Mathematics for Liberal Arts

Math 0232 / 1332 Corequisite Model, Spring, 2020

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Sunday, May 25 – Happy Trails!!!!

I wanted to let you know that your averages as they show up in MyMathLab for both Math 0232 and Math 1332 are now final!  Please go take a look when you can.

Well, we have made it through the longest semester in Lone Star College history. It has been quite an adventure. I would never have guessed back in January that things would have turned out this way.  I believe we have made the best of it and I hope you feel like the course was worthwhile for you.  I can tell you for certain that I have greatly enjoyed working with each and every one of you.

For most of you, Math 1332 fulfills your math requirement for your degree program and you can now focus on courses in your major.  I hope that this class has given you some tools that you will find useful in life whatever your career choice may be and that, if nothing else, you now feel like math is more of a friend than an enemy!

Best of wishes to you all with all of your future plans and I hope you all have an awesome summer. Take care!

Dr. John Burghduff

RECORDINGS OF Q&A SESSIONS FOR TESTS
Session 1, Tuesday, May 19, 5:00 PM, focusing on Math 0232, Chapters 7 and 12
Session 2, Wednesday, May 20, 2:30 PM, focusing on Math 1332, Chapter 11

Tuesday, May 19

A little more information for the tests coming up this weekend.  Some of this you already know but some of this is new.

Math 0232:  Final Exam on Chapters 7 and 12
Math 1332:  Test 4 on Chapter 11

Time Window for Both Tests: Thursday, May 21 12:00 AM through Sunday, May 24 at 11:59 PM

Time Limit (applies to each test):  2 Hours (This was going to be 90 minutes. I haven’t made the tests any longer but, if these classes were still meeting face to face, the tests would have been given according to the college final exam schedule and that schedule gives 2 hour testing periods.  It seemed fair.)

Test Password (same for both tests):  Liberal Arts

2nd Q&A Session: Tomorrow (Wednesday) at 2:30 on WebEx

Please let me know if you have any questions and I hope you all do great!!!!!

Sunday, May 17

Thursday, May 14

Next week we will have our last tests in both Math 0232 and Math 1332. In Math 0232 we will have a Final Exam covering Chapters 7 and 12 and in Math 1332 we will have Test 4 covering Chapter 11. Both tests will be open for a four day window from Thursday, May 21 through Sunday, May 24 – a bit longer window so you can plan out your time.

I have just posted practice tests for both of these tests in MyMathLab. Watch email for optional online Q&A sessions for both tests coming next week.

Sunday, May 10

We are now starting Week 13. This is the next to the last week of the semester and it is the LAST week in which we’ll be covering new material.

As this week begins I am going to take a careful look at all of your answers on Test 3 in Math 1332. After a quick spot check here and there I can see that at least some of the questions MyMathLab counted wrong are off by just a few cents. I will give credit back for round off discrepancies. I’ll let you know when I get to each of your individual tests. In the mean time, the test is now available for review in your Gradebook if you’d like to see what you got right and wrong.

In Math 0232 this week we’ll be finishing our study of basic statistics by looking at Section 12.2, Measures of Central Tendency and Section 12.3, Measures of Dispersion. Both of these sections focus on looking at a collection of data and trying to make sense of it. Central Tendency has to do with identifying what the “typical” result in the “middle” of the data is. Dispersion has to do with how the data is spread out. The discussion question in 0232 for this week relates to making a judgment between several measures of central tendency to decide which one is best in a given circumstance. When you get to Section 12.3, you’ll notice that we’re only going to cover a small portion of that section. We are not going to be looking at the concept of Standard Deviation; we’ll leave that concept for a full blown Statistics class some day.

In Math 1332 we’re going to finish our study of counting techniques by looking at Combinations in Section 11.3. In the reading assignment for this section, I’ve posted a fairly extensive video I created that looks at all the counting techniques we’ve been learning: the Fundamental Counting Principle, Permutations and Combinations. Then, in Section 11.4 we’re going to take an introductory look at Probability – measuring how likely a given event is to occur. Probability will be the last topic we’ll study in Math 1332. The discussion question relates to the counting techniques.

