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 2013. 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);
Your current grade (on Moodle, where you must log in).

Assignments

If you miss a homework assignment, then you can find it here. Eventually some solutions to graded homework will show up here too.

Attendance (taken every day);
Homework (assigned nearly every day);
Final exam (December 12 Thursday).

Although only homework and the final exam contribute directly to your grade, attendance is also important.

Resources

The official textbook for the course is the 3rd Edition of Elementary & Intermediate Algebra published by Pearson. You should be able to get this at the bookstore, and most homework problems will come from it. (This same book is used for MATH-1100 too, so you might want to check both shelves in the bookstore.) If you pay for it, you can also use MyMathLab with Course ID bartels04296; this is optional.

I also have some lecture notes, hand-outs, links, 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!

Official college syllabus: DjVu format, PDF format.
MyMathLab using Course ID bartels04296. Instructions: DjVu format, PDF format.
Introduction (from October 3 Thursday).
The real numbers (from October 8 Tuesday).
Exponentiation (from October 10 Thursday).
Order of operations (from October 15 Tuesday): DjVu format, PDF format.
Identities for arithmetic (from October 15&17): DjVu format, PDF format.
Polynomials (from October 22 and December 10).
Solving equations (from October 31 to November 7).
Lines (from December 3 Tuesday).
That's it!

This web page and the handouts on order of operations and identities for arithmetic linked from it were written between 2003 and 2014 by Toby Bartels, last edited on 2014 June 6. Toby reserves no legal rights to them.

The permanent URI of this web page is http://tobybartels.name/MATH-0950/2013FA/.