MATH-0950-ES31

Welcome to the home page for Section ES31 of MATH-0950 (Beginning Algebra) at Southeast Community College in the Summer term of 2017. I am Toby Bartels, the instructor.

Administration

Here is material about the administration of the course:

My course policies: DjVu format, PDF format.
Your current grade (on Moodle, where you must log in).
Downloading help (if you have trouble reading some of the files here).

Assignments

If you miss an assignment, then you can find it here.

Most graded work is done in class; although it can be made up outside of class, regular attendance is important.

Resources

The official textbook for the course is the 4th 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 (in hardback or looseleaf), and most assignments will come from it. (This same book is used for MATH-1100 too.) If you get the book with online access, you can also use MyMathLab integrated into the Moodle course; this is optional. (If you bought MyMathLab access for a previous course using this book, then you may need to see me about a free upgrade, but you shouldn't have to pay for it again.) One way or another, you need a copy of this edition of this textbook.

I also have some lecture notes, hand-outs, links, and so forth. Many of these will be part of the assigned reading, so let me know if you have any difficulty accessing them.

Tutoring schedule.
Moodle course with integrated MyMathLab (optional).
Introduction (assigned July 11 Tuesday).
The real numbers (assigned July 13 Thursday).
Exponentiation (assigned July 18 Tuesday).
Identities for arithmetic (handed out on July 20 Thursday).
Polynomials (assigned July 25 Tuesday).
Identities for simplifying algebraic expressions (handed out on July 25 Tuesday).
Solving equations (assigned August 1 Tuesday).
Word problems (assigned August 3 Thursday).
Lines (assigned August 15 Tuesday).
Arithmetic with polynomials (assigned August 22 Tuesday).
Factoring overview (assigned August 24 Thursday).
Summary of factoring techniques (assigned August 29 Tuesday).
Solving equations by factoring (assigned August 31 Thursday).
Rational expressions (assigned September 5 Tuesday).

That's it!

This web page and the files linked from it were written between 2003 and 2017 by Toby Bartels, last edited on 2017 August 24. Toby reserves no legal rights to them.

The permanent URI of this web page is https://tobybartels.name/MATH-0950/2017SU/.