Math 120 Autumn 2015
Sections A and B
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Ebru Bekyel |
Office hours: MWF 12:30-2:00 in PDL-C
422. I am also available MWF 11:30-12:30 and
2:00-3:00 if you make an appointment. |
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Teaching Assistants |
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AA & AB |
Office Hours: Th 12:00-2:00 at
the MSC |
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AC & AD |
Office
Hours: M 1:30-2:30, Tu 12:00-1:00 at the MSC |
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BA & BB |
Office
Hours: M 11:30-12:30, Th 9:30-10:30 at PDL C132 |
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BC & BD |
Office Hours: M 11:30 - 12:30 in PDL C-113, Th 1:00
- 2:00 at the MSC |
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the times and places of the sections see the schedule. |
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Grading |
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Textbook The textbook for this course
is Precalculus,
by Collingwood, Prince and Conroy. You can purchase a hard copy at
Professional Copy and Print, located at 4200 University Way. An electronic
copy is available at the Math
120 Materials Website and through your homework in webassign. |
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Homework and Webassign |
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Week at a
glance Lectures are on MWF. The
lecture schedule is below. You can do your reading from the textbook before
or after the corresponding lectures. Tuesday and
Thursday quiz sections are for discussing problems. You should go to quiz
sections prepared to ask and answer questions. In general, Thursday’s
assignment will be on the previous Monday’s lecture, Tuesday’s (longer)
assignment will be on Wednesday’s and Friday’s lectures. You will be able to
see your assignments eight days before they are due. You will
have quizzes on most Thursdays. The quizzes are to make sure you are learning
from the homework assignments. If you ask me on Wednesdays, I will tell you
what the quiz question will be on. |
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Announcements and Topics |
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1 |
09/28 |
Chapters 1 and 2 ·
Welcome to Math 120! ·
The Math 120 Materials Website
has the exam archive, textbook information and the syllabus. ·
Before getting started, read A Note to
the Student and the Author Note on page 5 in the textbook.
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The Math Study Center is a great
place to do your homework. ·
Your first assignment is due
Tuesday, 10/06. ·
There is no quiz this week. |
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2 |
10/05 |
Chapters 3 and 4 ·
Here is a triangle
review worksheet and its solutions.
You will find similar pictures and set ups in the story problems. |
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3 |
10/12 |
Chapters 5, 6 and 7 |
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4 |
10/19 |
Chapter 7, review, Chapter 8 Midterm 1 on
Thursday 10/22 ·
There
is a midterm review at CLUE
on Tuesday, 10/20. ·
Solutions
to the first midterm: Version
1 and Version
2 ·
If
you want to redo the midterm with different numbers you can take the other
version. Here are Version
1 and Version
2 |
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5 |
10/26 |
Chapters 9 and 10 ·
Problem 5 in Chapter 10
homework is inspired by a popular
story – Indian or Persian depending on the source. Here is another
version. ·
The problem on the
pumpkin is from Math 126. I could not find a picture with a Math 120 problem.
Happy Halloween! |
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6 |
11/02 |
Chapters 11 and 12 ·
Quiz #4 is on Chapter
9. |
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7 |
11/09 |
Chapters 13 and 14 |
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8 |
11/16 Copper- the dog who runs around the circular lake |
Chapters 15, review, Chapter 16 Midterm 2
on Thursday, 11/19 ·
Midterm
questions will be from Chapters 7-14 although you are responsible for the
previous material by nature of the course. ·
You
can bring an 8.5x11 inch, single-sided, handwritten notesheet.to the exam. We
will collect them and return them with your exams. ·
You
can use a TI 30X-IIS calculator. ·
The
old exams are here. ·
Here
are the solutions to the second midterm: Version
1 and Version
2 |
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9 |
11/23 |
Chapter 17 ·
The
Math Study Center will be open on Wednesday from 9:30 AM to 1:30 PM. It will
be closed through the weekend and reopen on Monday, November 30, at 9:30 AM. |
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10 |
11/30 |
Chapters 18 and 19 ·
Click on the picture on
the left to see how the y-coordinates
on the unit circle (sine values) translate to a graph of the sine function.
The point A moves around the unit circle (I named it P in the lecture). It
has the same height as the point E which is sketching the sine graph. In
lecture I did these in two separate graphs. ·
My office hours on
Friday 12/04 are 12:00-1:00. |
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11 |
12/07 |
Chapter 20 and review ·
Final
Exam Review (Chapters 15-20) ·
Please
read this page for final exam rules. ·
My office hours this week will be MWF
12:30-3:00. ·
I will review optimization on Wednesday.
Here
are the problems. ·
There is no quiz this week. ·
The Math Study Center will be open until
9:30 PM on Friday. ·
Final Exam
is on Saturday 12/12. Final exam places are
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Winter
Break! |
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My Last office hours
will be on Monday 12/14 between1:00 and 3:00. You can come in and see your
final exam. If you cannot make it on Monday, you can always drop by next
quarter to see your final exam. ·
The course grades will
be posted by noon on Tuesday. |