Next week we won’t be covering anything new. Instead, I want to give you the time to get ready for the Math 0232 Final Exam on Chapters 7 and 12 and the Math 1332 Test 4 on Chapter 11 both of which will be given at the end of next week. I should have practice tests for both of these ready later this week.

As always, please let me know any time you have questions. I am glad to help. I’ll be in touch. All the best for a great week!

Wednesday, May 6

The password for Test 3 in Math 1332 on Chapter 8 is:

Money!

Recall that the test opens Friday, May 8 at 12:00 AM and closes Sunday, May 10 at 11:59 PM. During the test, you can have a copy of the Chapter 8 Math of Finance handout posted in MyMathLab under Class Handouts. Calculators are pretty much essential!!

Monday, May 4

Welcome to Week #12.  We’re moving along!!!

As you saw from a previous email, the BIG event for this week is Test 3 in Math 1332 covering Chapter 8 on Math of Finance. The dates are Friday, May 8 – Sunday, May 10.  Remember that you can print out the formula sheet for Chapter 8 in advance which is posted under Class Handouts in MyMathLab.  (Be sure to do that in advance.  If you try to open the window while you’re taking the test, the lock down feature will kick you out.)  Also, a friendly reminder that we are going to have an optional Q&A session on Wednesday from 2:30 – 3:30 to go over any questions you have getting ready for the test.  Questions from the Practice Test or any homework questions are welcome. For more information, check the post from Saturday, May 2 below.

Since we have a big test this week, we’re only going to cover one section of new material in each class.  In Math 1332 we’ll continue Chapter 11 on counting by looking at a counting technique called Permutations in Section 11.2. The discussion question for this week in Math 1332 asks you to think very carefully about two counting questions to see if you think they are really asking the same thing or something different. This is a lead-in to next week’s lessons.

In Math 0232 we’re starting a brief study of some basic concepts from statistics.  Lone Star has an entire course devoted to Statistics; this is just a quick survey to give you a taste of some key ideas. Section 12.1 covers sampling, frequency distributions and graphs of data.  In the discussion question for Math 0232 you’re going to see some examples of how some of the statistical graphs you see in every day life may be inaccurate or possibly misleading.  This exercise will help you learn how to be discerning when watching the news!

To finish up for today, I want to refer to a question from last week’s discussion.  I asked you to take a guess at why the term “function” was chosen. The truth of the matter is that, like a lot of things, the term just sort of appeared so no one really knows. The dating example might help. As ordered pairs, the men and the women they were dating can be written as:

{ (Joe,Linda), (Mark,Joy), (Mark, Sue), (Tim, Kay) }

So Mark is dating two people at the same time.  In general, that doesn’t “function” very well.  The key idea of a function is that you want it to be faithful.  When you pick a value of x you want to be confident that there will be one y that goes with it.  An another example to think about might be a vending machine. When you push the button that says Coke, you want to be sure you’re going to get a Coke – not sometimes a Coke and sometimes a Dr. Pepper.  Otherwise you would say that the machine doesn’t function right.  All of this is a bit of conjecture filling in the historical blanks so we don’t know this for sure but I think it might help make some sense out of the word function.

As the week goes by, feel free to contact me any time you have questions. Best of wishes and do great on the test!!!!

Saturday, May 2

Sunday, April 26

What you are going to learn this week in Math 1332 could some day save you more money than everything you paid in tuition and fees for the class.

Let me explain with a real life story.

A number of years ago, a friend of mine asked me to go car shopping with her. I don’t really know that much about cars so I didn’t want to go but she begged me to go because I knew about financing and could help her with that. So we went and visited a car dealership I shall not name here in our beautiful city. She found a car she liked and she and the salesman agreed on a price and she got an approval for a loan through the manufacturer’s finance company at a specified interest rate on a 5 year loan.

The salesman said he needed to go ask the manager what the payments would be. While he was gone, I quickly calculated the payments on the loan based on the sale price and interest they had agreed on and determined she would owe around $400 per month. In a minute, the salesman came back and announced to her that her payments would be about $650 per month. I argued with him that he had calculated the payments incorrectly and, after much back and forth, he agreed to go back to the manager and ask him to recalculate.

