Follow this link for advice from another professor about how to study for a mathematics exam. Not everything applies verbatim to our class, but he gives a lot of good advice.
The final exam for this course is scheduled for Monday, 12/17/2012 at 1:30pm-3:30pm; rooms to be announced.
The final exam for this course is scheduled for Monday, 12/17/2012 at 1:30pm-3:30pm in the following rooms:
Study materials
Last updated on 12/13/12.
Note: The links in the reading schedule are for any available lecture notes, and the occasional external website. The lecture notes are scanned PDFs. I compress them before posting them on the website, which reduces their file size to less than 5% of the original (!) but does tend to make them fuzzy. (Let me know if something is too hard to read.) They should suffice for double-checking something in your notes, but I wouldn't recommend trying to read them as your primary source of information for the course.
| Week Of | Reading | Homework | Due | Solutions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9/3 | Section 1 | Skills: 1.4, 1.10(c,e,g,i,j; briefly explain), 1.12 | 9/11 | |
| Writing: 1.14(d,e,f) and 2.12, 2.14 (added on 9/10) | 9/13 | |||
| 9/10 | Section 2 | Skills: 2.4, 3.3, 3.6(j-m), 3.7(f,h), 4.12, 4.13(a,b) | 9/18 | |
| Sections 3 & 4 | Writing: 3.8, 4.14, 4.16, 4.20 Note: In 4.16, assume x is a positive real number. |
9/20 | ||
| 9/17 | Section 5 | Skills: 5.4, 5.5, 5.6(a,c,e), 5.7, 5.16 | 9/25 | |
| Section 6 | Writing: 5.24, 5.25, 6.10 | 9/27 | ||
| 9/24 | Section 6 | Skills: 6.11(e-h), 6.12(d-f), 6.20, 6.23, 6.25, 6.26 | 10/2 | |
| Section 7 | (No Writing Quiz; Exam 1 on 10/4/12) | |||
| 10/1 | Section 7 | Skills: 7.5, 7.7(a,b,d), 7.9, 7.10, 7.15(a,b,d) | 10/9 | |
| Section 8 (partial) | Takehome Writing Problem #1 | 10/11 | ||
| 10/8 | Section 8 (finish) | Skills: 8.4, 8.10, 10.6, 10.7, 10.15 | 10/16 | |
| Section 10 | Writing: 10.4, 10.13, 10.16, 10.19, 10.22 | 10/18 | ||
| 10/15 | Section 11 | Skills: 11.3(a,c,e), 11.6, 11.7, 11.11. | 10/23 | |
| Section 12 | Writing: 12.5, 12.6, 12.10 (Hint: use Theorem 12.12) | 10/25 | ||
| 10/22 | Section 13 | Skills: 12.3(e,n), 12.4(e,n), 13.3(a,b,c), 13.4(a,b,c) | 10/30 | |
| Writing Problems (pdf) | 11/1 | |||
| 10/29 | Section 14 | Skills: 13.7(a,b,c), 13.10, 14.4 (Use Heine-Borel) | 11/6 | |
| Section 16 (start) | No writing problems and fewer skills problems: Use the time to study for the test! (Exam on 11/8/12) |
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| 11/5 | Section 16 (finish) | Skills: 16.6(a), 16.6(b) [Can use Theorem 16.8 on (b)], 16.10 | 11/13 | |
| Section 17 | Takehome Writing Problem #2 | 11/15 | ||
| 11/12 | Section 18 | Skills: 17.3(a), 17.6, 17.8, 17.15(c), 18.3(a,d), 18.4 | 11/20 | |
| Section 32 (Start) | (No writing quiz on Thanksgiving, 11/22....) | |||
| 11/19 | Section 32 | Skills: 16.7 (May Use Thm 17.1, 17.7), 18.10, 32.5(b,c,e,g,h) | 11/27 | |
| Writing Practice: 17.7, 18.11, 18.12, 32.8 | 11/29 | |||
| 11/26 | Section 33 | Takehome Writing Problem #3 Note the different schedule! |
12/4 | |
| No writing problems; study for Exam #3. | ||||
| 12/3 | Section 34 | Skills: 33.3(a,e,i), 33.5(b,c,d), 33.6, 34.3(a,c,e) | 12/11 | |
| 12/10 | Review for Final Exam | |||
| 12/17 | Final Exam: Monday 12/17 at 1:30pm See above for location, old exams, etc. |
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All of the instructors in Math 3283W have agreed to hold common office hours, meaning you can attend any teaching assistant's office hours, regardless of which section of the class you are in. Besides Professor Rogness, whose office is in Vincent 4, the rest of the instructors will hold their office hours in Vincent 502.
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9am-10am | Nick Switala | David Morawski | Nick Switala | David Morawski | |
| 10am-11am | Discussion | Discussion | |||
| 11am-12pm | Lecture | Discussion | Lecture | Discussion | Lecture |
| 12pm-1pm | Prof Rogness (From 12:15-2:15) |
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| 1pm-2pm | Denis Bashkirov | ||||
| 2pm-3pm | Maggie Ewing (From 2:00-4:00) |
Kate Burgers | Denis Bashkirov (2:15-3:15) | Kate Burgers | |
| 3pm-4pm |
(Office hours will start during the second week of class.)
We record your numeric scores, not letter grades, but to give you an idea of how you're doing in the class I will post approximate after exams. If the A line is 90, that means 90 is the lowest score in the A range, so it's the lowest A-. 89 would be the highest B+ in that situation.
| Exam 1 | Exam 2 | Exam 3 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | 90 | 90 | 90 |
| B | 80 | 80 | 80 |
| C | 68 | 60 | 60 |
| D | 55 | 45 | 50 |
