(updated 11/19/09)

MATH 017 “ELEMENTARY ALGEBRA” SYLLABUS

PROFESSOR: GRAMLICH

TEXT: CCP customized "ELEMENTARY ALGEBRA," by Marvin L. Bittinger

Pearson Custom Publishing, (isbn: 978-0-555-00423-4)

HOMEWORK is to do Margin Exercises (ME) in each section and other Section Exercises (SE) noted below. To study for EXAMS, review homework, in-class examples, and Unit test at end of chapter.

WEEK LESSON & In-Class Examples (from Section Exercises)

1 Introduction; A.1-A.2 (fraction-decimals-%);

1.5 (types of #s, comparing inequals);

2 1.1 (factors, GCF, factorization) #18; (LCM) #48;

1.2 (fractions: simplifyng, types, mult/div/add/sub) #16,32,40,47,51,60;

3 1.5 (absolute value) #17; 1.6-1.7 (add/sub signed #s) #54

1.8-1.9 (mult/div signed #s) #52; 1.3& 1.11 (Order of Operations) #70,80;

4 1.10 (properties, collect like terms) #54, 68 ,92;

1.4 (algebra vocab) #3,18,22,32,34; 1.11 (distributive & simplifying) #14, 22, 36

2.1 (seesaw principle), 2.2 #22; 2.3 (Solving for X- Equations) #6, 48, 68

*also for HW do 2.2 Skill Maintenance #43-52 & 2.3 Synthesis #103-106

5 2.4 (formulas/literal eqns), #6

*also for ME #15 find Mean when a=80, b=60, c=70, d=50.

2.6 (solving for X- Applications) 2, 10, 15, 34

6 EXAM 1 (ch 1),

2.7 (solving Inequalities) #54, 66; *also for HW do 2.7 Skill Maintenance #87-98

2.8 (solving Inequality Apps) #20, 22, 40; *also for HW do SE #39

Absolute Value Eqns for HW do p. 185 #57, p. 187 #40, p. 190 #70

7 3.1 (plotting) #2, 40; 3.2 (graphing ) #32, 44, 46;

A.3 (slope) #6-11, * identify slopes in 3.1, 3.2 HW

8 EXAM 2 (skill maintenance on ch 1 & 2)

3.3 (graphical method); 3.4 (substitution method) #4

9 3.5 (addition/elimination method) #11, 25, 29 all 3 methods

10 3.6 (applications) #10, 14, 28 *also for HW do SE #9, 11, 13, 15, 19, 27, 29

11 (expo laws) 4.1 #24, 25, 84, 102, 103; 4.2 #4, 32, 46, 54, 58, 68, 70, 76, 82

(definitions, polynomial addition, subtraction, multiplication)

4.3 #56, 80, 96, 98, 102; 4.4 #42; 4.5 #22, 56; 4.6 #26, 47, 90;

12 EXAM 3 (ch 3)

4.7 (GCF & grouping) #19, 44;

(polynomial factoring) 4.8 #16; 4.9 #10; 4.11 #47; 4.12 #14, 16, 20, 25

13 (solving quadratic eqns & applications) 4.13 #60; 4.14 #2

*for HW JUST do 4.13 SE #59, 61; 4.14 SE #1, 3

14 FINAL EXAM (chapters 1-4)