MATH-1150-LN01&LN06

Welcome to the permanent home page for Sections LN01 and LN06 of MATH-1150 (College Algebra) at Southeast Community College in the Fall term of 2022. I am Toby Bartels, your instructor.

Course administration

For Section LN01

For Section LN06

Contact information

Feel free to send a message at any time, even nights and weekends (although I'll be slower to respond then).

Readings

The official textbook for the course is the 11th Edition of Algebra & Trigonometry by Sullivan published by Prentice-Hall (Pearson). You automatically get an online version of this textbook through Canvas, although you can use a print version instead if you like. This comes with access to Pearson MyLab, 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. Linear equations:
  6. Systems of equations:
  7. Functions:
  8. Operations on functions:
  9. Graphs of functions:
Quiz 1, covering the material in Problem Sets 1–9, is on September 26 Monday.

Properties and types of functions

  1. Properties of functions:
  2. Rates of change:
  3. Word problems with functions:
  4. Linear functions:
  5. The library of functions:
  6. Piecewise-defined functions:
  7. Composite functions:
  8. Inverse functions:
  9. Graphs of inverse functions:
  10. Coordinate transformations:
  11. Quadratic functions:
  12. Applications of quadratic functions:
  13. Applications to economics:
Quiz 2, covering the material in Problem Sets 10–22, is on October 31 Monday.

Logarithms and polynomials

  1. Exponential functions:
  2. Logarithmic functions:
  3. Properties of logarithms:
  4. Logarithmic equations:
  5. Compound interest:
  6. Applications of logarithms:
  7. Power functions:
  8. Graphing polynomials:
  9. Advanced factoring:
  10. Imaginary roots:
  11. Rational functions and asymptotes:
  12. Graphs of rational functions:
  13. Inequalities:
Quiz 3, covering the material in Problem Sets 23–35, is on December 5 Monday.

Quizzes

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

Final exam

There is a comprehensive final exam on December 14 Wednesday, in our normal classroom at the normal time but lasting until 10:40. (You can also arrange to take it at a different time December 12–16.) To speed up grading at the end of the term, the exam is multiple choice and filling in blanks, with no partial credit.

For the exam, you may use one sheet of notes that you wrote yourself. 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:


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