Course Outline

Math 118 – Fall 2008

Class 1 – Monday, August 25

Course Information

Sets, Set Operations (2.1, 2.2)

Class 2 –Wednesday, August 27

Subsets, Venn Diagrams (2.3)

The Number of Elements in a Set (2.4)

Systematic Listing, Tree Diagrams (10.1)

Four-sided Polygons (8.2)

Homework: Problem Sets 1, 2

Class 3 – Wednesday, September 3

Complement of a Set (2.2)

Angles in Triangles and Polygons (8.1, 8.2)

The size of the union of two sets (10.2)

Homework: Problem Sets 3, 4

Class 4 – Monday, September 8

More angles (8.1)

Percents, simple and compound interest (13.1)

Homework: Problem Set 5

Class 5 – Wednesday, September 10

Difference of Two Sets (2.2)

Basic Percent Problems (handout)

Permutations (10.2) and Combinations (10.3)

Homework: Problem Sets 6, 7

Class 6 – Monday, September 15

More percents (handout)

Simple and Compound Interest (13.1)

Perimeter and Area of rectangles and triangles (8.3, 8.4)

No homework : )

Class 7 – Wednesday, September 17

Exam 1

Class 8 – Monday, September 22

Circumference and area of a circle (8.3)
Area of triangles, parallelograms, and trapezoids (8.4)

The number e (7.5 page 454)

Compound Interest (7.5 and 13.1)
Homework: Problem Set 8

Class 9 – Wednesday, September 24

The Number of Elements in a Set: A Problem Solving Tool (2.4)
Homework: Problem Sets 9, 10

Class 10 – Monday, September 29

Partial Payment with Simple Interest (13.1)
The Pythagorean Theorem (8.4)

Homework: Problem Set 11

Class 11 – Wednesday, October 1

Introduction to Probabilities (11.1, 11.2)

Volume (8.5)

Homework: Problem Sets 12, 13

Class 12 – Monday, October 6

The number of rectangles in a grid

Counting Techniques and Probability (11.2)

Homework: Problem Set 14

Class 13 – Wednesday, October 8

Computation of Probabilities (11.3)

Homework: Problem Sets 15, 16

Class 14 – Monday, October 13

Discount Rate

Installment Buying (13.3)

Class 15 – Wednesday, October 15

Exam 2 (same as the Midterm Exam)

Class 16 – Monday, October 20

Present Value of Future Events

Homework: Problem Set 17

Class 17 – Wednesday, October 22

Ratio Problems (6.6)

Similar Triangles (8.2)

Homework: Problem Sets 18, 19

Class 18 – Monday, October 27

Odds and Mathematical Expectation (11.6)

Homework: Problem Set 20

Class 19 – Wednesday, October 29

Similar Triangles within a Right Triangle

Homework: Problem Sets 21, 22

Class 20 – Monday, November 3

Binomial Theorem

Homework: Problem Set 23

Class 21 – Wednesday, November 5

The Thales Circle

Homework: Problem Sets 24, 25

Class 22 – Monday, November 10

Review for Exam 3

Decimal presentation of rational and irrational numbers (5.5)

Class 23 – Wednesday, November 12

Exam 3

Class 24 – Monday, November 17

Binomial Probabilities

Measures of Central Tendency: the Mean, Median, and Mode (12.2)

Homework: Problem Set 26

Class 25 – Wednesday, November 19

Measures of Dispersion: The Range and Standard Deviation (12.3)

Homework: Problem Set 27

Class 26 – Monday, November 24

Clock and Modular Arithmetic (9.3)

Class 27 – Wednesday, November 26

Infinite Sets (2.5)

Class 28 – Monday, December 1

Prime Numbers, divisibility (5.1)

Why square-root of 2 is irrational (handout)

Class 29 – Wednesday, December 3

Prime Numbers, divisibility (5.1)

Class 30 – Monday, December 8

Final Review

Class 31 – Wednesday, December 10

Final Exam