696-705
Read Section 12.2 - pg 709-715
Read Section 12.3 - pg 718-729
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Week 8:
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T Nov 13 |
MML Homework
MML - 12.1 - Domains of Rational Functions
MML - 12.2 - Mult. & Div. Rational Expressions
MML - 12.3 - Add. & Sub. Rational Expressions
Reading Homework
Yeah, I forgot to assign reading homework tonight
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| R Nov 15 |
Textbook Homework
Chapter 12: - Due Tuesday
Section 12.1 - pg 706 - #21, 27, 56, 81, 84, 88
Section 12.2 - pg 716 - #80, 85, 94, 96
Section 12.3 - pg 729 - #66, 92, 96, 98 (Hint: for #98, look back to # 66)
Section 12.5 - pg 749 - #18, 26, 82, 86
MML Homework
MML - 12.4 & 12.7 - Miscellaneous Homework
MML - 12.5 - Solving Rational Equations
Reading Homework
Read Section 13.1 - pg 795-803
Read Section 13.2 - pg 805-812
Read Section 13.3 - pg 815-820
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Week 9:
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T Nov 20 |
Textbook Homework
None
MML Homework
MML - 12.7 & 12.8 - Triangles & Direct/Inverse Variation
MML - 13.1 - Simplifying Radical Expressions
MML - 13.2 - Add., Sub., & Mult. Radical Expressions
Reading Homework
Read Section 13.3 - pg 815-820
Read Section 13.4 - pg 822-826
Read Section 13.5 - pg 829-837
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| R Nov 22 |
Thanksgiving Day - Academic Holiday: NO CLASS |
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Week 10:
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T Nov 27 |
Textbook Homework
None
MML Homework
MML - 13.3 - Rationalizing Denominators and Simp. Quot.
MML - 13.4 - Graphing Radical Functions
MML - 13.5 - Solving Radical Equations
Other Homework
Study for Final Exam
Bring questions for Thursday
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| R Nov 29 |
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Week 11: Finals
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Tuesday, Dec 4 |
-- FINAL EXAM --
8 am - 9:50 am
Location: MNB 104 -- the classroom we're usually in on Tuesdays |
-- FINAL EXAM -- |