Many minutes later, the salesman came back with a sheet of paper folded down the middle and ceremoniously opened it up. On it, in huge red letters were the words “You win!” and a recalculated payment of $600 per month. I told my friend, “Come on, let’s get out of here” and we left, went to another dealership, found another car she liked and had the salesman ask about monthly payments. At this dealership the salesman’s quote and my calculation matched perfectly, she bought the car and lived happily ever after.

What bothered me the most is that, at the first dealership there was a huge sales floor with maybe a dozen customers making arrangements to buy cars at the same time my friend was. I figured it was highly likely that most of them had no idea how to calculate their loan payments for themselves and were probably being cheated right and left.

You see, I happened to know the formula for calculating the payment on a loan that you are about to learn this week in Section 8.6 in Math 1332. At the end of this week, you will know it, too, and no one will ever be able to take advantage of you when you need to take out a loan for something.

Section 8.6 in Math 1332 is simply called “Cars” and, when you read the eBook, you’ll see that it covers many topics relevant to buying and maintaining a car. Although I’d like you to read through the whole section to get a general idea of what is covered, I am going to have us focus all of our attention on the formula for calculating payments on a loan. You’ll see that all the videos in the reading assignment relate to this formula and all the homework questions relate to this formula as well. This is the LAST section in Chapter 8 so, later this week I’ll have a practice test for you on Chapter 8 to get ready for Test 3 in Math 1332 which will be available NEXT weekend (May 8 – May 10).

In addition to finishing Chapter 8, we’re going to look at one section of Chapter 11 about the Fundamental Counting Principle. Yes, after all these years, you are going to learn how to count. Actually, you’ll be looking at a procedure that will enable you to count all the elements of fairly complicated sets. This will eventually lead us to the concept of probability in a couple of weeks.

On the Math 0232 side of the house, congratulations on finishing your Midterm Exams! At this point, you can go to your Gradebook and select “review” next to the test to see exactly what you got right and what you missed. Please let me know if you have any questions. As far as new material, this week you’ll be looking at two sections of very traditional algebra material in Chapter 7 on functions and graphs. What we are really interested in is how to use these ideas to represent real world data and you’ll see that in Section 7.2.

Besides the reading and homework assignments in the two courses, there are discussion questions in both of them. It will be a busy week but I think you’ll see that what you are learning is really useful in every day life. As always, feel free to contact me any time by text or email if I can help you with anything you are learning.

Best of wishes for a great week!

Wednesday, April 22

Nothing new here but I wanted to send some reminders about the Math 0232 Midterm coming up.

Testing Window Begins: Friday, April 24 12:00 AM
Testing Window Ends: Sunday, April 26 11:59 PM

Access the test by selecting Assignments in MyMathLab like any other assignment.

Required password: Prime Rib

You have one attempt and a time limit of 90 minutes which should be plenty.

There are lock down features in place:

You cannot access other windows either within MyMathLab or outside of it. If you open up another window or if you close the test window, you will be locked out of the test and you will not be able to access any other assignments in MyMathLab until you contact me to discuss. Please make sure all other windows are closed and you don’t have any social media open that might generate a pop-up window.

Test questions will be very similar to the ones on the Practice Midterm but it will be shorter (28 questions). The content comes from Chapters 5 and 6 of the eBook.

When you finish your test, be sure to hit SUBMIT. You’ll see your grade immediately and you’ll actually be able to review your test to see what you got right and what you missed once the test deadline passes.

If you have any questions about getting ready for the test or about any of the mathematics involved, please be sure to contact me any time. I’m glad to help.

I hope you all do great!!!!!

