SYLLABUS


MATH 111 PreCalculus Fall, 2018



Instructor: Ivan C. Sterling, 177 SH, cell 240-431-8185, isterling@smcm.edu.


Office Hours: TBA & by appt


Book: Functions Modeling Change (3rd Edition), Connally et.al.


Course Outline: Chapters 1-9, 11, 12


Tests and Grades: There will be four exams (worth 80% of your course grade, 20% each). One of the four exams will be the non-comprehensive final. Homework will be part of your grade (worth 20%). The homework will be collected at the beginning of class on the day it’s due. Late homework will not be accepted. After it is collected some of the homework problems will be selected for grading by the TA. The exam problems will be the same or similar to those in the homework and the examples worked in class.


Extra Credit: You can earn up to three extra credit points by attending an NSM colloquium and giving me an at most two paragraph summary of the lecture.


Dates for the exams: F 9/21, F 10/19, M 11/19; Final: M 12/10 2-4:15


Grading-roughly: 90-100% A,A- 80-90 B+,B,B- 70-80 C+,C,C 60-70 D+,D <60 F


Teaching Assistant: Allison Tesch, astesch@smcm.edu, cell 443-789-3929, Office Hours /Review Sessions: TBA


At the completion of MATH 111, students will be able to categorize functions and graphs as demonstrated by illustrating them with examples.

At the completion of MATH 111, students will be able to illustrate transformations, compositions, inverses, and combinations of functions as demonstrated by manipulating them analytically and graphically.

At the completion of MATH 111, students will be able to represent polynomial and rationnal functions as demonstrated by deducing their basic properties.

At the completion of MATH 111, students will be able to formulate convincing mathematical arguments in writing as demonstrated by providing solutions to mathematical problems.

At the completion of MATH 111, students will be able to calculate trigonometric functions and their inverses as demonstrated by manipulating them analytically and graphically.