Math 127, Remarks,
Our Progress: So far we have covered Chapter 6 and we are now beginning
Chapter 7.
Problems in the Book: The book has a number of examples worked in detail.
It also has homework type problems at the end of each section and more at the
end of each chapter. We are not using those problems for homework but they do give
a good view of what you should be able to do. The answers to ALL of these
problems are in the back of the book. For the problems marked with SM there is
more detail on the solution in the Student Manual for the course; a link to
which is on the course’s web page. Also on the web page is a link to a web site
which accompanies our text. That site has a set of “test your knowledge”
questions for each chapter.
The First Exam: Our first exam is in the evening of Wednesday,
September 23, a week from this coming Wednesday. The room and seating
assignments will be available online that day; there is a link for that on our
web page.
You
may bring a calculator to the exam (non-graphing, non-programmable) and a 3” X
5” index cards with hand written notes (you may use both sides).
The
exam will consist of twenty multiple choice questions. It will cover the
material in Chapter 6 as well as sections 7.1, 7.2, and 7.3. The topic coverage
in the WebWork assignments and the quizzes lags behind the schedule of topics covered
in lecture so don’t let those two be your main guide as to what you should know
for the exam.
Exams
for this course from earlier semesters are available online (again, a link is
on our web page.) In some of those
semesters other instructors taught the course, in all of those semesters
another text was used. Hence there will
only be a limited match between the questions on our exam and the type of questions
that showed up on those exams.
The First Quiz: Most weeks
there will be a quiz at the beginning of the discussion section. Generally the
quiz will be on topics from the previous week’s lectures. The first quiz is
Thursday of this week. It will cover the material in Sections 6.7 through 6.11.