MAT 120
Glascoe Fall 2011

  

Course Calendar with links to specific:
tutorials, chapter reviews, and extra credit assignments

Check MyMathLab regularly to see when assignments and quizzes are due!
Also check THIS CALENDAR to see what the nightly EVEN problems to be
handed in the next day (BEFORE I finish taking roll) are.

*all assignments are due the following class day (after the section is completely taught) before midnight - no exceptions!
* all quizzes are due the day they are listed on the calendar, before midnight - no exceptions!

*this schedule is tentative - all changes will be announced

DO NOT WAIT UNTIL THE LAST MINUTE TO DO QUIZZES AND HOMEWORK! Computer and internet issues will occur,
give yourself plenty of time! You will NOT be given more time. If you have issues with your computer or the internet,
then plan on using the LIBRARY COMPUTERS.

Links to the individual week in the calendar

week 1 week 2 week 3 week 4 week 5 week 6
week 7 week 8 week 9 week 10 week 11 week 12
week 13 week 14 week 15 week 16 Final's Week  

All students will take turn taking notes for the class using a LIvescribe smartpen.
This will record both audio and connect it to the animated hand-written words.
These notes will be located on the MAT120 Class Notes website

**Practice website: That Quiz

WEEK

Monday
Classroom

Tuesday
Classroom

Wednesday
Classroom

Thursday
Classroom

Friday
Classroom

week 1

Aug 22

Course Intro
MyMathLab
MAT120 Web

9.1
order of operations SIMPLIFY
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Tutorials: EX 1
EX 2, EX 3,
EX 4

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QZ:
9.1 # 100, 132
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GIZMO

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Signed syll.
signed Perm.
Day 1 info

8am MML
12noon MML
1pm MML

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student notes
8am(none) 12noon 1pm

board notes (none)

 

23


9.2
Exponents

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Tutorials: EX 1, EX 2, EX 3

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QZ:
9.2 # 72

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student notes
8am, 12noon, 1pm


board notes
(I only pick 1 class each day)

, 132

24

9.3
linear eq
linear Ineq

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Tutorials: EX 1, EX 2, EX 3, EX 4

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QZ
9.3 # 20

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GIZMO

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student notes
8am, 12noon, 1pm

board notes

25

9.4
Abs Val Eq
Q - MML

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Tutorials: EX 1, EX 2, EX 3,
EX 4

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QZ:
9.4 # 16

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student notes
8am, 12noon, 1pm

board notes
(none)

26

9.4
Abs Val Ineq
9.5
functions I

*last day to add

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Tutorials: EX 1, EX 2, EX 3,
EX 4

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QZ:
9.4 # 44
9.5 # 18 b, e

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GIZMO

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student notes
8am, 12noon, 1pm

board notes
(none)

week 2

29

9.5
functions II

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Tutorials: EX1, EX2, EX3, EX4, EX5 , EX6

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QZ:
9.5 # 26, 38

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student notes
8am, 12noon, 1pm

board notes

30

9.6
Graphing
linear eq

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Tutorials: EX 1, EX 2, EX3, EX4

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QZ:
9.6# 20

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student notes
8am, 12noon, 1pm

board notes

31

9.6
graph lin ineq
9.7
systems of lin eq

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Tutorials: systems: EX 1, EX 2, EX3, EX4, EX5, EX6

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QZ:
9.6 # 54
9.7 # 28

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GIZMO

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student notes
8am, 12noon, 1pm


board notes

SEPT 1

9.7
systems of lin ineq
Q - MML

mindmap due by midnight

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Tutorials:inequal: EX1, EX2, EX3

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QZ:
9.7# 38

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GIZMO

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student notes
8am, 12noon, 1pm

board notes

2

Ch 9 Review (with links to pencast examples)

NO QUIZ

STUDY FOR MONDAY'S TEST

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board notes

week 3

5

Labor day
NO CLASSES

6


TEST #1
Ch 9

TEST 1 KEY

*extra credit points will be added to the system after each test

7

10.1
Graphing polynomials, Addition/Sub

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Tutorials: EX1, EX2

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QZ:
10.1 # 28, 42

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GIZMO

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board notes

student notes
8am, 12noon, 1pm


 

