MATH-1150-LN07

Welcome to the permanent home page for Section LN07 of MATH-1150 (College Algebra) at Southeast Community College in the Spring term of 2021. I am Toby Bartels, the instructor.

Course administration

Contact information

Readings

The official textbook for the course is the 11th Edition of Algebra & Trigonometry by Sullivan published by Prentice-Hall (Pearson). You will automatically get an online version of this textbook through Canvas, although you can also order a print version if you like. This comes with access to Pearson MyLabs, directly integrated into Canvas), on which many of the assignments appear.

Graphs and functions

  1. General review:
  2. Graphing points:
  3. Graphing equations:
  4. Lines:
  5. Systems of equations:
  6. Functions:
  7. Graphs of functions:
Quiz 1, covering the material in Problem Sets 1–7, is available on February 10 Wednesday.

Properties and types of functions

  1. Properties of functions:
  2. Word problems with functions:
  3. Examples of functions:
  4. Composite functions:
  5. Inverse functions:
  6. Coordinate transformations:
  7. Quadratic functions:
  8. Applications of quadratic functions:
Quiz 2, covering the material in Problem Sets 8–15, is available on March 10 Wednesday.

Logarithms and polynomials

  1. Exponential functions:
  2. Logarithmic functions:
  3. Properties of logarithms:
  4. Applications of logarithms:
  5. Polynomial functions:
  6. Advanced factoring:
  7. Rational functions:
  8. Inequalities:
Quiz 3, covering the material in Problem Sets 16–23, is available on April 21 Wednesday.

Quizzes

  1. Graphs and functions:
  2. Properties and types of functions:
  3. Logarithms and polynomials:

Final exam

There will be a comprehensive final exam on May 3 Monday, in our normal classroom at the normal time but lasting until 7:10 PM. (You can also arrange to take it at a different time from April 30 to May 6.) To speed up grading at the end of the term, the exam will be multiple choice, with no partial credit.

For the exam, you may use one sheet of notes that you wrote yourself; please take a scan or a picture of this (both sides) and submit it on Canvas. However, you may not use your book or anything else not written by you. You certainly should not talk to other people! Calculators are allowed, although you shouldn't really need one, but not communication devices (like cell phones).

The exam consists of questions similar in style and content to those in the practice final exam on MyLab.


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