Sample Quizzes

Instructor: N.V. Alexander (aka drn)
Office: 2009, Bldg. 2000 Phone: 510-723-6890
Email: nalexander@igc.org Web site: http://www.nvaphysics.com
 OFFICE HOURS: CLICK HERE
The textbook  is Bittenger/Ellenbogen, Elementary Algebra , 8th ED, with MYMATHLAB at:  http://www.pearsonmylabandmastering.com/northamerica/mymathlab/.  (It's only a title. Check out the Study Aids for the text  at Chabot  Bookstore. Click here for Tentative Course Outline. )  NOTE:  MATH 65A ONLY COVERS CHAPTER 1,2,3 & 4.
FINAL EXAM
Lectures will generally follow the text. Try to  scope the assigned material before you come to class. Please ask questions in class or during my office hours. I must  be honest.  The course can get hectic. I strongly recommend you form  study groups; explore the wealth of resources I have tried to provide.  Read on .  Click here for my office hours. Click here for graph paper useful for plotting work throughout the semester.
Homework will be assigned but not collected. Go to the Discussion Board when I set it up  to get hints on how to do the problems or for other questions; Conversate with your classmate (and me) !   For every even problem I do in class, you do the two adjacent odd numbered problems at home. I will try to relate each even problem I do to the examples worked out in the body of the section of the book. The problems are crucial to learning the material so you can elevate to the level !   

I will give weekly quizzes that will be collected and graded. These quizzes will be given in class . You can  get a preview of them by clicking the links to the left under "Sample Quizzes." This will get you open for the real event.  Study and take the samples as if they were the real thing, and you will be rewarded with a better score than not. For real. The  quizzes could account for 33% of your total grade. The quiz problems will be based on the odd problems that you do at home. Bring a Scantron, and NOT the half-sized ones. Thanks.

There will be 4 or 5 midterm exams that will be based on the material covered in the quizzes, and therefore on the odd problems that you do for homework.  Do your homework every night! You shouldn't collab.  with your friends during the exams. Please  work independently; be original.  Shine on your own work. No make up exams or quizzes are allowed.  You can make up lost points from missed quizzes by doing the extra credit assignments often assigned in class aka ICQ's. Any disputes on grading must be resolved one or two days from the day that I return the test or quiz.

You must remain silent when I am lecturing to the class otherwise you will disturb others and could be politely asked to leave the room. Thanks in advance for your cooperation.

Attendance is critical to the mission of  learning. If you miss class on a regular basis you could fall hopelessly behind. Use my website at http://www.nvaphysics to keep up to date on the homework problems you have missed. You could be dropped if you miss class 6 times. Vacations and job related absences would not be excused. You must work your personal and occupational schedule around the class meeting times.

All students should obtain an email address from the college even  if they do not already have one. You can get one by going to any computer (check libraries or Kinko's), visiting mail.google.com  and signing up WITH GMAIL. 

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Grades in the course will be based on a total score consisting approximately of the following contributions.

 

Quizzes: about 33%; EXAMS ABOUT 67 %

 

90-100%=A   80-89%=B   70-79%=C  60-69%=D

NOTES

TENTATIVE COURSE OUTLINE

Chapter

Topic

1

Expressions : Translate, factor, distribute, collect like terms, a taste of word problems, signed addition and subtraction, exponents...stuff like that.   

2

Equations y = mx + b. Solve for m, for example.
3 Graphing

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More Graphing.

4

Polynomials 

5

Poly's and factoring

6

Rational expressions
8 Radicals
9 Quadratic Equations

Test 1|Test 2|Test 3|Test4|Test5