Trigonometry - Fall 2017 - TH 12-12:50pm - Room 228

Tentative Schedule

Tue aug22  1 1.1 angles                              H1
Thu aug24  2 1.2 trig functions of acute alngles     H2

Tue aug29  3 1.3 solving right triangles             H3
Thu aug31  4 1.3

Tue sep05  5 1.4 trig functions of any angle         H4
Thu sep07  6 1.5 rotations and reflections of angles H5 text 1.5 7-14 all

Tue sep12  7 2.1 law of sines                        H5
Thu sep14  8 2.2 law of cosines                      H6

Tue sep19  9 2.4 area of a triangle                  H7
Thu sep21 10 2.5 circumscribed and inscribed triangles

Tue sep26 11 T1 review                               Sample Test 1
Thu sep28 12 T1

Tue oct03 13 3.1 basic trig identities
Thu oct05 14 3.2 sum and difference formulas

Tue oct10 15 3.3 double and half angle formulas
Thu oct12 16 4.1 radians and degrees

Tue oct17 17 4.2 arc length; 4.3 area of a sector
Thu oct19 NO CLASSES

Tue oct24 18 4.4 circular motion; linear and angular speed
Thu oct26 19 T2 review

Tue oct31 20 T2
Thu nov02 21 5.1 graphing trig functions

Tue nov07 22 5.2 properties of graphs of trig functions
Thu nov09 23 5.3 inverse trig functions

Tue nov14 24 6.1 solving trig equations
Thu nov16 25 6.3 complex numbers

Tue nov21 26 6.3
Thu nov23 HOLIDAY

Tue nov28 27 vectors and the dot product
Thu nov30 28 vectors and the dot product

Tue dec05 29 vectors and the cross product
Thu dec07 30 Final exam review

Tue dec12 T1 12-1:50pm Room 228 (math1015)
Wed dec13 T2  8-9:50am Room 228 (math2001), 12- 1:50pm Room 228 (math1010)
Thu dec14 T3
Fri dec15 T4


Instructor: Ted Wetherbee

Fond du Lac Tribal & Community College
2101 14th Street
Cloquet, Minnesota 55720

Office: W217
Phone: 218-879-0840
Email: ted@fdltcc.edu

Fall 2017 Class Schedule:
8-8:50am   MTWHF  Calculus 1           Room 228
12-12:50pm MWF    College Algebra      Room 228
12-12:50pm TH     Trigonometry         Room 228
-online-          Intro. to Pogramming -online-

Office Hours in Room W217:
Monday   Tuesday  Wednesday  Thursday  Friday
11-noon  11-noon  9-10am     9-10am    11-noon


Course Website: http://cs.fdltcc.edu/wetherbee/m1015/

All materials handed out in class will be online from this web site. You can also naviage from this simpler URL: math.fdltcc.edu

All current and past assignments are on the course website listed by date under the tentative schedule.

Text

Trigonometry, by Michael Corral
Publisher web page: http://www.mecmath.net/trig/
These textbooks cost about \$15 from our bookstore.


Calculators, Computers, PEDs (Personal Electronic Devices)

The TI 83+ and 84 are the most popular TI models, but the TI 85 and 86 also work well. Casio also has nice graphing calculators. The TI 89 is harder to use for this class and is just about the same cost as a mini- notebook computer which can be loaded up with free and better mathematical software. Get a cheap calculator and bring it to class. You can use these for exams and quizzes.

Do not play games, email, text, chat, surf, talk, etc. etc. on your PEDs. Turn these things off during class and put them away. At times a PED, laptop, or other computer device may be useful in class. Still, turn them off and put them away until you are told when they will be useful and allowed. PEDs and computers are not allowed for exams or quizzes.

SageMath: math.fdltcc.edu/sagemath

This is software like Mathematica and Maple which can do symbolic algebra, graphing, and many other mathematical things, but SageMath is free. You can download it yourself from sagemath.org then install on a Gnu/Linux machine, but it is probably easier to use the FDLTCC server above.

You can also use URL https://math.fdltcc.edu because this is a secure connection which is redirected from http://math.fdltcc.edu/sagemath; the "s" after "http" means secure. You may be told that there is no security certificate, and there is not one yet for this web site. You can safely add an exception for this sagemath website to just do math. (You should never do this for online banking or any other online service which handles anything personal which must be secure.)

Note that these are class accounts, so everyone will be able to see work done by everyone else. There is no privacy. Put nothing private or even identifiable to yourself online--which is excellent advice for everything on any Internet service. Make up worksheet names which you can remember yet which are not identifiable to yourself, and use these just for math.

2 tests     2x100 = 200
1 final             150
20 homework 5x20 =  100
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450 total

90-100%   A
80-90%    B
70-80%    C
60-70%    D
0-60%     F


The Course

This course addresses FDLTCC liberal education requirements (Competencies Across the Curriculum) in problem solving and technology. You should come to class everyday! This is the easy way to do well in any course, and it is especially true for math classes. There are exercises in the text for you to do, and these are usually answered at the end of each chapter. You will also get homework assignments on handouts, and you should complete then hand these in at the beginning of the next class. You homework grade is based on completing and turning in these homework handouts. You will also get sample exams which will be similar in length and content to the in-class exams. Let me know if there is are accommodations you need for the class.

Disabilities Notice

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Stephanie Hammitt, Vice President of Administration,
at 218.879.0810, shammitt@fdltcc.edu

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Anita Hanson, Counselor,
at 218-879-0819, anita.hanson@fdltcc.edu


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