Math 143
Finite Mathematics
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Course Syllabus
Introduction and Grade Policies
Future Grade Predictor
Course Handouts (in order presented in our text, Rolf)
Slopes of lines
An interactive page
Solving systems of equations
Functional Notation; composite functions
Compound Interest and Annuities
An interactive Self-test
Row Operations; Pivoting
Identity Matrices; Identity Sub-matrix (ISM)
Gauss/Jordan Method; Row-reduced form
Gauss/Jordan example:
fewer equations than variables
Gauss/Jordan example:
fewer variables than equations
Matrix Products
Story Problems
Choose a topic
General strategies
Cost, Revenue, and Profit
Compound Interest and Annuities
Linear programming
;
no table info
Linear programming
;
info in table
Conditional Probability
Using Bayes Formula with 2-way split
Using Bayes Formula with 3-way-split
Game (Albert's Pattern)
Finding Matrix Inverses
The MATRIX INVERSE Method
for solving a system of equations
Graphing Inequalities
(description of methods)
Graphing Inequalities
(
Interactive self-test
)
SIMPLEX METHOD
:
(All topics, examples, and
Interactive Self-tests
)
Symbols and terms relating to sets
The Pivot Engine
An interactive matrix pivoter
(Big time saver)
Venn Diagrams
Making Venn Diagrams
An Interactive Self-test
(section 6.1)
PCs and Macs
An easier Interactive exercise
(section 6.2)
Country and Western Songs
A harder Interactive exercise
(section 6.2)
Counting the Size of Sets
An Interactive Self-test
(sections 6.3, 6.4, 6.5)
Chinese restaurant problem
Counting example (with solution) (section 6.5)
Terms and Phrases from Probability
(section 7.1)
Words with logical content in probability problems
Conditional Probability
(
An Interactive Experience
) (section 7.4)
The Diamond Merchant
Trees and conditional probabilities (Solved exercise) (section 7.4)
Bayes Rule (section 7.6)
The Formula
(section 7.6)
A smaller Interactive Example
(section 7.6)
A larger Interactive Example
(section 7.6)
Finding Logical content in technical English
(sections 7.4, 7.6)
Sample tests
Choose a test
Your Future Grade Goals
Sample test 1 (quiz)
Sample test 2 (hour exam)
Sample test 3 (quiz)
Sample test 4 (hour exam)
Sample test 5 (quiz)
Sample test 6 (an hour exam)
How do homework assignments affect grade
Web-based assignment 1 (due Sun 31 Jan 2016)
Web-based assignment 2 (due Sun 14 Feb 2016)
Web-based assignment 3 (due Sun 28 Feb 2016)
Web-based assignment 4 (due Sun 13 Mar 2016)
Web-based assignment 5 (due Sun 3 Apr 2016)
Web-based assignment 6x (due Sun 17 Apr 2016)
Web-based assignment 6 (due Sun 1 May 2016)
Spring 2016 Final Exam (a short test)
Music
Choose a song
Follow me (Uncle Cracker) (copyrighted song on flash drive)
Higher (Creed) (copyrighted song on flash drive)
Blue (Eiffel65) (YouTube)
I believe (Savage Garden) (copyrighted song on flash drive)
The Humming (Enya YouTube)
Only Time (Enya YouTube)
Dream - soft jazz (Korean language YouTube)
You'll never walk alone - Susan Boyle (YouTube)
Pachelbel canon (Funtwo rock version YouTube)
Pachelbel canon (classical guitar YouTube)
6 Elizabethan songs (guitar by Taso Comanescu YouTube)
Joaquin Rodrigo - concerto for guitar (YouTube)
Moonlight Sonata (Flash memory)
Peggy Sue (Buddy Holly 1957 YouTube)
Stand and Deliver (Adam+Ants YouTube)
Imagine (John Lennon YouTube)
Let it be (Beatles YouTube)
You're Beautiful (James Blunt YouTube)
Photograph (Ed Sheeran YouTube)
Someone like you (Adele YouTube)
Lonesome Fugitive - Sing me back home (Merle Haggard YouTube)
Cowboys and Angels (Dustin Lynch YouTube)
Whiter Shade of Pale (Procul Harem YouTube)
Conquest of Paradise (Vanfelis - movie YouTube)
My Heart will go on (Titanic - movie YouTube)
Learning to Fly (Pink Floyd YouTube)
Good Vibrations (Beach Boys YouTube)
Breakfast at Tiffany's (Deep Blue Something - YouTube)
She's so high (Tal Bachman - YouTube)
Bach air (YouTube)
Lookin' out my back door (Creedence YouTube)
Someday Never Comes (Creedence YouTube)
Down on the Corner (Creedence YouTube)
Meet Virginia (Train YouTube)
When I was a Boy (ELO YouTube)
Confusiuon (ELO YouTube)
Best of Times (Styx YouTube)
Eyes of the World (Grateful Dead YouTube)
Everything I do (Bryan Adams - YouTube)
The Times they are a-changin (Dylan YouTube)
St. Patrick's Day in Dublin pub (YouTube)
Requiem for Winter (YouTube)
O Danny Boy ( YouTube)
The Last Rose of Summer (Streich YouTube)
Bach fugue (Glenn Gould YouTube)
Bach air (guitar YouTube incomplete)
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik - Mozart (0:35-6:37 Viena Philharmonic YouTube)
Allow me to weep - Jaroussky (Handel aria YouTube)
Unchained Melody - Ghost - Righteous brothers (YouTube)
Stay Fredric Stay (Linda Ronstadt, Gilbert & Sullivan YouTube)
Spring River Flower Moon Night (classical Chinese YouTube)
Calculus video
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