Sunday, April 19
I hope you have had a great week so far as we get back into the swing of our class again. AND I hope you are all well and safe.
Today (Sunday, April 19) is our first deadline since our return from the break. As a reminder, the following is due by 11:59 PM tonight in the two classes:
Math 0232
1) Mock Test (The password was in last week’s email but, in case you missed it, it is BadBug19.)
2) Discussion Question for Week 9
3) Reading and Homework Assignments for Sections 6.2 (Part 2) and 6.3
Math 1332
1) Discussion Question for Week 9 (remember that each of the classes has its own discussion questions)
2) Reading and Homework Assignments for Sections 8.1 and 8.3
If you have any questions as you finish these assignments up, please let me know. I am glad to help.
Let me say a few words about the week coming up which is technically Week 10.
Math 0232
The big event for this week occurs in Math 0232. The Midterm Exam will be given towards the end of the week. It will be open in MyMathLab from Friday, April 24 through Sunday, April 26. Be sure to continue to work your way through the Practice Midterm to get a very good idea of what to expect. Questions on the Midterm will be very similar to the questions on the Practice Midterm and will be formatted the same way but the actual Midterm will be shorter. It has 28 questions. The password for the Midterm is:
Prime Rib
We’re not going to cover any new material in Math 0232 – getting ready for the test is enough – but there will be a discussion question for the week.
Math 1332
In Math 1332, we are going to continue to cover Chapter 8 on the Mathematics of Finance. 8.4 will talk about Compound Interest and 8.5 talks about Annuities. You will notice that there is a portion of the eBook in Section 8.5 on reading Stock Tables. This is just for your information. This topic is not included in the videos or the homework. As you read through these sections and watch the videos you will notice two things, I think.
1) You really have to do these calculations on a calculator. Among the videos in your reading assignments are some that I produced on how to use your TI-83 or TI-84 graphing calculator to work these problems. Please excuse the cinematography- I am learning!
2) There are a lot of formulas! I’m not going to ask you to memorize these formulas – only to know how to apply them in the appropriate settings. Look at the Class Handouts in MyMathLab for Math 1332 for a document called Chapter 8 – Math of Finance Formulas. You will be able to print this out and have it with you when you take Test 3 in Math 1332 in a couple of weeks. (No materials permitted for this week’s Math 0232 Midterm.)
There will also be a Discussion Question for the week in Math 1332.
So, all together, here is what is due by NEXT Sunday, April 26 by 11:59 PM
1) Math 0232 Discussion Question
2) Math 0232 Midterm Exam (open from April 24 – April 26)
3) Math 1332 Discussion Question
4) Math 1332 Reading and Homework for Sections 8.4 and 8.5
That’s where we are as we finish up our first week back and get ready for the next one. As you work on all this, please feel free to send me questions any time. I am glad to help. Have an awesome week.

Sunday, March 22
Just checking in to make sure everyone is doing OK. I hope everyone is healthy and staying home as much as possible.
We are still on track to resume as a completely online class beginning April 13.  I will have more information for you about how that will exactly work as the date gets closer.  If anyone is going to have trouble accessing a computer/tablet or wifi, please let me know as we will have to rely on those tools to keep going.
I wanted to let you know, too, that I have just finished cleaning up the Gradebook in MyMathLab. I had a few daily grades I had not yet posted as well as the grades for the Pencil and Paper Homework on Sections 3.4 and 3.5. (I posted an answer key to that assignment under Class Handouts.) Everything reflected in the Gradebook is now complete and accurate including your current overall averages. So be sure to take a look some time and let me know if you have any questions.
I’ll be back in touch with more information soon.

Wednesday, March 18
Hi everyone.  I hope you are all healthy and doing OK.
Hopefully, you all received the email I am posting below from the Lone Star College Chancellor, Dr. Steve Head.  As you will see, classes will not resume until Monday, April 13 and, to make up for the lost time, Spring Semester will now run through May 22.  (The only exception is if you are taking an online class that has already started. Those classes ONLY will begin again this coming Monday, March 23.)
Although it is possible that a decision will be made to the contrary, I am 99% certain that our class will reopen as an online class.  If so, we will run the class through MyMathLab with some enhancements and modifications.  This will not be the same as being together in person, unfortunately, and, since I don’t usually teach online, the class will not have all the bells and whistles that it would have had if I had been planning for it for a long time.  However, I will be very available to you online and I will do everything I can to help you master the remaining objectives of our course.
Since it will have been such a long time, over the next few days I’ll be scanning the tests you took before Spring Break and send those back to you using a document sharing feature in MyMathLab that we haven’t used before but I’ll explain it to you soon.
As the restart day gets closer, I will keep you more up to date on what to expect but, in the short run, please consider all of our deadlines to be postponed until further notice.  If you have any questions or concerns about this transition, please feel free to email me back or to text me in Remind.  I’ll be checking regularly.  I wish you all the best!

