Math for
Liberal Arts
Students

News

  • (May 21) Sample final is posted. Spend Monday and Tuesday doing the old sample exams.
  • (Apr 5) Second Midterm on Monday! Here's a sample exam.
  • (Mar 27) Notes from today's lecture (with homework problems)
  • (Mar 27) Grades through Quiz 4 (with midterm)
  • Mar 20) Actual Exam posted
  • (Mar 2) Sample Exam posted.
  • (Feb 24) Monday's classes are now in 3S 113. Wednesday's classes are still in the old room.
  • (Feb 24) First Exam will take place on Wednesday, March 8.
  • (Feb 24) Homework assignments brought up to date.
  • (Feb 6) Homework assigned from Monday 2/6 lecture. Note that next Monday's quiz will cover this and Wednesday's homework, which is not yet posted.
  • (Feb 6) First Quiz.
  • (Feb 2) Sudoku assignment adjusted, 2nd homework added.
  • (Jan 30) First day of class, first assignment given below.
  • (Jan 5) Website operational

Coordinates

  • Professor Kevin O'Bryant
  • Course: Math 102
  • Office: Building 1S 202
  • Classroom: Building 1P 222
  • Classtime: Mon/Wed 12:20 - 2:15
  • Office Hours: MW after class

Policies

  • Grading and partial credit
  • Homework
  • Exams
  • Final grades
  • Late exams

Homework Assignments

  • Section 12.4: #1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
  • Section 12.2: #1, 3, 5, 13, 14, 15, 16
  • Section 12.1: #1, 3, 5, 9, 11, 17, 35
  • Section 11.6: #1 through 23 (odds only), 22
  • Section 11.5: #3, 5, 7-10, 15, 39, 40, 42
  • Section 11.4: #3-6, 11-20, 35-42
  • Section 11.3: #1-22 (all), 27-38
  • Section 11.2: #1, 3, 5, 13, 15, 18, 25, 27, 29, 48, 61, 65
  • Section 11.1: #10, 11, 15-18, 37
  • Due Feb 13: Read New York Times article "Divorce Rate: It's Not as High as You Think"
  • Due Feb 13: Attempt a Sudoku puzzle from a newspaper, book, or website.
  • Due Feb 6: Complete a "Su Doku" puzzle published in the Daily News (if you get stuck, don't start guessing!), Read Paul Graham's essay "What You'll Wish You'd Known", identify three things people believe but don't understand.
Upcoming assignments
  • Watch "Duck and Cover", and actual educational film for grade school kids from the 1950s.
  • Read Paul Graham's essay "Good and Bad Procrastination"
  • Read Richard Feynman's autobiography
  • Watch "A Beautiful Mind" or "Good Will Hunting" or "Proof"

This page created January 5, 2006, for a course at the City University of New York, College of Staten Island.

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