Lehman College Syllabus for College Algebra, MAT104, 2005
Prerequisite:
Placement by the COMPASS EXAM.
Text: Aufmann, Barker & Lockwood, Algebra with Trigonometry
for College Students, Houghton Mifflin Company 6th Edition
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. Answers to the odd problems are in the back of the textbook
and should be consulted before proceeding to the next problem.
Math Lab:
All students should plan on spending at least an hour a week at the Math Lab in
Gillet 222. Some faculty may require proof of attendance.
Grading:
There will be three exams and a cumulative final. Instructors may
also choose to grade homework.
Students who are not prepared to take Precalculus at the end of the semester
will not be passed. Students planning to take Precalculus should aim for
A's.
Syllabus:
Lesson 1: 3.1-3.2 Review Polynomials
Lesson 2: 3.3-3.5 Review Factoring
Weekend Review: Review 1.1-1.3 on your own.
Lesson 3: 4.1-4.2 Rational Expressions
Lesson 4: 4.3 Rational Expressions
Lesson 5: 4.4-5 Ratios and Proportions
Lesson 6: Catchup and Review
Lesson 7: Exam I (students who fail this exam should drop the course)
Lesson 8: 5.1-5.2 Integer and Rational Exponents
Lesson 9: 5.3-5.5 Radical Expressions and Complex Numbers
Lesson 10: 6.1-2 Graphing Lines
Lesson 11: 6.3-6.4 Identifying Lines and Applications
Lesson 12: 7.1-2 Solving Quadratic Equations
Lesson 13: 7.3-5 Graphing and Applications
Lesson 14: Exam II (students who fail this exam should drop the course)
Lesson 15: 8.1 Introduction to Functions and Review
Lesson 16: 8.2 Graphs of functions
Lesson 17: 8.4 Variation and Applications
Lesson 18: 11.1 Exponential Functions
Lesson 19: 11.2 Logarithm Functions
Lesson 20: 12.1-2 Angles and Right Triangle Trigonometry
Online help
Lesson 21: 12.3 Trigonometric Functions
Lesson 22: Catch up and Review
Lesson 23: Exam III
Lesson 24: 9.1-2 The Parabola and the Circle
Lesson 25: 9.3-4 The Ellipse and Hyperbola
Lesson 26: 10.1-10.2 Solving Systems of Equations
Lesson 27: 10.5 Nonlinear Systems
Lesson 28: Review for the Final
Final: The final will be given during Finals Week covering
the entire course.
The final exam will not be waived for students who are already
acing the course. This is their opportunity to reinforce their
knowledge and prepare themselves for the future.
This syllabus and others are available at:
http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/calculus/ .