Dr. Burghduff

From: Office of the Chancellor <Chancellor@lonestar.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 3:10:32 PM
To: Office of the Chancellor <Chancellor@lonestar.edu>
Subject: Schedule

Lone Star College Students:

 

We know the last two weeks have been challenging for you. LSC remains committed to the health and safety of the entire LSC community and has been working hard to ensure you can return to your studies in a timely manner while keeping safety as a top priority. We appreciate your patience and understanding as we work in the best interest of our students, our employees and our community.

 

Lone Star College will be closing all of its facilities today, March 18^th, at 4:00 pm. The campuses will open to students on April 13^th when classes will resume. A final determination on which classes will move on line and which classes will remain in person has yet to be determined. We are working on a solution that will provide the least disruption to our students while protecting their health and ensuring their success.

 

Online classes that were in session prior to the break will resume as normal Monday, March 23^rd. All  other classes, including 8-week classes, will resume on April 13^th.

 

The dates below are based upon the information we currently have and are subject to change based upon the status of the global pandemic and the recommendations of our elected leaders and health care officials.

 

Below is a list of important dates:

 

Monday, March 23

• Online classes that started prior to Spring Break will resume.

 

Monday, March 23-April 6

• Faculty convert classes to online where feasible.
• Students will be notified about the status of their class-online or face to face- prior to April 10^th.
• Extensive cleaning of all facilities.

 

Monday, April 6-13

• Finalize plans for restart.

 

Monday, April 13

• All remaining classes resume.
• All Employees return to campus.
• All Eight-week classes begin.

 

Wednesday, April 15

• Fall Registration starts.

 

Monday, May 11

• Mini-semester starts-(online only).

 

Friday, May 22

• Spring Semester ends (original date as May 10).  Faculty completing classes before this date may submit grades
• Eight-week classes end.

 

Monday, June 1

• First Summer Term begins.

 

Other dates not referenced, including dates related to financial aid, payment, and application, will be modified in accordance with the new academic calendar. We are going to make sure every student has the opportunity to succeed.

 

Students are restricted from coming to campus until April 13^th. Faculty and staff should not schedule face to face meetings with students before April 13^th.

 

Please continue to monitor your Lone Star College email for detailed instructions on making the transition from face-to-face and hybrid classes to online only. Updated information will also be posted to: LoneStar.edu, Facebook.com/LoneStarCollege, Twitter.com/LoneStarCollege and LinkedIn.com/Lone-Star-College.

 

 

We have a great team of faculty and staff members who consistently put our students first. I am so proud of their efforts to keep our students on track to complete their studies, no matter the circumstances.

 

I urge all of you to continue to adhere to the guidelines for preventing the contraction and spread of COVID-19 established by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This includes, but is not limited to, frequent washing of hands, using alcohol-based hand sanitizer, practicing social distancing, and seeking immediate medical care if you experience any of the symptoms associated with COVID-19.

 

