MATH-1150-ES32&34

Welcome to the home page for Sections ES32 and ES34 of MATH-1150 (College Algebra) at Southeast Community College in the Spring term of 2014. 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):
- Section ES32 (Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays),
- Section ES34 (Tuesdays and Thursdays).

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 (June 9 or 10).

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 9th Edition of Algebra & Trigonometry 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-1200 too, so you might want to check both shelves in the bookstore.) If you pay for it, you can also use MyMathLabPlus; see the instructions below.

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:
- Section ES32 (Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays): DjVu format, PDF format;
- Section ES34 (Tuesdays and Thursdays): DjVu format, PDF format.
MyMathLabPlus instructions:
- Official instructions (DjVu format, PDF format, HTML5 slideshow, PowerPoint format);
- Temporary access code (good until about April 23): MLPTMP-CHILI-CERIC-BAJAN-BEGOT-CAKES;
- Upgrade assistance (if you bought MyMathLab access for this book before): eric.olson@pearson.com.
Introduction (from April 2 or 3).
Symmetry and intercepts (from April 7 or 8, covering §2.2).
Lines (from April 9 or 10, covering §2.3).
Functions (from April 16&18 or 17&22, covering §§3.1&3.2).
Properties of functions (from April 18&21 or 22&24, covering §3.3).
Composition and inverse functions (from April 30 and May 2 or May 1&6, covering §§6.1&6.2).
Linear coordinate transformations (from May 5 or 8, covering §3.5).
Quadratic functions (from May 7&9 or 8&13, covering §4.3).
Exponential and logarithmic functions (from May 14&16 or 15&20, covering §§6.3&6.4).
Laws of logarithms (from May 19&21 or 20&22, covering §§6.5&6.6).
Applications of logarithms (from May 21–28 or 22–29, covering §§6.7&6.8).
Rational functions (from June 11 or 12, covering §§5.2&5.3).

That's it!

This web page was written between 2003 and 2014 by Toby Bartels, last edited on 2014 June 6. Toby reserves no legal rights to it.

The permanent URI of this web page is https://tobybartels.name/MATH-1150/2014SP/.