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Columbus State Community College

Mathematics for the Liberal Arts, Math 116

 

Course Description (from the University): A survey of modern mathematical topics relevant to everyday life, intended for students who are not majoring in the physical sciences.  This course applies critical thinking and problem solving skills to topics such as elementary graph theory, the mathematics of voting and apportionment, and probability.    Not open to students with credit for Math 130, Math 148, or above.

 

Syllabus -- in Word format

Homeworks
 

Important Dates
Exam I -- Wednesday, October 17th
Exam II -- Wednesday, November 14th
Final Exam --  Week of December 3 preliminary review guide/updated final review

 

see the syllabus for a more detailed calendar
 

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Math Adjunct Office # DH 431
My CSCC voicemail # 287-8647
My CSCC email: bmccall2@cscc.edu


In order to ensure that we will have a quiz over all/most of the material prior to taking the first exam, a quiz is being added to the schedule Oct 10.  That quiz will cover Chapter 5.  The regularly scheduled quiz on Oct 15th will be on Chapter 15.  The adjustment is necessary to compensate for not having class on Oct 8 (Mon).  Because this will bring our quiz total to 10 (rather than the previously scheduled 9), we will drop the lowest TWO (2) scores.

 


 

Homeworks/Suggested Exercises

Suggested Exercises:

Suggested HW Exercises (by Chapter)

1.1-1.3            1-25 odd

1.4-1.6   27-43 odd, 47, 55, 59, 63

2.1-2.3   1-15 odd, 19, 20, 52, 55

2.4-2.5   23-29 odd, 33-43 odd, 49, 51

4.1-4.2           1-15 odd, 52

4.3-4.4   19, 20, 21-31 odd, 57

4.5-4.6   33-39 odd, 42, 43-49 odd, 55

5.1-5.3   1-13 odd

5.4-5.6            15-39 odd, 53, 60

5.7         1-49 odd, 58                     

6.1-6.3   1-15 odd, 53, 55, 59, 61

6.4-6.5   17-35 odd

6.6-6.8   37-51 odd

7.1-7.2   1-15 odd, 51

7.3-7.5   19-31 odd, 32, 33, 45, 62, 64

10.1-10.2    1-17 odd

10.3 -10.4   19, 22, 25-28, 29-55 odd, 66

15.1-15.3   1-33 odd, 65, 67, 69, 82   

15.4-15.6   41-45 odd, 46, 47-59 odd, 60, 72-76

To be Graded:

1. Chapter 1: #1, 3, 6, 13, 16, 17, 20
2. Chapter 1: #27, 30, 35, 38, 43, 48; Chapter 5: #2, 5, 7, 9, 12, 17 + voting worksheet
3. Chapter 5: #23, 24, 27, 31, 36, 37, 72, 73, 41, 43; Chapter 15: #3, 6, 9, 11, 16, 17, 19, 23, 30, 32
4. Chapter 15: #39, 44, 49, 50, 53, 56 + probability worksheet
5. Chapter 15: #60, 61, 65, 70, 73
6. Chapter 2: #1, 4, 7, 10, 11, 13, 14, 17, 21, 24, 29
7. Chapter 6: #1, 6, 9, 11, 14, 16, 25, 33, 36
8. Chapter 6: #37, 41, 43, 47; Chapter 10: # 3, 7, 13, 17, 21, 25, 33, 35, 45, 51, 53 + graph theory worksheet
9. Chapter 4: #1, 4, 6, 11, 14, 16, 21, 27, 29, 32, 35, 40, 46, 47
10. Chapter 7: #2, 8, 9, 12, 17, 19, 21, 23, 27, 34, 35

Voting Worksheet, get a list of possible candidates from Politics1 (Chapter 1)
Graph Theory Worksheet (Chapter 6)
Probability Worksheet (Chapter 15)

 

Answer Keys

Quiz #1 -- key
Quiz #2 -- key
Quiz #3 -- key
Quiz #4 -- key
Quiz #5 -- key
Quiz #6 -- key
Quiz #7 -- key
Quiz #8 -- key
Quiz #9 -- key
Quiz #10

 

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Power Distribution Calculator
Counting - Combinations - Permutations

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