sections AA, AB
Cory Barnes
barnesco at math.washington.edu
sections AC, AD
Jie Chen
chenjie at math.washington.edu
sections BA, BB
Jing Hong
hjiff at math.washington.edu
sections BC, BD
Yang Song
yangsong at math.washington.edu
Midterm 1: Thursday, January 31
Midterm 2: Thursday, February 28
Final Exam:
Saturday, March 16
5 to 7:50 PM
Location:
120 A: Kane 210
120 B: Kane 220
Statistics for the final exam: n=260; min=0; 1st quartile=31; median=44; 3rd quartile=53; max=65 (2 students)
Here is a youtube video showing a sculpture by Arthur Ganson. The idea is that the gears reduce the rate of rotation so much that, although everything is turning, the final, slowest moving part would take a couple trillion years to make one rotation, and so Mr. Ganson embedded it in concrete.
Here is a review sheet for the final exam. All old final exams are good with the exception of problems involving the addition of multipart functions (which only appear on some finals prior to Autumn 2009).
Answers to the second midterm exam are now in the exam archive.
Statistics on the second midterm exam:
n=273; min=0; 1st quartile=17; median=23; 3rd quartile=28; max=39.
I will post scores and an estimated grade for everyone on Catalyst in the next few days.
CLUE will be holding a review session this Tuesday for the upcoming midterm.
Date: Tuesday, February 26th
Time: 8-10 pm
Location: MGH 389
All problems on the following second midterms in the archive are worth practicing:
The following problems on the following exams are worth practicing:
Here is a review sheet for the upcoming second midterm exam. Information about using the exam archive to prepare for the midterm will be posted soon.
A student asked for one, so I wrote a set of logarithm practice problems (with answers!).
Answers to the first midterm are no in the exam archive at the 120 Materials Website (link at right).
Statistics for the first midterm exam: n=294; 1st quartile=11; median=17; 3rd quartile=23; max=40 (one student).
Here is table giving an approximate 4.0-scale interpretation of your exam score. This is just to give you a rough idea of how you are doing. The curve used to create this interpretation will not be the same curve used at the end of the course to determine your grade, since that curve will involve more data, but it will be somewhat similar.
| ≤10 | 0.0 |
| 11 | 0.7 |
| 12 | 1.0 |
| 13 | 1.3 |
| 14 | 1.6 |
| 15 | 2.0 |
| 16 | 2.3 |
| 17 | 2.6 |
| 18 | 2.7 |
| 19 | 2.8 |
| 20 | 2.9 |
| 21 | 3.0 |
| 22 | 3.1 |
| 23 | 3.1 |
| 24 | 3.2 |
| 25 | 3.3 |
| 26 | 3.4 |
| 27 | 3.5 |
| 28 | 3.6 |
| 29 | 3.7 |
| 30 | 3.8 |
| 31 | 3.9 |
| ≥32 | 4.0 |
Here is a review sheet for the first midterm exam.
Welcome to Math 120 A, B Winter quarter 2013.
Announcements and other useful things will be posted here during the quarter.
Textbook: The textbook for this course is Precalculus, by Collingwood, Prince and Conroy. We will use the 2012-13 edition (this is the latest edition). The book can be purchased at Professional Copy and Print, located at 4200 University Way (on the Ave one block south of the UW bookstore). It is not available at the UW bookstore.
You do not have to purchase the textbook. It is available electronically on the Math 120 Materials Website (link at right), and is linked electronically from the WebAssign homework.
Discussion Board: The course has a discussion board (link at right). This is a great way to ask questions of me in a way that will benefit all students in the course. You can ask about homework questions, studying methods, etc. You can also use it to coordinate study sessions with other students.
Homework: We will be using WebAssign for homework.
WebAssign: You can log in to WebAssign here. This will require your UW Net ID. Your UW Net ID is the part of your university email address before the @ symbol. The password to log in is your UW Net ID password.
You will need to purchase an access code before the grace period ends. You can purchase an access code on the WebAssign website after logging in.
The first homework assignment will be due on the night of Thursday, January 17.
Linear to Linear Algebra Example
L2L Functions and Fixed Points
Linear to Linear Rational Function applet
Putting sinusoidal functions in standard form
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