Course Outline

Math 98 – Fall 2008

Class 1 – Monday, August 25

Review of 9 axioms, Problem Set 1

Homework: Problem Set 1

Class 2 –Wednesday, August 27

COMPASS

Homework: Problem Set 2 and from summer: Problem Sets 5, 6

Class 3 – Wednesday, September 3

Algebraic Expressions, Evaluating Algebraic Expressions

Negative Numbers, Absolute Value

Equations, Inequalities,

Notation for Inequality

Solution of an Equation or inequality

To Solve Equations and Inequalities

Homework: Problem Sets 3, 4 (Problem Set 3 is multiple choice)

Class 4 – Monday, September 8

Operations with positive and negative numbers

Homework: Problem Set 5

Class 5 – Wednesday, September 10

Square roots

Homework: Problem Set 6

Class 6 – Monday, September 15

Review for Exam 1

Class 7 – Wednesday, September 17

Exam 1

Class 8 – Monday, September 22

Solving one-step and two-step linear equations

Homework: Problem Set 7, #1 and 2

Class 9 – Wednesday, September 24

Basic Percent Problems

Homework: Problem Set 8

Class 10 – Monday, September 29

The Distributive Law

Combining Like Terms

Solving linear equations with the unknown on both sides

Application of Linear Equations 1 (Word Problems 1)

Homework: Problem Set 9

Class 11 – Wednesday, October 1

Simplifying Algebraic Expressions

Homework: Problem Set 10

Class 12 – Monday, October 6

More complicated equations

Perimeter

Homework: Problem Set 11

Class 13 – Wednesday, October 8

Conditional Equations, Identities, and Contradictions

Class 14 – Monday, October 13

Review

Class 15 – Wednesday, October 15

Exam 2 (same as the Midterm Exam)

Class 16 – Monday, October 20

Linear inequalities

Multiplying Algebraic Expressions and FOIL

Homework: Problem Set 12

Class 17 – Wednesday, October 22

The Rectangular Coordinate System

Graphing Linear Equations

Multiplying algebraic Expressions 2 (more than just FOIL)

Homework: Problem Set 13

Class 18 – Monday, October 27

Rules of Exponents

Factoring 1 – Factoring out the GCF (greatest common factor)

Factoring via the Difference of Squares Theorem

Homework: Problem Set 14

Class 19 – Wednesday, October 29

The Zero Product Rule

Solving Quadratic Equations

Homework: Problem Sets 15, 16

Class 20 – Monday, November 3

Factoring 2 – Factoring by grouping

Class 21 – Wednesday, November 5

Factoring 3 – Factoring by the AC-method

Homework: Problem Set 17

Class 22 – Monday, November 10

Review for Exam 3

The slope-intercept form of a line

Class 23 – Wednesday, November 12

Exam 3

Class 24 – Monday, November 17

An application of quadratic equations – in physics

Class 25 – Wednesday, November 19

The difference of cubes theorem

Integer exponents

Homework: Problem Set 18

Class 26 – Monday, November 24

Systems of linear equations

The elimination method (also called addition method)

Applications of systems of linear equations

Class 27 – Wednesday, November 26

Factoring the sum of cubes

Dependent and Inconsistent systems of linear equations

Homework: Problem Set 19 and Sample Final Exam Version A

Class 28 – Monday, December 1

Scientific Notation

Class 29 – Wednesday, December 3

The slope of a line

Class 30 – Monday, December 8

Final Review

Class 31 – Wednesday, December 10

Final Exam