| Day | Date | Homework | |
|---|---|---|---|
| E. White; 127 AH 782-5213; ewhite@jsu.edu;
http://mcis.jsu.edu/faculty/ewhite/index.html
DG - Daily Grade Assignment MT - Major Test..... Will take the entire class period. WS - Worksheet | |||
| Wed. | Aug 29 | 4.6A - #1-44; WS#1-3
These worksheets are useful reviews on things such as rational and radical simplification. Don't panic if you don't get them all done before next Wed. Do a sampling of problems and let me know where you need help. Wed. 10:30PM: The Course Policy and Worksheets should be available now. The Syllabus, etc. is not yet completed; but I will try to get it uploaded Thursday and give you an update notice here. Thursday evening update: Since you already know the current assignment, you will not really need the Syllabus til next week. Since the Syllabus is changing from the last time I taught this course, I do not want to rush and set it up wrong. So that was a long way of saying it is not ready yet. Probably will have it up before class next week, so you can either check periodically or just wait til after our next class to print it off. I will make the next assignment clear in class. REMINDERS TO HELP WITH THE HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT: Remember when you are trying to find that Least Common Denominator for a problem that you will need to first factor the denominators involved. For example if one denominator is (x+3)(x-2) and the other denominator is (x-5)(x-2), then their LCD is (x+3)(x-2)(x-5). Hope that will help since our time was rushed. | |
| Mon. | Sep 3 | HOLIDAY
Webpage Update: I think I have the main things you need for now uploaded. If there is anything missing that you need, please email me or tell me in class Wed. | |
| Wed. | Sep 5 | Finish 4.6A; 4.6B; 5.5; 6.2B; WS#5 (Remember to print out the Syllabus
to determine which problems to work for these book assignments.)
WS#5 is a review of integer exponent problems. From my experience many students have trouble with exponent problems, particularly when negative exponents are involved. So it would be very good to make sure you are up to speed on these background skills before we talk about fractional exponents on Mon. TUTORING CENTER OPENS THURSDAY MORNING AT 8:30. I have a tentative schedule of everyones' assigned time slots, so I will not post it til it is set. However, we are fairly certain that the basic schedule will be hours from 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM Monday thru Thursday and 8:30 to 12:00 on Friday. As stated in class, you may go in for help without an appointment. Tutoring is in 101.A Ayers Hall. THURSDAY UPDATE: SORRY! I forgot to post even answers to 4.6B yesterday. They are below. EVEN ANSWERS to 4.6B: #46. 17.5 ft by 28.75 ft; #48. 60 degrees; #50. 9, 71; #52. 9450 females, 6750 males; #54. $147,000; #56. 19; #58. $225,000; #60. W = 21 cm; L = 36 cm. | |
| Mon. | Sep 10 | 5.6A - D; WS#8; 6.2A
WS#8 will give most of you what you need... MORE practice with evaluating with fractional exponents. I will post the Test Dates by Wed. | |
| Wed. | Sep 12 | 6.1A - C; 6.2C & D | |
| Mon. | Sep 17 | 6.3A & B; 8.1A-D
See date & location of Major Test #1 below. | |
| Wed. | Sep 19 | Finish 8.1; 8.2A & B; WS#7 (Particularly, #1-30 & 35-42.)
WS#7 is actually the answers to Section 7.5, given in slope-intercept form. This will give you some needed extra practice on writing equations of lines with various information given. It is what I feel is a necessary supplement to 8.2B, since there are so few problems in this section. NOTE on 8.1C: You are not responsible for Range on the Test, unless I give it as a Bonus Question. You are responsible for Domain. | |
| Mon. | Sep 24 | 6.4 was covered but will not be on this 1st test. It is assigned to do after the
test, so be ready with questions
on 6.4 next Mon. Notice that the Syllabus says you only have to solve
the equations in this section. I do NOT require you to analyze the solutions
by means of the discriminant. You do NOT have to check your solutions by the
sum and product relationships either.
TEST on WED, (See Below) Highlighted Syllabus has been uploaded. | |
| Wed. | Sep 26 | MAJOR TEST #1
TO BE GIVEN IN 355 AYERS HALL REMEMBER to do 6.4 on the quadratic formula for Mon. | |
| Mon. | Oct 1 | 6.5A thru C; 2.6; WS#10
You will definitely need to do WS#10. There are no excercises like this in the book. It should help get you ready for our discussion of 6.6 next Mon. It could also help you with understanding 2.6. EVEN ANSWERS to 6.5C (Sorry that I can't make these look like proper form; but you should be able to check yourself): #34. plus or minus square root of 3; plus or minus 3 times square root of 2; #36. plus or minus 2; plus or minus 2 times square root of 15 over 5; #38. plus or minus 3/2; plus or minus i times square root of 5; #40. plus or minus square root of 6 over 3; plus or minus 3 times square root 2 over 2. #76. {1,9} #78. {-27,8} #80. (-1/6, 1/2} | |
| Wed. | Oct 3 | 2.7; 6.5E (notice you should do ALL of these... Even answers are below.); WS#9
Since there are not many of these problems in the book, you will definitely want to get WS#9 to get some extra practice and to see some different situations. Both 6.5E & WS#9 are word problems involving D=RT. You may use the "box" method I show in class to help organize the information or another logical way; however, you MUST be able to set up an appropriate equation for the problem. This means an equation that algebraically fits the information in the problem, and that can be solved by accepted algebraic methods. If you have 2 unknowns, then there would have to be 2 equations; however, you will either need to finish the solution, or get the 2 equations "combined" to yield one equation with one unknown to get full credit for an appropriate equation. EVEN ANSWERS to 6.5E: #56. Larry drove 52 mph, Terrell drove 54 mph #58. 20 mph | |
| Mon. | Oct 8 | 6.6; 8.6
Tests were returned today. If you were absent, you may come by my office to pick up your test. | |
| Wed. | Oct 10 | 8.3 & 8.4 using the instructions on WS#11 & WS#12.