Steve Head

Chancellor

Sunday, March 15
I hope you have all had a great (first week) of Spring Break.
I wanted to let you know that I will be finishing up the grading on Math 1332 Test 2 late tonight and will be posting the grades in your Gradebook in MyMathLab.  I’ll send you a text when they are ready or first thing in the morning if it is getting very late.  I will also post copies of the answer keys to the test at the Test Information link in MyMathLab.  If it looks like we’re going to be closed more than a week I’ll scan your specific test paper and email it to you so you can see it.
With that in mind, let me tell you what I know about what is coming up in the next couple of weeks.  Since the coming week has been officially designated as an extension of Spring Break, I am extending the deadlines for the assignments that were supposed to be due this coming week.  They were not major assignments and both of them are in Math 0232:
Section 6.1 Homework – deadline extended from Monday, March 16 to Monday, March 23 at 11:59 PM
Section 6.2 Homework (Part 1) – deadline extended from Wednesday, March 18 to Wednesday, March 25 at 11:59 PM.
All Lone Star College classes are currently cancelled until Monday, March 23.
I don’t know what the future holds for our class after this coming week. One way or another we WILL find a way for you to learn the objectives of the rest of the course and to earn a grade.  My best hunch is that we may turn this into an online class for at least part of the rest of the semester.  This would be a significant change in how I had envisioned the class running but we will find a way to make that work if we need to.  I should have some better answers for you by Tuesday or Wednesday of this week.
For the forseeable future, I plan to communicate with you through four methods:
1) I will send text messages with announcements in brief including asking you to check one of the other methods below for more details.
2) I will post announcements to our class blog on my webpage, www.lonestar.edu/blogs/jburghduff; select Math for Liberal Arts.
3) I will email you copies of those announcements to the email address you used to register for MyMathLab.
4) I will email you copies of those announcements to your my.lonestar.edu email addresses.
This means you’ll be receiving the same information several ways but that will be good in case one of those ways doesn’t work.  Be sure to check for all four messages.
Until then, please stay safe. Wash your hands. Try not to touch your face.  Avoid large gatherings.  Maintain a “social distance” from others.  Watch for updates from official authorities like the mayor, the county judge, the governor, the CDC, etc.  Watch for news from Lone Star College.  Avoid listening to kooks at either extreme who either try to get you to panic or who tell you that everything is a hoax.  Don’t hoard toilet paper – that’s weird.
Best of wishes.

Wednesday, March 4
Math 1332 Test 2.  After the test we covered (most of) Section 6.2 on Solving Linear Equations in One Variable. After Spring Break we will come back to this section and look at some examples that have fractions and decimals in them.  The assignment for today is called Section 6.1 (Part 1) in Math 0232 and is due Wednesday, March 18.
No class next week. Have an awesome Spring Break.

Monday, March 2
Today we reviewed for Test 2 on Chapter 3 in Math 1332.  We also returned to Math 0232 and covered Section 6.1 on Algebraic Expressions and Factoring. The assignment for this section will be due Monday, March 16.

Wednesday, February 26
Today we covered Section 3.7 on Arguments. This is the last section and the culmination of everything we have learned about logic.  Rather than just looking at individual statements we explored how several statements (called premises) can lead to another statement (called the conclusion) making a comprehensive argument. Arguments can be proved using Truth Tables or by comparing to standard arguments. The assignment for today is due Wednesday, March 4 which is also the date of Test 2.  Monday we will review so be sure to look at the Practice Test in MyMathLab and bring lots of questions.

Monday, February 24
Today we finished Section 3.5 by looking at converses, inverses and contrapositives and we covered Section 3.6 which discusses negations of conditionals and DeMorgan’s Laws (negations of conjunctions and disjunctions).  The assignment for today is called Section 3.5 (Part 2) & 3.6 and is due Monday, March 2.

Wednesday, February 19
We are going to focus all of our attention on Math 1332 content for a few days with the goal of finishing Chapter 3 on time to be able to have Test 2 on the last day before Spring Break, Wednesday, March 4.  Today we covered Section 3.4 on Truth Tables for Conditionals and Biconditionals and we started Section 3.5 on Equivalent Statements. Monday we will look at some specific categories of equivalent statements which will finish up Section 3.5. The reading and homework assignments for today will be called Section 3.4 & 3.5 (Part 1).

Monday, February 17
In Math 0232 we studied powers of 10 and scientific notation from Section 5.6. The reading and homework assignments for this section will be labelled Section 5.6 (Part 2).  In Math 1332 we introduced the idea of a Truth Table and studied truth tables for the operations of negation, conjunction and disjunction.  This is covered in Section 3.3.  Assignments for both 0232 Section 5.6 (Part 2) and 1332 Section 3.3 are due next Monday, February 24.

Wednesday, February 12
Today we returned to splitting our day between Math 0232 and Math 1332.  In Math 0232 we started Section 5.6 on properties of exponents. The assignment is labelled Section 5.6 (Part 1).  In Math 1332, we continued our study of logic by looking at compound statements in Section 3.2.  Both of these assignments are due next Wednesday, February 19.

Monday, February 10
Math 1332 Test 1 – Chapter 2.  After the test we finished Section 3.1 by looking at quantified statements and their negations. The homework for this assignment, labelled Section 3.1 (Part 2) will be due next Monday, February 17.

