640:130:115 PreCalculus College Mathematics
Summer 2004

·Textbook: College Algebra and Trigonometry, Second Edition by John Durbin, John Wiley and Sons, Inc. ISBN 0-471-38219-1

 ·Class meetings: MTWTh 8:00-10:40AM, Room ATG 206 6/1/04-6/24/04

·Professor:

• Ivy Tran, ngantran@camden.rutgers.edu
• Website http://crab.rutgers.edu/~ngantran
• Phone: 225- 6288 (prefer email)

·Office hours:

• M-W 1:30-2:30PM.
• Room BSB 415

·Course description:

• This is a one-semester course designed to prepare students for the three-semester Unified Calculus sequence.
• Topics covered in this course are Basic Algebra, Equations and Inequalities, Graphs and Functions (including: Polynomial and Rational, and Exponential and Logarithmic Functions), Trigonometric Functions (including: Identities and Formulas, Graphs, and Inverse Functions), and Systems of Linear Equations.
• We will cover Chapter 1-6, Section 50 and some of Chapter 7,9, and 10.

·Evaluation Criteria (Grading):

            Attendance: 10%          Assignments: 20%

          2 Tests:       40%   Final:            30%

• NOTE: It's important that you DO attend class regularly and hand in your assignments. Homework assignments are expected to be done individually. Discussions about the ideas of an assignment and about general information with others  is encouraged; but the actual writing should be done completely independently. You should explain and present your work  in your own words of how you understand the problems. Copying (or jointly writing) large portions of an assignment is considered cheating. Test or Exam materials are based on homework problems and topics covered during my lectures.