College Algebra - Spring 2025

Instructor: Ted Wetherbee

Fond du Lac Tribal & Community College
2101 14th Street
Cloquet, Minnesota 55720

Office: W217
Phone: 218-879-0840
Email: ted@fdltcc.edu

Spring 2025 Class Schedule:
  Time         Days   Room Course
   9:00-10:15  M_W__  228  Math 1030
  10:30-11:20  M_W__  228  Math 0025
  12:30- 1:45  M_W__  227  Csci 1020
   2:00- 3:15  M_W__  228  Math 1010
   asynchronous       Zoom Math 2001 

Office Hours in Room W217 and Zoom:
  Monday        Tuesday  Wednesday     Thursday  Friday
  11:30-12:20   8-11     11:30-12:20   --------  ------

Course Website: http://tedwetherbee.org/m1010/

All materials handed out in class will be on D2L.

Text (online: Free)

College Algebra, by Jay Abramson (senior author)
Openstax:  college-algebra

From the textbook website you can view the textbook online using their viewer, you can download the entire book in PDF format, or you can download for Kindle. You can also download the entire textbook in PDF format from this local server directory:

College_Algebra_Abramson.pdf

Calculator

You may have a calculator already, but make sure that it is a scientific calculator. If you need to buy one, I recommend a cheap calculator like a TI-30XS Multiview. This does what you need, and the bookstore sells them for under $20 . If you have a problem getting one, let me know. You need to have it available for all assignments. You do not need a more expensive graphing calculator, but, if you have one, it will be fine.

Exams and Grading

3 tests     3x100 = 300
1 final             150
25 homework 4x25 =  100
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                    550 total

90-100%   A
80-90%    B
70-80%    C
60-70%    D
0-60%     F

Scores from tests are posted on D2L here: 
https://fdltcc.learn.minnstate.edu/

The Course

This course addresses FDLTCC liberal education requirements (Competencies Across the Curriculum) in problem solving and technology. You should come to class everyday! This is the easy way to do well in any course, and it is especially true for math classes. There are exercises in the text for you to do, and these are usually answered at the end of each chapter. You will also get homework assignments on handouts, and you should complete then hand these in at the beginning of the next class. You homework grade is based on completing and turning in these homework handouts. You will also get sample exams which will be similar in length and content to the in-class exams. Let me know if there is are accommodations you need for the class.

Tentative Schedule -College Algebra - Spring 2025

Mon jan13  1 1.1 real numbers
             1.2 exponents and scientific notation  
             H1 (in D2L under Materials : Content)        
Wed jan15  2 1.3 radicals and rational expressions                 
             H2

Mon jan20  H        
Wed jan22  3 1.4 polynomials
             1.5 factoring polynomials  
             H3              

Mon jan27  4 1.6 rational expressions
             H4
Wed jan29  5 2.1 Cartesian plane
             2.3 models and applications  
             H5  

Mon feb03  6 2.4 complex numbers
             2.5 quadratic equations 
             H6 (sample test 1 in D2L)
Wed feb05  7 2.7 linear and absolute value inequalities  
             H7 

Mon feb10  8 Test 1
Wed feb12  9 3.1 Functions
             3.2 domain and range
             3.4 composition
             3.5 tranformation
             3.7 function inverses  

Mon feb17  H     
Wed feb19 10 4.1 Linear Functions
             4.2 modeling with linear functions

Mon feb24 11 4.3 fitting linear models to data
             Linear Regression Calculator				
Wed feb26 12 Test 2           

Mon mar03 13 5.1 quadratics
             5.2 polynomials
             5.3 graphs of polynomial functions                        
Wed mar05 14 5.4 dividing polynomials
             5.6 rational functions  

Spring Break

Mon mar17 15 Conic Sections: parabola and ellipse, graphing with Desmos.com
             NASA Maven Mars
             Kepler's Laws Orbits
             Halley's comet
             8.1 The Ellipse
             Conic Sections: circle, parabola, ellipse, hyperbola                 
Wed mar19 16 6.1 exponential functions
             6.2 graphs of exponential functions                

Mon mar24 17 6.3 logarithmic functions
             6.4 graphs of log functions       
Wed mar26 18 calculation with logarithms, and uses of     

Mon mar31 19 6.5 properties of logs
             6.6 exponential and log equations
             radio-carbon dating              
Wed apr02 20 6.7 exponential and log models and applications        

Mon apr07 21 7.1 systems of linear equations in 2 variables     
Wed apr09 22 7.2 systems of linear equations in 3 variables
             triangulation in games

Mon apr14 23 Test 3
Wed apr16 24 7.5 matrices and operations
             7.7 matrix algebra and inverses, solving systems

Mon apr21 25 7.8 determinants and Cramer's rule                  
Wed apr23 26 9.1 sequences and series
             9.2 arithmetic sequences             

Mon apr28 27 9.3 geometric sequences and series
             9.5 counting      
Wed apr30 28 9.6 binomial theorem
             9.6 binomial probabilities
             Applications of the binomial theorem

Mon may05 29 Final Exam Review
Wed may07 T1 (9-10:50 room 228 Math1030) (11-12:50 room 227 Csci1020)
Thu may08 T2 
Fri may09 NC 

Mon may12 T3             
Tue may13 T4 12-1:50 room 228 Math1010


Plagiarism
Plagiarism, or presenting the writing of another as your own (a.k.a. “copying”), results in an F for this course and is subject to any other disciplinary actions mandated by this institution and the Minnesota State system.

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