The test on Wednesday, October 31 will be on chapter 3 and chapter 4 through section 4.5.

To study for the test you should:

Read the text carefully, stopping periodically to reflect on your understanding. Go back over portions as necessary. Be able to summarize each section. Be able to discuss the concepts presented in each section. Expect test problems that assess your comprehension of the assigned reading.

Study the Class Activities that we did in class. Ask yourself questions like: what is this activity about? what did we learn from this activity? If the class activity asks you to give an explanation, try to write a clear, logical explanation that fits the criteria described on page 9 of the text. There may be a test problem that asks you to give this (or a similar) explanation. But: don't just memorize explanations. Test questions may or may not be just like ones you have done. You will need to read the test problems carefully and address them specifically. On the test, it will not be adequate to simply write down something you have memorized.

Do all the assigned don't hand in homework and study the answers given in the text. Expect to see some test problems that are very similar to these problems, whether or not they were discussed in class.

Study the homework that was assigned to hand in. Keep in mind that you may have received a check on an assignment even though your work was not in a fully polished form and may even contain errors. If you took notes on discussions about the assignments, refer to them. Although many homework problems are longer than a test problem could be, some test problems may be related to the homework problems.

Reflect on the reading, the class activities, the exercises, and the problems as a whole. They are meant to work together to help you understand the concepts deeply. If you were the instructor, what questions would you ask to assess a deep understanding of the concepts?

Test problems will be very similar to problems we have worked on. Expect some short, factual problems, and some longer problems that ask for thorough explanations.