Wednesday, February 5
We spent the first part of the class reviewing for Test 1 in Math 1332 which will cover Chapter 2 and is scheduled for Monday, February 10.  In the second part of class, we started Chapter 3 on logic.  We covered the first half of Section 3.1 on  the concepts of statements and their negations.  The assignment, labelled Section 3.1 (Part 1) will be due next Wednesday, February 12.

Monday, February 3
We spent all day today working on Math 0232, Section 5.3 on Rational Numbers.  The assignment for this section in MyMathLab will be due next Monday, February 10.  No new material today in Math 1332.  Note that a large portion of Wednesday will be spent reviewing for Test 1 in Math 1332.

Wednesday, January 29
In Math 0232 we covered Section 5.2 on Operations with Integers and Order of Operations.  In Math 1332 we covered Section 2.5 on using Venn Diagrams to Solve Survey Problems. The assignments for both of these sections in MyMathLab are due next Wednesday, February 5 by 11:59 PM.  In addition, I passed out a pencil and paper assignment on Venn Diagrams from Sections 2.3 and 2.4 which is also due Wednesday, February 5 by 11:59 PM.  I have posted a blank copy of this assignment under Course Handouts in the MyMathLab site for Math 1332.
Coming Attraction:  Test 1 in Math 1332 covering Chapter 2 is scheduled for Monday, February 10 (which is pushed back a day from what is in the syllabus.)  I have posted a practice test for Test 1 (with answer key) under Test Information in the Math 1332.  More information about the test to come!

Monday, January 27
In Math 0232 we covered the concepts of greatest common factor (aka greatest common divisor) and least common multiple. Shorthand: GCF or LCM The assignments for today’s lesson will be called Section 5.1 (part 3) in MyMathLab. In Math 1332 we learned about set operations and Venn Diagrams with three sets. The assignments for this lesson are associated with Section 2.4.  Both of these assignments are due next Monday, February 3 by 11:59 PM.

Wednesday, January 22
In Math 0232 we continued to work through Section 5.1 on Number Theory: Prime and Composite Numbers by talking about factoring natural numbers into their prime factorization.  There is a reading and a homework assignment in the MyMathLab site for Math 0232 entitled Section 5.1 (Part 2) that cover this concept.
In Math 1332 we worked on Section 2.3 on Venn Diagrams and Set Operations largely by working through a discovery learning exercise with buttons.  The answer key to that exercise is now posted in MyMathLab under Class Handouts and we’ll take another look at it Monday to make sure everyone is confident.  There is a (fairly extensive) reading assignment and a homework assignment for Section 2.3 in the MyMathLab site for Math 1332.
All of the homework assigned today for Math 0232 and Math 1332 will be due next Wednesday, January 29 by 11:59 PM.

Wednesday, January 15
Today is the first day on which we covered topics from both Math 0232 and Math 1332.  In Math 0232 we covered Section 5.1 (Part I) in which we learned tests for divisibility and the meaning of a prime number.  In the Class Handouts section of the Math 0232 MyMathLab site you will find a handout with all the divisibility rules we studied today.  There is a reading assignment and a homework assignment entitled Section 5.1 (Part I) in the Math 0232 MyMathLab.
In Math 1332 we covered Section 2.2 on Subsets. There are MyMathLab reading and homework assignments for this section in the Math 1332 MyMathLab site.  All of these assignments in both classes are due next Wednesday, January 22 by 11:59 PM.  Remember that the Math 1332 Section 2.1 homework is also due at that time.  Big day!
There will be no class Monday, January 20 – Martin Luther King Day.  Celebrate diversity and inclusion!

Monday, January 13
Welcome to Math for Liberal Arts, Corequisite Model! Visit this blog to see what we covered in both Math 0232 and Math 1332 on any given class day.
Today, we did a class introduction in Math 0232. Please visit all the links above to read the syllabi for both classes and to find out how to register for MyMathLab and Remind.
In Math 1332 we started Chapter 2 on Set Theory.  We covered Section 2.1  on Basic Set Concepts and the reading and homework for this section are now live in the MyMathLab class for Math 1332.   The due date is Wednesday, January 22 by 11:59 PM.  No assignment yet in the MyMathLab class for Math 0232.