MATH-0950-ES35

Welcome to the home page for section ES35 of MATH-0950 (Beginning Algebra) at Southeast Community College in the Spring 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).

Assignments

If you miss a homework assignment, then you can download it here. Eventually the solutions to most assignments (both homework and in-class) will show up here too.

Attendance (taken every day): 5%;
Homework (assigned nearly every day): 25%;
Quizzes (given nearly once a week): 20%;
Exams (April 29 and June 8): 50%.

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 April 1 Thursday);
The real numbers (from April 6 Tuesday);
Exponentiation (from April 8 Thursday):
- slides,
- print-out;
Identies for calculation (handout from April 8 Thursday): DjVu format, PDF format;
Order of operations (from April 13 Tuesday):
- slides,
- print-out;
Identities for simplifying algebraic expressions (handout from April 20 Tuesday): DjVu format, PDF format;
That's it!

This web page and the files linked from it were written between 2003 and 2010 by Toby Bartels. 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.

The permanent URI of this web page is http://tobybartels.name/MATH-0950/2010SP/.