Dr. Sherry Scarborough
Math 150 Functions, Trigonometry, and Linear Systems (Precalculus)

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Fall 2011 Class Materials and Information

• Math 150 Fall 2011 Week-In-Review plus PreCalc Chronicles

• Math 150 Fall 2011 Help Sessions

• Texas A&M Mathematics Online Homework

• Create Your Own Sample Math 150 Exam Questions

• Math 150 First Day Handout Fall 2011

• Math 150 Welcome

• Math 150 Contract

• Math 150 Course Listing

• PreCalculus Maplets - Must be on an TAMU Open Access Computer, then LogIn in the upper right corner, See "Precalculus: Albegra & Geometry" and "Precalculus: Trigonometry & 2D Vectors"

• Fantastic Interactive Illustration of the Trigonometric Graphs, Quadrants, and Special Angles

• How is College Different from High School

• Self Help-Math Study Skills

• TAMU Student Counseling Service Self Help Infosheets

• "Success at Math" Tips (Thanks to Jean Marie Linhart)

• Disassociation Form

• Fall 2011 Office Hours: Mondays 3 - 4pm, Tuesdays 1:30 – 3:15pm, Thursdays 1:30 – 3:15pm

• Fall 2011 SPECIAL OFFICE HOURS - Wednesday December 7 from 1 - 2pm

Math 150 Text Book

• Math 150 Text Chapter 1

• Math 150 Text Chapter 2

• Math 150 Text Chapter 3

• Math 150 Text Chapter 4

• Math 150 Text Chapter 5

• Math 150 Text Chapter 6

• Math 150 Text Chapter 7

• Math 150 Text Chapter 8

• Math 150 Text Chapter 9

Final Exam Information and Schedule

Final Exam Schedule

• Math 150 Sections 501 - 506 Friday December 9 at 3 - 5pm in Blocker 169

• Math 150 Sections 507 - 512 Monday December 12 at 10:30am-12:30 in ILSB 1105

Final Exam Supplies: Scantron Form 882E, Texas A&M Student ID, eraser, #2 pencil

Final Exam Procedures: Put turned-off cell phone, hat, sunglasses, and turned-off electronic devices in your backpack at front of classroom. No calculators allowed for Math 150 exams, including the final exam.

Fall 2011 Math 150 Instructors

• Hassan Moghbelli

• Sherry Scarborough

  • Math 150 Precalculus Course Coordinator and Week-In-Review Coordinator

  • Math 150 Precalculus Sections 501 - 506 MWF 10:20 - 11:10am Blocker 169 BLUE Sections; TA: Tina Mai

  • Math 150 Precalculus Sections 507 - 512 MWF 11:30am - 12:20pm ILSB 1105 GREEN Sections; TA: Jun Ren

Math 150 Special Topics on Streaming Videos

• How to Change a Repeating Decimal to a Quotient of Integers - Streaming Video

• Fraction Arithmetic (Section 1A) – NOW PREMIERING!!!

• Properties of Real Numbers - Streaming Video (Section 1A)

• Order of Operations - Streaming Video (Sections 1A & 1B)

• nth Root of a to the nth Power (When to Use Absolute Value) - Streaming Video (Section 1B)

• Rules of Exponents, Roots, and Radicals - Streaming Video (DTN) (Section 1B)

• Rationalizing Denominators - Streaming Video (Section 1B)

• Factor Out a Common Base to the Lowest Power - Streaming Video (Section 1B)

• Simplifying Rational Expressions - Streaming Video (DTN) (Section 1D)

• Complex Numbers - Streaming Video (Section 1E)

• Solving Absolute Value Equations - Streaming Video (DTN) (Section 2A)

• How to Solve a Quadratic Equation by Factoring, by Using the Quadratic Formula, and by Completing the Square - Streaming Video (Section 2A)

• How to Solve Quadratic-Like Equations - Streaming Video (Section 2A)

• Solving Inequalities with Sign Charts - Streaming Video (Sections 2B and 4A)

• Circles: Center, Radius, Domain, and Range - Streaming Video (Section 3A)

• Symmetries (x-axis, y-axis, origin), Even Functions, and Odd Functions - Streaming Video (Sections 3B & 4C)

• Difference Quotient - Streaming Video (DTN) (Section 4A)

• Find and Simplify the Average Rate of Change of a Function - Streaming Video (Section 4A)

• How to Solve Mixture Word-Problems - Streaming Video (Section 4B)

• How to Solve "Time Needed to Do a Job" Word-Problems - Streaming Video (Section 4B)

• Quadratic Functions - Streaming Video (Section 4D)

• Function Compositions and Their Domains - Streaming Video (DTN) (Sections 4E & 5D)

• De-Composing Functions - Streaming Video (DTN) (Section 4E)

• One-to-One Functions: Prove or Disprove - Streaming Video (DTN) (Section 4F)

• Inverse Functions and Their Domains - Streaming Video (DTN) (Section 4F, 5D, and 8F)

• Find the Inverse Function and its Domain (more examples) - Streaming Video (Sections 4F & 5D)

• Find the Polynomial Given Certain Zeros and Characteristics - Streaming Video

• Factoring or Finding Zeros of Polynomials - Streaming Video

• Rational Functions: Domain, Range, Intercepts, Holes, Asymptotes, Graphs - Streaming Video (DTN) (Section 5B)

