MATH 166 - Weekly Schedule

Textbook: see current textbook list

Note: This is a fall or spring schedule. In summer, this schedule is accelerated by a factor of 3 in order to accommodate a 5-week session.

Suggested Schedule

• Week 1
  • Sections L.1–L.2, 1.1
    Topics covered: logic, truth tables, sets
• Week 2
  • Sections 1.1–1.4
    Topics covered: number of elements in a set, sample spaces and events, basics of probability
• Week 3
  • Sections 1.4–1.6
    Topics covered: rules for probability, conditional probability, independent events
• Week 4
  • Section 1.7
    Review. Topics covered: Bayes' Theorem. Exam 1 (L.1–L.2, 1.1–1.7)
• Week 5
  • Sections 2.1–2.2
    Topics covered: multiplication principle, permutations, combinations
• Week 6
  • Sections 2.3–2.4, 3.1
    Topics covered: probability applications of counting principles, Bernoulli trials, random variables
• Week 7
  • Sections 3.1–3.3
    Topics covered: random variables and histograms, measures of central tendency, measures of spread
• Week 8
  
  • Section 3.4, Review. Topics covered: the normal distribution. Exam 2 (2.1–2.4, 3.1–3.4)
• Week 9
  • Sections F.1–F.3
    Topics covered: simple and compound interest, annuities, sinking funds
• Week 10
  • Section F.4, Intro to Systems, Sections 4.3–4.4
    Topics covered: amortizations, writing systems of linear equations, solving systems of linear equations with unique and non-unique solutions
• Week 11
  • Sections 4.4, 5.1–5.2
    Topics covered: systems of linear equations with non-unique solutions, matrices, matrix multiplication with applications
• Week 12
  • Section 5.3, Review
    Topics covered: inverse matrices. Exam 3 (F.1–F.4, 4.3–4.4, 5.1–5.3)
• Week 13
  • Sections M.1–M.3
    Topics covered: Markov processes, regular Markov processes, Absorbing Markov processes
• Week 14
  • Sections G.1–G.2
    Topics covered: game theory
• Week 15
  • Review