8

10.2
Multiplying Polynomials

Tutorials: EX1, EX2, EX3, EX4, EX5

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QZ:
10.2 # 26

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board notes

student notes
8am, 12noon, 1pm

9

10.3
GCF and Factor by
Grouping

Tutorials: intro:EX1, EX2, EX3, EX4, EX5, EX6, EX7,

4 terms: EX8, EX9, EX10

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QZ:
10.3 #18, 40

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board notes

student notes
12noon, 1pm


week 4

12

10.3
Factor by Grouping
10.4 Factoring Trinomials

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Tutorials:
4 terms: EX8, EX9, EX10

EX1, EX2, EX3, EX4

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QZ:
10.3 # 50
10.4 # 20

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student notes
8am, 12noon, 1pm

board notes


13

10.4
Factoring Trinomials

 

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Tutorials: EX1, EX2, EX3, EX4

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QZ:
10.4 # 54

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GIZMO

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student notes
8am, 12noon, 1pm

board notes

14

10.5
Factoring Special Forms

Q - MML

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Tutorials:, EX1, EX2, EX3

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QZ:
10.5 # 12, 72

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GIZMO

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student notes
8am, 12noon, 1pm

board notes

15

10.5
Factoring Special Forms
10.6
General Factoring Strategies

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Tutorials: EX1, EX2, EX3, EX4, EX5, EX6, EX7

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QZ:
10.5 # 82
10.6 # 12

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student notes
8am, 12noon, 1pm

board notes

16

10.6
General Factoring Strategies

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Tutorials: EX1, EX2, EX3

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QZ:
10.6 #38, 42

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GIZMO

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student notes
8am, 12noon, 1pm

board notes

week 5

19

10.7
Polynomial Equations and Applications

mindmap due
by midnight
(extra credit)

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Tutorials: EX1, EX2, EX3, EX4, EX5, EX6, EX7

more advanced:
EX 1, EX2

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QZ:
10.7 # 28

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GIZMO

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student notes
8am, 1pm

class notes

20

Ch 10 Review

(with links to pencast examples)

Q - MML

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NO QUIZ

STUDY FOR WEDNESDAY'S TEST

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board notes

student notes
8am, 12noon, 1pm

21

TEST #2
Ch 10

Test 2 key

22

11.1
Rationals: Multiply and Divide, graphs

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Tutorials:EX1, EX2, EX3, EX4, EX5, EX6, EX7 Graphing: EX1

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QZ:
11.1 #56

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GIZMO

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student notes
8am, 12noon, 1pm

board notes



 

23


11.2(i)
Adding and Subtraction Rationals

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Tutorials: EX1, EX2, EX3, EX4, EX5

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QZ:
11.2 #24

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student notes
8am, 12noon, 1pm

board notes
week 6

26

11.2 (ii)
Adding Rationals
with unlike Denominators

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Tutorials: EX1, EX2, EX3, EX4

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QZ:
11.2 #42

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student notes
8am, 12noon, 1pm

class notes

27

11.3 (i)
Complex Rational Expressions

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Tutorials: EX1,

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QZ:
11.3 #16
(not collected)

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student notes
12noon, 1pm

board notes

28

11.3 (ii)
Complex Rational Expressions

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Tutorials:

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QZ:
11.3 #26

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student notes
8am, 12noon, 1pm

board notes

29

11.4
Long Division of Polynomials


Q - MML

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Tutorials: EX1, EX2, EX3, EX4, EX5

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QZ:
11.4 #28

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student notes
8am, 12noon, 1pm

board notes

30

11.5(i)
Synthetic Divison of Polynomials

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Tutorials: EX1, EX2, EX3, EX4, EX5

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QZ:
11.5 #10

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student notes
8am, 12noon, 1pm

board notes
week 7

OCT 3

11.5(ii)
Applications of Synthetic Division

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Tutorials: EX1, EX2

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QZ:
11.5 #32

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student notes
8am, 12noon, 1pm

board notes

4

11.6
Solving Rational Equations

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Tutorials:

