MATH-1100-ES32

Welcome to the home page for Section ES32 of MATH-1100 (Intermediate Algebra) at Southeast Community College in the Summer term of 2015. 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 may show up here too.

Attendance (taken every day);
Homework (due nearly every day);
Final exam (September 22 Tuesday).

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 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-0950 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!

Official college syllabus: DjVu format, PDF format.
Introduction (from July 14 Tuesday).
Roots (from June 21 Tuesday, covering §§9.1&2).
Simplifying roots (from June 23 Thursday, supplementing §9.4).
Solving quadratic equations (from August 4 Tuesday, covering §10.1).
The numerical analyst's quadratic formula (from August 6 Thursday, supplementing §10.2, on an external site with fancy formatting possibilities).
Classifying solutions of quadratic equations (from August 6 Thursday, supplementing §10.2).
Synthetic factoring (supplementing §6.3, hosted by another school in PDF format).
Summary of factoring techniques (from August 13 Thursday, covering §6.5).
Solving equations by factoring (from August 18 Tuesday, covering §6.6).
Rational expressions (from September 1 Tuesday).
Quadratic functions (not covered).

That's it!

This web page was written between 2003 and 2015 by Toby Bartels, last edited on 2015 September 16. Toby reserves no legal rights to it.

The permanent URI of this web page is https://tobybartels.name/MATH-1100/2015SU/.