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Math 407 Syllabus, Fall 2004

Each blue band represents the material to be covered in the following Friday quiz and assignment.

Green is holidays, red is exams.

The final exam is on Wednesday, December 15, 2:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.

Week Date Day Topics Reading Assignment (to hand in) Quiz Practice
1 8/23 Monday Concept Analysis pp. 1–5 p.14, no. 3 Reading + p. 14, no. 1.
  8/25 Wednesday Problem Analysis. Notes. pp. 5–10   Reading
  8/27 Friday Mathematical Connections. Notes. pp. 11–13   Reading
2 8/30 Monday What is a function? Notes. pp. 67–75   Reading + pp. 75, nos. 2–7
  9/1 Wednesday Problem Analysis pp. 76–78 p. 79, no. 6  
  9/3 Friday Exploring the definition of function. Notes. p. 75, problem 4
3 9/6 Monday Labor Day      
  9/8 Wednesday Operations and inverse functions. Notes. pp. 80–85 p. 85, nos. 2, 6, 7 Reading + p. 85, nos. 4, 5, 8
  9/10 Friday Analysis of functions pp. 86–94 No homework Reading + p. 94, nos. 1, 2, 4–7
4 9/13 Monday   Exam review    
  9/15 Wednesday Exam 1      
  9/17 Friday Exponentials and logs pp. 95–100 Assignment p. 100, nos. 1, 3, 4
5 9/20 Monday Growth rates pp. 101–112   p. 112, nos. 1, 4, 6
  9/22 Wednesday Problem analysis pp. 125–129    
  9/24 Friday Equality and equivalence 4.1.1   p. 140, nos. 5, 6, 9
6 9/27 Monday Solving equations 4.1.2 Assignment. p. 145, nos. 1–3, 7–9, 17
  9/29 Wednesday Linear equations. Notes. 4.2.1–2   p. 148, nos. 1–3, p. 153, no. 1
  10/1 Friday Higher degree equations. Notes. 4.2.3   p. 159, no. 1
7 10/4 Monday The solving process. Notes. 4.3.1–2   p. 163, nos. 1, 3, p. 166, no. 1
  10/6 Wednesday Cancelled  
  10/8 Friday Extended analysis. Notes. 4.3.4    
8 10/11 Monday Review. Notes.      
  10/13 Wednesday Exam 2      
  10/15 Friday Euclid and proof 7.1.1–2 p. 294, nos 8, 9 p. 289. nos. 4, 5
9 10/18 Monday Definitions 7.1.3 p. 294, nos. 2–4
  10/20 Wednesday Congruence 7.1.4   p. 302, nos. 3–5
  10/22 Friday        
10 10/25 Monday Translations and Rotations 7.2.1–2 pp. 306. no. 5; pp. 312, nos. 2, 4, 5, 9
  10/27 Wednesday More on Rotations 7.2.2 p. 313, no. 13, and this. p. 305, no. 2; p. 313, no. 11
  10/29 Friday Reflections 7.2.3   p. 320, nos. 1, 6, 10, 11
11 11/1 Monday Review of complex numbers      
  11/3 Wednesday The algebra of congruence transformations 7.2.4   p. 323, nos. 1, 3, 4, 5
  11/5 Friday   Field trip to David Pengelly's lecture on using history of math in teaching    
12 11/8 Monday Class presentations on congruence transformations      
  11/10 Wednesday Writing isometries as products of reflections 7.2.5   p. 328, nos. 2, 3, 4, 6
  11/12 Friday Homework review; classification of isometries 7.3.1 p. 320, nos. 7, 8, 9 p. 338, nos. 1, 3, 4, 10(a)–(d)
13 11/15 Monday Symmetry 7.3.2   p. 343, nos. 1, 13
  11/17 Wednesday Michigan State Survey      
  11/19 Friday Symmetry     p. 343, nos. 7, 9
14 11/22 Monday     p. 343, no. 10  
  11/24 Wednesday Assignment due.      
  11/26 Friday        
15 11/29 Monday        
  12/1 Wednesday        
  12/3 Friday        
16 12/6 Monday        
  12/8 Wednesday