Graphs for odd problems can be
checked in the book.
Since our time was limited today, I did not get every aspect of parabola problems covered; however, you should be ready to graph a parabola by looking at its equation in Vertex Form as it is given on the worksheets. We will continue the discussion on Mon, and cover the other concepts of how to get the equation into that form; how to find the x-intercepts and what zeros of the function are. NOTES AVAILABLE: If you missed class or are having trouble with this material you may find Notes #18 on my web page to be helpful. | |
| Mon. | Oct 15 | Finish Parabolas (WS#11 & 12; 8.3 & 8.4); 4.5A & B; 9.1
SEE TEST DATE BELOW! Highlighted Syllabus is already uploaded, or you may ask see it in class Wed. If you missed class, you should pay attention to the types of questions that you should be able to answer about parabolas. See the end of WS#11. NOTE: For the graphing problems on this test, I will give you the equation of the parabola in BOTH Vertex Form and in polynomial form. This is the SAME parabola... I am just giving you the equation in both forms to make it easier for you to graph! | |
| Wed. | Oct 17 | Today was review day for the test.
NEW ASSIGNMENT: 9.2A & B will NOT be on the test; however, you should be ready to ask questions on this section on Wed. 10/24. | |
| Mon. | Oct 22 | MAJOR TEST #2 (Highlighted Syllabus is available on my web page.)
TO BE GIVEN IN 355 AYERS HALL | |
| Wed. | Oct 24 | 9.3 USING WS#13 & WS#14; Start 9.4
If you were absent today, you will probably need to get an explanation of these worksheets and how you will be expected to do these problems on the test. Get notes from a friend or come and ask me outside of class. PRINT OUT WS#15 & #16. These are calculator problems, and we will be using our calculators next week, so you will need to start bringing yours to class... probably most days til the end of the semester. | |
| Thurs. | Oct 25 | Midterm Grades turned in. This is a Thursday...
NO CLASS.
MIDTERM GRADE ANNOUNCEMENT: Banner shut down taking grades before I could get your midterm grades entered. I do have your midterm grade available, so you may ask me. However, if you picked up your first test, you know what your midterm grade is... that was the only basis I had for a midterm grade at this time. If you did not take the first test, then your midterm grade is F. Of course, you may have a makeup grade if you had an excused absence. | |
| Mon. | Oct 29 | Finish 9.4; 9.5 | |
| Wed. | Oct 31 | SEE BELOW (THURSDAY, 11/1) | |
| Thurs. | Nov 1 | Last day to drop without signature. This is a Thursday...
NO CLASS.
If I have not returned Test #2 by this day, I will still sign you as drop passing after you have gotten your test results if you so desire. As stated in class, please be aware of consequences of dropping below a full load if you are on financial aid, a scholarship or your parents' insurance. TODAY'S UPDATE: I AM BACK AT SCHOOL: SORRY that I had to cancel class at the last minute! I was hoping to either be feeling well enough to come or to be able to get a substitute; but neither worked out. SKILLS TESTS: Those that stopped by to take skills tests and left a note under my door should have received an email about that on Thursday. For all others taking skills tests, I should be back on my regular office hour and tutoring schedule for next week. Because of my absence this week, I might be willing to stay later than usual on Tuesday or Thursday. Please submit such requests in writing or by email and make sure that I have agreed. BRING CALCULATORS on Mon. We will be covering 10.1 and 10.2. Something you can be working on: WS#15 & #16. These are calculator worksheets. As you do these problems, carefully keep order of operations in mind, in particular, be aware of "understood parentheses" such as are created by fraction bars and radicals. Your calculator can not "see" what you see, so you will have to insert the understood parentheses to calculate the problem correctly in those situations. For PART II of Test #3, there will be some "straight calculator problems" similar to those on the worksheets, as well as calculator problems that come from log problems that we will do. | |
| Mon. | Nov 5 | 10.1; 10.2; WS#15 & #16 (Calculator Worksheets)
Test #2 was returned today. If you were absent, be sure to come by my office to pick yours up. You will need to evaluate your status in class and decide if you want to take my offer of dropping you passing now. The offer will be available for a couple of days. If you have passed at least one of the two tests, you may discuss with me whether I would be able to drop you passing later in the semester. 10:00 PM UPDATE: Forgot to post even answers for 10.1: #2. x=4 #4. x=2 #6. x=4 #8. x=1 #10. x=1 #12. x=-2 #14. x=(3/2) #16. x=(4/9) #18. x=-(10/9) #20. x=-4 #22. x=(4/3) #24. x=(2/3) #26. x=(3/5) | |
