MATH-0950-ES36

Welcome to the home page for section ES36 of MATH-0950 (Beginning Algebra) at Southeast Community College in the Fall term of 2010. 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);
Schedule (the material that we'll cover);
Downloading help (if you have trouble reading some of the files here);
Official notices (from the SCC administration);
Conclusion (final comments for the final exam).

Assignments

If you miss a homework assignment, then you can find it here. Eventually the solutions to most quizzes and exams will show up here too.

Attendance (taken every day);
Homework (assigned nearly every day);
Quizzes (given nearly every day);
Exams (November 4 and December 14).

Although only quizzes and exams count towards your grade, attendance and homework are also important.

Notes

Here will be some of my notes for lectures, hand-outs, 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 October 5 Tuesday);
The real numbers (from October 7 Thursday);
Exponentiation (from October 12 Tuesday):
- slides,
- print-out;
Order of operations (from October 14 Thursday):
- slides,
- print-out;
Polynomials (from October 19&21);
Solving equations (from November 9 Tuesday).

This web page and the files linked from it were written between 2003 and 2010 by Toby Bartels, last edited on 2010 December 14. Toby reserves no legal rights to them.

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

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