The homepage for the Liberal Arts Mathematics I course has been changed as of May 2012. The current page may be used for Summer 2012, but you will probably prefer the new page. In any case, neither page is to be used without completing the Startup and Orientation.
Starting Summer 2012 the menu-driven page at the link
will be used for startup and orientation to the course, including the course homepage, assignments, due dates, course of study, communications and much more.
If you have not yet done so, you need to read the information in the Initial Information document and work through the Orientation and Startup to which that document refers you.
It is necessary to have done so in order to understand this page and to use it properly.
You have been introduced to this course and this page in the Orientation and Startup.
The links below will take you to the various sources of information.
You will have been introduced to the use of Open QA and Open Query documents and to the use of the DVDs in your Startup and Orientation, which should have been completed by the end of the first week of the class. Your text is very well-written and accessible. Using these resources, you are expected to simply begin working through the course, following the posted schedule. You are welcome to work ahead of the schedule.
Assignments are numbered 01 - 29. The suggested pattern of activities for each assignments is as follows:
Table of Assignments and Specific Objectives
Module 1: Chapter 2 |
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Assignment 01 | Open QA | Text Section 2.1 | Open Query | |
Objectives: Know and apply
the following to answer questions and solve problems.
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Assignment 02 | Open QA | Text Section 2.2 | Open Query | |
Objectives: Know and apply
the following to answer questions and solve problems.
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Assignment 03 | Open QA | Text Section 2.3 | Open Query | |
Objectives: Know and apply
the following to answer questions and solve problems.
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Assignment 04 | Open QA | Text Section 2.4 | Open Query | |
Objectives: Know and apply
the following to answer questions and solve problems.
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Assignment 05 | Open QA | Text Section
2.5 (alternatively extension labeled 'Infinite Sets and their Cardinalities') |
Open Query | Complete Ch 2 Test within a week of completing Ch 2 assignments |
Objectives: Know and apply
the following to answer questions and solve problems.
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Module 2: Chapter 1 |
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Assignment 06 | Open QA | Text Section 1.1 | Open Query | |
Objectives: Know and apply
the following to answer questions and solve problems.
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Assignment 07 | Open QA | Text Section 1.2 | Open Query | |
Objectives: Know and apply
the following to answer questions and solve problems.
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Assignment 08 | Open QA | Text Section 1.3 | Open Query | |
Objectives: Know and apply
the following to answer questions and solve problems.
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Assignment 11 | Open QA | Text Section 1.4 | Open Query | Complete Ch 1 Test within a week of completing Ch 1 assignments |
Objectives: Know and apply
the following to answer questions and solve problems.
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Module 3: Chapter 3 |
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Assignment 12 | Open QA | Text Section 3.1 | Open Query | |
Objectives: Know and apply
the following to answer questions and solve problems.
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Assignment 13 | Open QA | Text Section 3.2 | Open Query | |
Objectives: Know and apply
the following to answer questions and solve problems.
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Assignment 14 | Open QA | Text Section 3.3 | Open Query | |
Objectives: Know and apply
the following to answer questions and solve problems.
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Assignment 15 | Open QA | Text Section 3.4 | Open Query | |
Objectives: Know and apply
the following to answer questions and solve problems.
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Assignment 16 | Open QA | Text Section 3.5 | Open Query | |
Objectives: Know and apply
the following to answer questions and solve problems.
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Assignment 17 | Open QA | Text Section 3.6 | Open Query | Complete Ch 3 Test within a week of completing Ch 3 assignments |
Objectives: Know and apply
the following to answer questions and solve problems.
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Module 4: Chapter 4 |
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Assignment 18 | Open QA | Text Section 4.1 | Open Query | |
Objectives: Know and apply
the following to answer questions and solve problems.
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Assignment 19 | Open QA | Text Section 4.2 | Open Query | |
Objectives: Know and apply
the following to answer questions and solve problems.
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Assignment 20 | Open QA | Text Section 4.3 | Open Query | |
Objectives: Know and apply
the following to answer questions and solve problems.
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Assignment 21 | Open QA | Text Section 4.4 | Open Query | |
Objectives: Know and apply
the following to answer questions and solve problems.
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Assignment 22 | Open QA |
Text Section
4.5 (alternatively listed as 'Extension: Modular Systems') |
Open Query | |
Objectives: Know and apply
the following to answer questions and solve problems.
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Module 5: Chapter 5 |
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Assignment 23 | Open QA | Text Section 5.1 | Open Query | Complete Ch 4 Test within a week of completing Ch 4 assignments |
Objectives: Know and apply
the following to answer questions and solve problems.
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Assignment 24 | Open QA | Text Section 5.2 | Open Query | |
Objectives: Know and apply
the following to answer questions and solve problems.
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Assignment 25 | Open QA | Text Section 5.3 | Open Query | |
Objectives: Know and apply
the following to answer questions and solve problems.
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Assignment 26 | Open QA | Text Section 5.4 | Open Query | |
Objectives: Know and apply
the following to answer questions and solve problems.
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Assignment 27 | Open QA | Text Section 5.5 | Open Query | Complete Ch 5 Test by the end of the term |
Objectives: Know and apply
the following to answer questions and solve problems.
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Module 6: Chapter 7 |
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Assignment 28 | Open QA | Text Section 7.1 and 7.2 | Open Query | |
Objectives: Know and apply
the following to answer questions and solve problems.
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Assignment 29 | Open QA | Text Section 7.3 | Open Query | Complete Ch 7 Test by the end of the term |
Objectives: Know and apply
the following to answer questions and solve problems.
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Standard Assignment from Text Section:
Read the text and work on paper every problem at the end of the section which is numbered as a multiple of 3 or 5 (multiples of 3 would be 3, 6, 9, 12, ...; multiples of 5 would be 5, 10, 15,...; you should therefore work problems 3, 5, 6, 9, 10, 12, 15, 18, 20, 21, ...).