| Wed. | Nov 7 | 10.3; 10.4A - E; WS#17
Get NOTES #20 from my web page. It lays out all the log rules with examples. WS#17 is not an absolute must; however, it will give you a lot of very good practice with basic log evaluation, which should give you a better concept of working with logs in general. NOTE on 10.3: Please be aware that I only assigned certain problems from this section (see syllabus.) We are only getting a very basic understanding of inverse functions. NOTE on 10.4: We did not have time to cover every idea that was needed for doing every problem; however, I think that the ideas discussed should enable you to do problems 1 - 50. (HINT for 41 - 50: Use the definition of log to rewrite the log equation as an "exponential equation." In these problems, your exponent will be a number instead of the variable.) With the use of Notes #20, you might be able to figure out more of this section. We will, of course, spend more time on this on Monday. THURSDAY UPDATE ON SKILLS TESTS: I HAVE 3 NEW SKILLS AVAILABLE TO COVER SECTIONS 2.6, 2.7, AND 10.3. NEW TOPIC LIST HAS BEEN UPLOADED. | |
| Mon. | Nov 12 | Finish 10.4; Start 10.5
We did not actually get to discuss 10.5 in class; however, you should be able to start it. Do #1 - 10, and #21 -30. All that is involved in these problems is making sure that you know how to use the ln and log buttons on your calculator correctly. We will discuss the other problems in this section on Wed. along with 10.6 | |
| Wed. | Nov 14 | Finish 10.5; 10.6; 13.1
This is the end of the new material for this semester!! From now on we are reviewing or testing. Be ready with questions on Monday since your test will be immediately after Thanksgiving break. REMEMBER TEST DATES BELOW! SUNDAY AFTERNOON UPDATE: I am having a computer problem and can not get the highlighted syllabus done right now. I have listed the sections to be covered on each part of the test below on their respective test date. Problem fixed... Highlighted Syllabus should be available now. | |
| Mon. | Nov 19 | Review for Test.
IMPORTANT NOTE FOR 1:45 CLASS: Somehow my printer had messed up and the highlighting for 13.1A did not show up. It should have been clear from my statement of problem types that were given in class that 13.1A was included, but I do apologize for the error on the syllabus in class. The highlighted syllabus on my web page is correct. | |
| Wed. | Nov 21 |
HOLIDAY! | |
| Mon. | Nov 26 | Last day to drop passing - with signature.
MAJOR TEST #3 PART I (NO CALCULATORS) TO BE GIVEN IN 355 AYERS HALL COVERS SECTIONS AND WORKSHEETS: 9.2A & B; 9.3 (Using WS#13); 9.4; 9.5; 10.1; 10.3; 10.4A - E Also WS#17); 10.6B; 13.1A & B. ANNOUNCEMENT MADE IN CLASS: Since I have 2 MS 112 classes, you may elect to take the Final Exam with the other class, if it would help you out. Exam dates and times for each class are given below. I will be available to start the final 30 minutes early in each case. NOTE: In order to change your exam time, you MUST notify me IN WRITING by Mon. 12/3. (Put this on a FULL sheet of paper.) Make sure that you get my approval, particularly if you notify me by email. FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE: Will hopefully be posted on my web page by Wed. I will update you on progress in class on Wed. MAJOR TEST FOUL UP: I have hopefully sent an email to all who took the test today. I somehow left out sections 9.2 & 9.3 from the test. I will make problems on these sections available to be taken after you turn in Part II on Wed. if you think that it will improve your grade. However, since it is my fault that they were left out, your Part I can stand as is, if you wish. Please pass the word to others in the class in case they haven't received their email. TUESDAY UPDATE: Final Exam Study Guide has been posted. | |
| Wed. | Nov 28 | MAJOR TEST #3 PART II (CALCULATORS REQUIRED)
TO BE GIVEN IN 355 AYERS HALL COVERS SECTIONS AND WORKSHEETS: 10.2; 10.5; 10.6A, C & D; WS#15 & WS#16. SPECIAL NOTE on "THE REST OF PART I": As indicated above under MAJOR TEST FOUL UP, there will be problems available that cover sections 9.2 and 9.3. You can take this, "the Rest of Part I" after turning in Part II and putting up your calculator. If the additional problems help your grade, I will include them. If they don't help your grade, I will not count them. | |
| Mon. | Dec 3 | LAST CLASS DAY. FINAL REVIEW. | |
| Tues. | Dec 4 | ACADEMIC PREP DAY - NO CLASSES | |
| Fri. | Dec 7 | TO BE GIVEN IN 355 AYERS HALL You may start 30 minutes early or take extra time at the end. | |
| Mon. | Dec 10 | TO BE GIVEN IN 355 AYERS HALL You may start 30 minutes early or take extra time at the end. |