Math 120 Autumn 2015
Sections A and B

 

Instructor

 

 

Ebru Bekyel

contact

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.

Teaching Assistants

 

 

Michael Shrieve

AA & AB

Office Hours: Th 12:00-2:00 at the MSC

Jacob Richey

AC & AD

Office Hours: M 1:30-2:30, Tu 12:00-1:00 at the MSC

Amy Wiebe

BA & BB

Office Hours: M 11:30-12:30, Th 9:30-10:30 at PDL C132

Alexander Voet

BC & BD

Office Hours: M 11:30 - 12:30 in PDL C-113, Th 1:00 - 2:00 at the MSC

For the times and places of the sections see the schedule.

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Calculator
You have to use a TI 30X-IIS calculator in the exams and quizzes. The bookstore carries it in orange although you can buy any color you want.

Grading
There will be two midterms, one final exam, homework assignments and quizzes. The midterms are 25% each, the final is 35%, the homework assignments 10% and the quizzes are 5% of your total grade. Late homework is not accepted. There are no make ups for quizzes or midterms. You can follow your quiz and exam grades from https://catalyst.uw.edu.

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.

Homework and Webassign
We will be using WebAssign for homework. You login with your UW Net ID and your UW Net ID password. You must be enrolled in the course in order to get access to the homework on WebAssign. You will need to purchase an access code before the grace period ends. You can purchase an access code after logging into webassign.

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.

Week

Week of

Announcements and Topics

1

09/28
Classes start 09/30

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.

·         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.

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.

·         Solutions to Quiz 1

3

10/12

Chapters 5, 6 and 7

·         Solutions to Quiz 2

·         Midterm 1 Review

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

5

10/26

math equation pumpkin

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!

·         Solutions to Quiz 3

6

11/02

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Chapters 11 and 12

·         Quiz #4 is on Chapter 9.

·         Solutions to Quiz #4

7

11/09
No class on 11/11

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Chapters 13 and 14

·         Solutions to Quiz #5

·         Midterm 2 Review.

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

9

11/23
No class on 11/26 and 11/27

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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.

 

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.

·         Solutions to Quiz #6

·         My office hours on Friday 12/04 are 12:00-1:00.

11

12/07

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Why is x the unknown?

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

Section A

SMI 120

Section BA

SMI 102

Section BB

SMI 205

Section BC

SMI 211

Section BD

SMI 304

 

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.