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QZ:
11.6 #30

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student notes
8am, 12noon, 1pm

board notes

5

 

*no class

Q - MML

6

11.7(i)
Formulas and Applications

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Tutorials:

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QZ:
11.7 #12

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student notes
8am, 12noon, 1pm

board notes

 

7*

11.7(ii)
Applications

mindmap due midnight

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Tutorials: EX1, EX2, EX3, EX4,

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QZ:
11.7 #40

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student notes
8am, 12noon, 1pm

board notes

 
week 8

10

Ch 11 REVIEW

(with links to pencast examples)

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GIZMO
on 11.8, which is NOT on the test

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NO QUIZ

STUDY FOR MONDAY'S TEST

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board notes

11

TEST #3
Ch 11

Static PDF

VIdeo (MP4)

12

12.1
Radical Expressions

Tutorials:

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QZ: #28
(due Oct 13)

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board notes

student notes
8am, 12noon (no sound), 1pm


13

12.2 D1
Rational Exponents(i)

Tutorials: EX 1
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QZ: #46
(due Oct 14)

 

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board notes

student notes
8am, 12noon, 1pm


14

12.2 D2
Rational Exponents(ii)

Tutorials: EX1, EX2
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QZ:
12.2 #96
(due Oct 17)

 

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board notes

student notes
8am, 12noon, 1pm
week 9

17


12.3 D1
Simplifying Radicals
12.3 D2
Multiplying Radicals

Tutorials:EX1, EX2, EX3,

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QZ: #70
(due Oct 18)

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board notes

student notes
8am, 12noon, 1pm

18

12.4 D1
Adding and subtracting
Radicals

Q - MML

Tutorials: EX1, EX2

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QZ: #14
(due Oct 19)

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board notes

student notes
8am, 12noon, 1pm

19

12.4 D2
Dividing Radicals
12.5 D1
Multiplying Radicals II

Tutorials:

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QZ:
12.5 # 32
(due Oct 20)

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board notes

student notes
8am, 12noon, 1pm

20

12.5 D2
Rationalizing the Denominator

Tutorials:

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QZ: #78
(due Oct 21)

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board notes

student notes
8am, 12noon

21

12.6 D1
Solving Radical Equations

Tutorials: EX1, EX2, EX3, EX4, EX5, EX6

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QZ: #10
(due Oct 24)

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board notes

student notes (8am)
week 10

24

12.6 D2
Solving II
12.7
Complex
Numbers

 

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QZ:
12.6 #24
(due Oct 25)

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board notes

student notes
8am, 12noon, 1pm

25

12.7
Complex
Numbers

Q - MML

mindmap due midnight

Tutorials: EX1, EX2, EX3, EX4, EX5, EX6

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QZ: #68
(due Oct 26)

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board notes

student notes
8am, 12noon, 1pm

26

Review
Ch 12

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No Quiz

STUDY FOR THURSDAY'S TEST

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board notes

student notes
8am, 12noon, 1pm

27

Test #4
Ch 12

28

Class
Cancelled

week 11

31

13.1
Square root Property

Tutorials: EX1, EX2, EX3, EX4, EX5, EX6

Flash Animated tutorials

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QZ:
13.1 #16
(due Nov 1)

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student notes
8am, 12noon, 1pm

NOV 1

13.1
Completing the Square

Tutorials: EX1, EX2, EX3, ,EX4, EX5, EX6, EX7

Flash Animated Tutorials

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QZ:
13.1 # 52
(due Nov 2)

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board notes

 

2

13.2
The Quadratic Formula

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QZ:
13.2 #10
(due Nov 3)

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board notes

student notes
8am, 12noon, 1pm

 

3

13.2
Applications of the Quad. Form.

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QZ:
13.2 #60
(due Nov 4)

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board notes

student notes
8am

 

4

Q 13.3
Graphing Parabolas

Tutorials: Video, EX1, EX2, EX3, EX4, EX5, Vertex Form video
deriving Vertex Formula Video

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QZ:
13.3. #28
(due Nov 7)

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board notes

student notes
8am, 12noon, 1pm

 
week 12

7

13.3
Min/Max applications

Tutorials: EX1

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QZ:
13.3 #56
(due Nov 8)

