Projects for Precalculus, MAT172
Text: R. Larson and R.P. Hostetler
Precalculus, Houghton Mifflin Company 7th Edition
http://college.hmco.com/mathematics/larson/precalculus/7e/student_home.html
Supplies: A spiral notebook of graph paper for notes.
A cheap scientific calculator with buttons for sin, cos, tan,
Ln, and Log.
Homework: Approximately 2 hours of homework will be assigned
each meeting and additional review assignments will be given on weekends.
Most faculty
will be checking whether the homework is completed while students do
classwork. Odd problems have answers in the
back so students can check their work before proceeding to the next problem.
Working with study partners can make homework easier and more fun.
Math Lab:
All students should plan on spending at least an hour a week at the Math Lab in
Gillet 222. Be sure to have someone look over your homework to see if you are doing it correctly as an answer which matches the one in the back of the book doesn't guarantee you are doing things correctly.
Projects:
Online Completing the Square Project from Arkansas State.
Online Credit Card and Student Loans Worksheet
Online Inverses of Functions with Exponentials
Online Exponential Problem Sheet
Review for Right Triangle Trigonometry
Syllabi and Projects for calculus and precalculus courses at Lehman College are available at http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/calculus/ .