• Finding Intercepts, Asymptotes and Graphs of Rational Functions (more examples) - Streaming Video (Section 5B)

• Solving Exponential Equations - Streaming Video (Sections 6A & 6B)

• Solving Logarithmic Equations - Streaming Video (Sections 6A & 6B)

• Solving Exponential Decay Word Problems - Streaming Video (Section 6B)

• Solving Systems of Equations and Systems of Inequalities - Streaming Video (Chapter 7)

• Solving Non-Linear Systems of Equations - Streaming Video (DTN) (Section 7B)

• Find the Values of the Trigonometric Functions Given Certain Information - Streaming Video (Section 8B)

• Finding Equations of Sine and Cosine Graphs - Streaming Video (Section 8C)

• Revolutions, Angular Speed, and Linear Speed - Streaming Video

• Proving Trigonometric Identities - Streaming Video (Section 8D)

• Simplifying Inverse Trigonometric Expressions - Streaming Video (Section 8F)

• Solve a Triangle Using Law of Sines and/or Law of Cosines - Streaming Video (Section 8G)

• Solving Trigonometric Equations - Streaming Video (Section 8H)

• Vector Operations - Streaming Video (Chapter 9: Problems 1 - 9 ONLY)

• Conics - Circles, Parabolas, Ellipses, and Hyperbolas - Streaming Video

Past Math 150 Exams

Note the Fall 2011 Exams will be posted about a week AFTER students have taken the exams! :)

• Scarborough's Math 150 Fall 2011 Exam 1 over Chapters 1 and 2

• Scarborough's Math 150 Exam 1 KEY Fall 2011 on Streaming Video

• Scarborough's Math 150 Fall 2011 Exam 2 over Chapters 3A - 5A

• Scarborough's Math 150 Exam 2 KEY Fall 2011 on Streaming Video

• Scarborough's Math 150 Fall 2011 Exam 3 over Chapters 5B - 8D

• Scarborough's Math 150 Exam 3 KEY Fall 2011 on Streaming Video

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  Scarborough's Math 150 Fall 2010 Exam 1 over Chapters 1 and 2

  • Scarborough's Math 150 Exam 1 KEY Fall 2010 on Streaming Video

  • Scarborough's Math 150 Fall 2010 Exam 2 over Chapters 3A - 5A

  • Scarborough's Math 150 Exam 2 KEY Fall 2010 on Streaming Video

  • Scarborough's Math 150 Fall 2010 Exam 3 over Chapters 5B - 8D

  • Scarborough's Math 150 Exam 3 KEY Fall 2010 on Streaming Video

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  Scarborough's Math 150 Spring 2010 Exam 1 over Chapters 1, 2, and the first part of 3A

  • Scarborough's Math 150 Exam 1 KEY Spring 2010

  • Scarborough's Math 150 Spring 2010 Exam 2 over Chapters 3A - 5A

  • Scarborough's Math 150 Exam 2 KEY Spring 2010

  • Scarborough's Math 150 Spring 2010 Exam 3 over Chapters 5B - 8B

  • Scarborough's Math 150 Exam 3 KEY Spring 2010

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  Scarborough's Math 150 Fall 2009 Exam 1 over Chapters 1, 2, and the first part of 3A

  • Scarborough's Math 150 Exam 1 KEY Fall 2009 on Streaming Video

  • Scarborough's Math 150 Fall 2009 Exam 2 over Chapters 3A - 5A

  • Scarborough's Math 150 Exam 2 KEY Fall 2009 on Streaming Video

  • Scarborough's Math 150 Fall 2009 Exam 3 over Chapters 5B - 8D

  • Scarborough's Math 150 Exam 3 KEY Fall 2009 on Streaming Video

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  Scarborough's Math 150 Spring 2009 Exam 1 over Chapters 1, 2, and 3

  Note that multiple-choice questions 5 and 6 material are no longer covered.

  • Scarborough's Math 150 Exam 1 KEY Spring 2009 on Streaming Video

  • Scarborough's Math 150 Spring 2009 Exam 2 over Chapters 4 and 5ab Find only vertical and horizontal asymptotes on workout problem #3 as we no longer cover slant asymptotes. The material on multiple-choice questions 7 and 9, and workout problems 7 and 8 is no longer covered.

  • Scarborough's Math 150 Exam 2 KEY Spring 2009 on Streaming Video

  • Scarborough's Math 150 Spring 2009 Practice Problems for Exam 3

  • Scarborough's Math 150 Spring 2009 Exam 3 over Chapters 5cd, 6 and 8

  • Scarborough's Math 150 Exam 3 KEY Spring 2009 on Streaming Video

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  Past Week-in-Reviews and Past Math 150 Web Pages

• Ben Aurispa's Fall 2008 Week-In-Review Problems, Answers, and Solutions

• Marcia Drost's Spring 2005 Week-In-Review Problems, Answers, and Solutions

• Ben Aurispa's Fall 2008 Math 150 Web Page

• Marcia Drost's Fall 2008 Math 150 Web Page

• Sandra Nite's Fall 2008 Math 150 Web Page

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