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board notes

student notes
8am, 12noon

 

8

13.4
Equations in Quadratic Form

Q - MML

Tutorials: EX1, EX2, EX3, EX4, EX5

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QZ:
13.4. #10
(due Nov 9)

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board notes

student notes
8am, 12noon

 

9

13.5
Polynomial
Inequalities

Tutorials:EX1, EX2, EX3, EX4, EX5

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QZ:
13.5 #14
(due Nov 10)

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board notes

student notes

10

13.5
Rational
Inequalities nt

mindmap due midnight

Tutorials: EX1, EX2 EX3, EX4

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QZ:
13.5 #42
(due Nov 14)

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board notes

student notes
8am, 12noon, 1pm

11

Veteran's Day
NO CLASSES
week 13

14

Review

Q - MML

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No Quiz

STUDY FOR TUESDAY'S TEST

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board notes
12noon, 1pm

student notes
8am, 12noon, 1pm

15

Test #5
Ch 13

16

14.1
Exponential Functions

Tutorials: EX1, EX2

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QZ:
14.1 #40
(due Nov 17)

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board notes

student notes
8am

17

14.2
Composite Functions

Tutorials: EX1, EX2,
EX3,

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QZ:
14.2 #12
(due Nov18)

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student notes
8am

18

14.2
Inverse
Functions

Tutorials: EX1, EX2, EX3, EX4

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QZ:
14.2 #42
(due Nov 21)

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student notes
8am
week 14

21

14.3
Logarithmic Functions

Tutorials: EX1, EX2, EX3, EX4, EX5, EX6, EX7, EX8

graphing
EX1, EX2

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QZ:
14.3 #34
(due Nov 22)

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board notes



22

14.3
Logarithmic
Functions

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QZ:
14.3 #44
(due Nov 23)

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board notes

 

23

14.4
Properties of Logarithms

Q - MML

Tutorials: EX1, EX2, EX3

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QZ:
14.4 #26
(due Nov 28)

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board notes

student notes
12noon

 

24

Thanksgiving

25

No Classes
week 15

28*

14.4
Properties of Logarithms

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QZ:
14.4 #60
(due Nov 29)

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board notes

29

14.5
Solving Exponentials

Tutorials:
EX1, EX2,I

applications

EX1

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QZ:
14.5 #36
(due Nov 30)

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board notes

30

Class cancelled

DEC 1

14.5
Solving Logarithms

Tutorials: EX1, EX2, EX3, EX4,

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QZ:
14.5 #64
(due Dec1)

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2

14.6
Exponential Growth/Decay

mindmap due midnight

Tutorials: EX1, EX2, EX3, EX4

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QZ:
14.6 #16
(due Dec 2)

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week 16

5

Review

Q - MML

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NO HW QUIZ

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6

Test #6
Ch 14

7

REVIEW ASSIGNMENT

8

Pages 3-7 MUST be completed to attend class review

9

Pages 7-11 MUST be completed to attend class review


EXTRA CREDIT
DUE!

 
week 17
Finals Week

12

1pm class
FINAL EXAM
1pm- 2:50pm

13

 

14

8am class
FINAL EXAM
8am- 9:50am

__________

12noon class
FINAL EXAM
12noon- 1:50pm

 

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16

 

Q-MML = online quiz through MyMathLab. These open up at 12:01 on the day on the calendar and close THAT same evening at 11:59pm. You have 2 chances to take the quiz during those 24 hours (ok, 23 hours 58 min).

QZ = every night there will be 1-2 EVEN problems from the textbook due the NEXT day in class during the first 5 minutes. These quizzes will not be accepted if you are more than 5 minutes late or miss class. You must show ALL work for full credit on these quizzes.
To learn how to access the EVEN textbook homework pages ONLINE go to this page

mindmap due midnight= extra credit mindmaps of the chapter up to 5% towards that test

** Oct 8: Last day for withdrawal without an instructor's signature (Guaranteed W, afer this date you will receive a Y if you are failing and wish to withdraw)

**Nov 29: Last day for acceptance of student initiated withdrawal.



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