Math 0020 Beginning Algebra
Summer 2007
T W Th 8-9:40 Room 228

Homework Files
    h6,  h7,  h8,  h9, h10,
   h11, h12, h13, h14, h15,
   h16, h17, h18, h19

Test Files
   sample test 1 (key), test 1 (key),
   sample test 2 (key), test 2 (key),
   sample final  (key)
Quiz Files
   q1 (key), q2 (key), 
   q3 (key), q4 (key), 
   q5 (key), q6 (key),
   q7 (key), q8 (key),

Textbook (Online, Free at: www.freeloadpress.com ) 
     Principles of Elementary Algebra, Nustad and Wesner, 3d ed.
Calculator Scientific Calculator
Website http://cs.fdltcc.edu/m0020
Instructor Ted Wetherbee
     Office: W217 10-11am TWTh, 879-0840
     Email: ted@fdltcc.edu
     Wetherbee's schedule:

Grading
     2 tests 2x100     = 200
     1 final             200
     20 homework 20x5  = 100
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     TOTAL               500
     90-100% A, 80-90% B, 70-80% C, 60-70% D, 0-60% F

Homework
     There is homework from the textbook for you to complete after each class.  For
     each homework assignment, put your name on each page, label each problem with the
     section and number (e.g. 1.1 #7), and show your work toward your
     answers.  The odd problems are answered in the text, so you should be checking
     your homework as you work problems.
     
Tests
     The three tests (test1, test2, and the final) need to be completed for
     credit in this class.  We will review tests the previous class day.  You
     will receive sample tests for preparation.  These samples are straightforward
     in that you can ensure success on tests by ensuring that you know how to do
     every sample test problem on your own.

NOTES
     1) Let me know if there is reason for special accommodation so that I can make
     arrangements for you.
     2) It is my observation gathered from years of teaching math courses that people
     who attend every class, read their textbook, complete their homework assignments
     (on time), and study carefully for tests always pass and almost always get good grades.
     3) Come to class every day! This is the easy way to ensure success.

Getting using the free textbook
     You probably do not need to print out the entire textbook.  You need to go to the website
     www.freeloadpress.com and obtain the book.  
     
     Follow the directions for students.  You will need to select a user name (usually your email
     address) and a password during registration.  After registering, you will be able to download
     the textbook to your hard drive or USM storage device.  There are eleven files: one for each 
     of ten chapters and one for the front matter.  These are PDF files which you can read
     with Adobe Acrobat reader (also free from www.adobe.com.  The total
     size of the files is 151 MB, but you don't need chapters 4, 5, 6, or 10.
     
     You can keep these files (the book) on your computer hard drive, one your USB storage device, or
     you can burn a CD-ROM.  Ask me, and I'll burn a CD-ROM for you, but you still need to register
     for the free book.
     
     I recomend that you print out those pages which you need, as you need them.  There are advertisements
     sprinkled throughout the text which you could avoid printing, but they will always be within your
     downloaded textbook files.

Tentative schedule for Math 0020 Summer 2007:
Tue June 5  1.1, 1.2 fractions, decimals, percents
   Homework 1: 1-1 # 1-25 odds, 43-53 odds, 55-79 odds; 1.2 # 11-71 odds
Wed June 6  1.3, 1.4, 1.5 reals, + - of reals
   Homework 2: 1.3 # 5,9,11,21,27,33,37-77 odds; 1.4 # 1-39 odds; 1.5 # 1-43 odds
Thu June 7  1.6, 1.7, 1.8 multiplication, division, and properties of reals
   Homework 3: 1.6 # 1-43 odds; 1.7 # 1-31 odds; 1.8 # 1-55 odds

Tue June 12 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 algebra notation, expressions, + - 
   Homework 4: 2.1 # 29-39 odds; 2.2 # 1-41 odds; 2.3 # 1-49 odds
Wed June 13 2.4, 2.5 + - mult div properties of equality
   Homework 5: 2.4 # 1-43 odds; 2.5 # 1-39 odds
Thu June 14 2.6, 2.7 solving linear equations, formulas
   homework 6 handout
   
Tue June 19 2.8 applications of linear equations
   homework 7 handout
Wed June 20 2.9 linear inequalities
   homework 8 handout
Thu June 21 Test 1
   sample test 1 (key), test 1 (key)
      
Tue June 26 3.1, 3.3 exponents, definitions
   homework 9 handout
Wed June 27 3.4, 3.5 exponents, rules, scintific notation 
   homework 10 handout
Thu June 28 7.1, 7.2 Cartesian plane, graphs of linear equations
   homework 11 handout

Tue July 3  7.3, 7.4 slope and equations of lines
   homework 12 handout
Wed July 4  HOLIDAY
Thu July 5  7.5, 7.6 graphing linear inequalities, linear functions
   homework 13 handout

Tue July 10 Test 2
   sample test 2 (key), test 2 (key)
Wed July 11 8.1, 8.2 solving linear systems by graphing, elimination
   homework 14 handout
Thu July 12 8.3 solving linear systems by substitution
   homework 15 handout

Tue July 17 8.4 applications of linear systems
   homework 16 handout
Wed July 18 8.5 graphing systems of linear inequalities
   homework 17 handout
Thu July 19 9.1 principal roots, 9.2 product properties of radicals
   homework 18 handout

Tue July 24 3.2 products of algebraic expressions
   homework 19 handout
Wed July 25 Review
Thu July 26 Final Exam
   Sample final (key)