Rick (Wen) Zhou

Math 140, Precalculus, Section P1 (Fall 2006)

Instructor:  Rick Zhou

Office:  499 Carver Hall

Office Hours:  MWF 10:00–10:50am, other times by appointment

Other Help: Math help room (Carver 385) is highly recommended

E-mail:  riczw@iastate.edu

Website:  http://www.public.iastate.edu/~riczw/f06math140.htm 

Course Description: The Prerequisites for this course is to have satisfactory performance on placement exam, 2 years of high school algebra; 1 year of high school geometry. This course covers coordinate geometry, complex numbers, quadratic and polynomial equations, functions, graphing, polynomial and rational functions, exponential and logarithmic functions, systems of equations. Students in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences may not count Math 140, 141, 142, 149, or 195 toward Group III of the General Education Requirements.

Syllabus

Homework: There will be weekly homework assignment through the whole semester, each assignment will consist of 15 problems (less or more), you can find all of them on the web-page of the course. There will be no homework during the exam week. Each assignment is worth 15 points. Each homework will be handed out on Friday and due on the coming Wednesday, no late assignments allowed. No homework during the week for Exam I and Exam II.

Quizzes: On each Friday I will end the class with a quiz over previous material. The quizzes will always require closing book and notes. You may NOT make up quizzes. There will be no quizzes during the exam weeks. Each quiz will earn 10 points. I will take the best 10 quizzes for your final grade, i.e. 10 out of 11.

Exams: We will have 3 one-hour exams throughout the course. Each one is worth 100 points.  There will be a departmental final at the end of the semester. The final exam will be 120 minutes and is worth 300 points.

Grade is available.

Useful links:

ISU Math Department

Computer lab hours

Help Room and other academic help you can find around campus

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