MATH 1010-2: INTERMEDIATE ALGEBRAFall 2010Instructor: Professor Peter Trapa, LCB 118, 5-7671, [email protected] time: Tues days and Thursdays, 12:25-2:10PM, in JFB 103.Office hours: Wednesdays 1-2pm in JWB 333. I also closely monito r my email and (usually) replyto any questions very promptly.Course webpage: www.math.utah.edu/~ptrapa/1010/Text: Intermediate Algebra, by R. Larson, Fifth Edition (2010), Br ooks/Cole Publishing Company.Content: Our a im is to cover Chapters 1–9 in the textbook. Plea se see the attached outline.Homework and Quizzes: Corresponding to each section of the book that we cover, I will provideyou with a list of homework problems. It is expec ted that you attempt all problems and that youread the section of the text from which the problems are taken. Homework will not be collected, buteach Thursday will begin with a ten minute quiz consisting of several problems taken directly1fromthe homework corresponding to the previous two lectures. (At the end of each Tuesday lecture, I willexplicitly state the sections that the quiz will cover.) No make-up quizzes will be given. If you missa quiz your score will be entered as a zero. In the figuring o f your final grade, your lowest quiz scorewill be dropped; see be low.Hour Exams: There will be two hour-long exams during the term on the following days:Exam 1: September 23rdExam 2: November 11thPlease make a note of these dates and schedule accordingly. No make-up exams will be given. Thetentative content of each exam is explained in the attached outline.Final Exam: The final exam is a two-hour comprehensive departmental exam. It will be held onFriday, December 17th, from 3:30-5:30PMin a location which will be announced later in the term.Grading: Your grade will be determined by your performance on quizzes and exams (includingthe final). Your quiz scores (after dropping the lowest one) will be averaged to gether, and thiscumulative average will account for 32.67% of your final g rade. Similarly your hour exam scor e s willbe averaged and will contribute 32.67% to your final grade. Your scor e on the final exam will alsocontribute 32.67% to your final grade. The last 2% of your grade w ill be based on your attendanceand pa rticipation in class. This 2% may b e especially relevant in determining borderline grades.The grading scale is this course is rigidly defined as follows:A: ≥ 90% A–: ≥ 85%B+: ≥ 80% B: ≥ 75% B–: ≥ 70%C+: ≥ 65% C: ≥ 60% C–: ≥ 55%D+: ≥ 50% D: ≥ 45% D–: ≥ 40 %E: else.If at any point during the term you are unsure of where your performance places you in the gradingscale, please don’t hesitate to schedule a meeting with me so that I can clear up any confusion.1I do however reserve the right to change the numbers slightly. For instance, if the homework problem asked youto solve 3x + 4 = 10 for x, the quiz might instead ask you to solve 2x + 5 = 9 for x.2Calculators: This course is designed so that the use of calculators is not necessary. No calculatorswill be allowed on quizzed and exams.Classroom Etiquette: We have a large amount of material to c over and a relatively short time todo it. Thus every minute of time in class is important. We will begin each lecture at 12:25 sharpand it is expected that you be in your seat ready to take notes when class starts. Class will endat 2:10. Leaving early can significantly disrupt the clas s, so please don’t do it. Please don’t b eginpacking up to leave before clas s ends, pleas e don’t eng age in conversation during class, plea se turnyour cellphones and laptops off, and please remove earphones and headsets during class.Tutoring Center: The math department o ffer s free drop-in tutoring for 1010 students. The tutoringcenter is located in room 155 of the T. Benny Rushing Mathematics Center (adjacent to the LCBand JWB). You should take advantage of this outstanding facility. You can find more informationat http://www.math.utah.edu/ugrad/tutoring.html.Supplemental Instruction: The Supplemental Instruction Program, called SI for short, is offeredin this course to provide organized study sessions. These sessions are free and open to all students inthe course and are led by a n under graduate who has done well in this subject area. Your SI leaderwill be attending classes, r e ading the ma terial, and doing any relevant ass ignments to be preparedfor the SI sessions. The purpose of SI is to see that each of you has the opportunity to do as well asyou would like to in this course. In SI sessions, we will review, organize, and clarify the material fromlectures; teach you ways to develop e ffective study skills for this course; and help you prepare forexams. Your SI leader, Lisa Friedman ([email protected]), will schedule three meetingsper week convenient to the majority of your schedules. Attendance is voluntary, and you may attendas many or as few sessions as you like.Once the days, times and locations o f the sessions are anno unced, you can enter this informationon this chart:Session 1:Session 2:Session 3:At the end of the semester, please complete the post-survey accessed atwww.studentvoice.com/utah/si.htmlto provide us with feedback on your experience with SI. Your comments are valued and imp ortant.Keys to Success: 1010 is an important course because it is a prerequisite for nearly all other classesoffered by the math department. Here are some tips to succeed:(1) Attend class and take notes. Engaging yourself in the class room is an important part oflearning the material we cover.(2) Complete all homework problems in a timel y fashion. 1010 moves as a brisk pace.It is easy to fall behind if you do not keep up with the homework problems corresponding toeach lecture. Remember that mastering the homework problems virtually guarantees successon the weekly quizzes (which comprise nearly one-third of your grade).(3) Struggling? Ge t help sooner rather than later. There are many resources availableto you (such as office hours, Supplemental Instruction, and the tutoring center). You shouldtake advantage of them, espec ially if you find yourself struggling.ADA Statement: The American with Disabilities Act requires that reasona ble accommodations beprovided for students with physical, sensory, cognitive, systemic, learning, and psychiatric disabilities.Please contact me at the beginning of the semester to discuss any such accommodations for the co urse.3Math 1010-2: outline and homeworkMaterial for exam 1:Fundamentals