Week 1:

Thursday, August 19: first day of class

Week 2:

Due Tuesday, August 24: Read about all the course policies, including the grading scale and policy. Notice, in particular, that the cutoff for an A is 4.7 out of 5 points. Read chapter 2 through page 29. Do all the practice problems for sections 2.1 and 2.2 and check your answers. Hand in: problems 2 and 3 on page 30.

MATH 7020 students only: begin to brainstorm ideas for your project.

Due Thursday, August 26: Read chapter 2 through section 2.4. Do all the practice problems for sections 2.3 and 2.4 and check your answers. Hand in: problem 10 on page 45 and problems 8 and 16 on page 52.