MAT 118, Mathematical Thinking, Fall 2013
Christopher Bishop
Office: 4-112 Mathematics Building
My Phone: (631)-632-8274
Dept. Office Phone: (631)-632-8290
Dept. FAX: (631)-632-7631
Online course evaluations will continue until Dec 9.
We appreciate your feedback on the course, text and instructors.
FINAL EXAM is 8:30pm-11:00pm, Wednesday, Dec 11, in Light
Engineering 102 (the usual lecture room).
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Email MAT 118 lecturer
(Prof. Bishop,lecture MWF 9:00-9:53 Lgt Engr Lab 102 )
Email MAT 118 TA
(Chandrika Sadanand, Section 1
Email MAT 118 TA
(James Mathews, Sections 2 and 3
Email all MAT 118 instructors
(Bishop, Mathews, Sadanand)
TEXT: Excursions in Modern Mathematics, by Peter Tannenbaum,
8th edition, Prentice Hall.
James Mathews office hours: Office 2-105 3pm-4pm Wed, MLC 4pm-6pm Wed
Chandrika Sadanand office hours: Physics D-101, 4-5pm Fri, MLC 10-11am Wed
and 4:20-5:20 Wed
If you don't have the 8th edition yet, the homework problems
are here for chapters:
1 ,
2 ,
3 ,
4 .
5 ,
6 .
7 .
Change in Lecture and Exam Schedule: Chapter 4 exam will be
moved one week later, from Monday, Oct 14, to Monday, Oct 21.
Revised Lecture Schedule, Homework, Exams, Office Hours
Sample questions for each exam will be available a few days
before the exam.
Results for exam 1: average = 19.21, median = 21
histogram of results
Results for exam 2: average = 16.9, median =18
histogram of results
Results for exam 3: average = 18.31, median =19
histogram of results
Results for exam 4: average = 18.77, median =19
histogram of results
Results for exam 5: average = 16.96 , median =17
histogram of results
Results for exam 6: average = 19.14 , median =20
histogram of results
Results for exam 7: average = 19.21 , median = 20
histogram of results
Sample questions for final: there will be 5 questions from
each section we covered before Chapter 16 and 10 questions
from Chapter 16.
I suggest you review by doing the
previous samples and Chapter exams (most questions will be
taken from, or similar to, chapter exam questions).
One of the MAT 118 students suggested this
website
as useful in explaining permutations, combinations and
counting. I pass his suggestion on to you, but I have
not looked at carefully enough to guarantee its correctness
or helpfulness.
Link to
history of mathematics
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FINAL EXAM is 8:30pm-11:00pm, Wednesday, Dec 11, in Light
Engineering 102 (the usual lecture room).