MATH-0950-LN04

Welcome to the home page for Section LN04 of MATH-0950 (Beginning Algebra) at Southeast Community College in the Summer term of 2016. I am Toby Bartels, the instructor.

Administration

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

My course policies: DjVu format, PDF format.
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 may show up here too.

Readings and homework (done almost every day);
Problem sets and exams (done almost every other week);
Final exam (September 20 Tuesday).

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

Resources

The official textbook for the course is the 3rd Edition of Elementary & Intermediate Algebra written by Sullivan et al and published by Prentice-Hall (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 integrated into the Moodle course; 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!

Tutoring schedule.
Introduction (assigned July 12 Tuesday).
The real numbers (assigned July 14 Thursday).
Exponentiation (assigned July 19 Tuesday).
Identities for arithmetic (handed out on July 21 Thursday).
Polynomials (assigned July 28 Thursday).
Identities for simplifying algebraic expressions (handed out on August 2 Tuesday).
Solving equations (assigned August 4 Thursday).
Absolute-value problems (assigned August 11 Thursday).
Word problems (assigned August 16 Tuesday).
Lines (assigned August 30 Tuesday).
Systems of equations (assigned September 1 Thursday).
Arithmetic with polynomials (assigned September 8 Thursday).

That's it!

This web page was written between 2003 and 2016 by Toby Bartels, last edited on 2016 September 11. Toby reserves no legal rights to it.

The permanent URI of this web page is https://tobybartels.name/MATH-0950/2016SU/.