MATH-0950-ES32 and MATH-0950-ES33

Welcome to the home page for sections ES32 and ES33 of MATH-0950 (Beginning Algebra) at Southeast Community College in the Winter term of 2008. I am Toby Bartels, the instructor.

Administration

Here are some useful links for the administration of the course:

Contact information (to get in touch with me)
Tutoring information (for outside help)
Grading (how the class is graded)
Syllabus (the material that I'll cover);
Downloading help (if you have trouble reading some of the files here).

Assignments

If you miss a homework assignment, then you can download it here. Eventually the solutions to most assignments will show up here too.

Attendance (taken every day)
Homework (assigned nearly every day)
Quizzes (nearly every week, usually Friday)
Midterm exam (February 8 Friday)
Final exam (March 17 Monday)

Notes

Here will be some of my notes for lectures, handouts, and so forth. If you missed class, then you might be able to find a substitute here. But there is no guarantee that everything will show up!

Introduction (from January 7 Monday);
The real numbers (from January 9&11);
Positivity (from January 11);
Exponentiation (from January 11&14);
Identities for calculation (handout from January 16 Wednesday):
- For ES32 (earlier section): PostScript form, PDF form;
- For ES33 (afternoon section): PostScript form, PDF form.
Expressions in standard form (from January 23 Wednesday)
Identies for simplifying expressions (handout from January 30 Wednesday):
- For ES32 (afternoon section): PostScript form, PDF form;
- For ES33 (earlier section): PostScript form, PDF form.
Equations (from February 6&11);
Linear equations (from February 11&13);
Inequalities (from February 15&18);
Absolute-value problems (from February 25);

This web page and the handouts linked from it were written between 2003 and 2008 by Toby Bartels. Toby reserves no legal rights to them.

Although the page has been preserved in its original form, the handouts linked from it have been converted to DjVu using Any2DjVu; they can be viewed on almost any operating system using DjVuLibre.

The permanent URI of this web page is http://tobybartels.name/MATH-0950/2008WN/.