Math 1030 (Sections 101 & 102) Homepage
News & Announcements
08/04 Final grades have been posted on AsULearn.
If you'd like to look over your final, I will keep them in my office
for at least a year. Feel free to stop by if you have any questions,
or just stop by to say "Hi".
Have a great (what remains of the) Summer!!
08/03 Partial Answer Key (.pdf) for Summer 2010's Final Exam.
Quiz #1's Answer Key (.xls)
Quiz #2's Answer Key (.xls)
Quiz #3's Answer Key (.xls)
Quiz #4's Answer Key (.pdf)
Quiz #5's Answer Key (.pdf)
Workshop #1 (.xls) and Answer Key (.xls)
Workshop #2 (.pdf) and Answer Key (.xls)
Workshop #3 (.pdf) and Answer Key (.xls)
Workshop #4 (.pdf) and Answer Key (.pdf)
Workshop #5 (.pdf) and Answer Key (.pdf)
Workshop #6 (.pdf) and Answer Key (.pdf)
Derivative practice problems and answer key
Integral practice worksheet and answer key
Wolfram Alpha Tips & Tricks
Tests and Answer Keys posted here.
Workshop #6 scores and Workshop average (with lowest score dropped) are
posted on AsULearn.
08/02 Test #3 and Answer Key posted here.
I also posted last Summer's final exam...no answer key...yet.
Test #3 grades are posted on asULearn.
08/01 Wolfram Alpha Tips & Tricks
Quiz #5 (.pdf) and Answer Key (.pdf)
Quiz #5 grades and Final Quiz averages (with lowest quiz score
dropped) are posted on asULearn.
07/29 Workshop #6 (.pdf) due Wednesday, August 3rd.
Workshop #5 (.pdf) and Answer Key (.pdf)
07/28 Workshop #3 (.pdf) and Answer Key (.xls)
Workshop #4 (.pdf) and Answer Key (.pdf)
Quiz #4 (.pdf) and Answer Key (.pdf)
07/27 Approximating Integrals: Right Hand Rule (.xls) and Simpson's Rule
07/26 Workshop #5 (.pdf) due Friday, July 29th.
Test #2 grades have been posted.
Test #2 and its answer key can be found here.
07/22 Workshop #4 (.pdf) due Tuesday, July 26th.
Test #2 is Monday. It will cover revenue, cost, profit functions
and marginal functions along with the limit definition of the
derivative and derivative rules. The first part of the test will be
done "by hand" (no computers) and the second portion of the exam
will be done in Excel.
Here are old tests.
Tests #2 for Summer 2009 and 2010 are relevant as well as Test #2
from Fall 2008 (except for problem #1 in part 1).
07/21 Excel examples from today and Quiz #3 Answer Key
Quiz #3 grades are posted on AsULearn.
07/20 Examples from today (a couple of limits, a difference quotient, and a large Revenue,
Cost, Profit example):
Examples from today.
I reworked (part of the) revenue, cost, profit example in Alpha. Here's how:
Alpha Example.
Derivatives Practice and Answer Key
07/19 Workshop #3 (.pdf) due Friday.
Workshop #2 (.pdf) and Answer Key (.xls)
07/15 Examples from today (Revenue, Cost, Profit, Marginal Functions, & Limits):
Examples from today.
07/14 Test #1 and Quiz #2 grades have been posted on asULearn.
You can find Test #1 and its answer key here.
Examples from today (Revenue, Cost, Profit and finishing Chapter 2):
Examples from today.
07/13 Examples from today (Quiz #2 answer key and supply/demand & market equilibria):
Examples from today.
Test #1 is tomorrow (Thursday).
You should know how to do the following...
Chapter 1:
*) Graph some data in Excel.
*) Know how to create a double-ended graph (add a secondary axis).
*) Create a piecewise function in Excel.
*) Calculate with functions in Excel.
*) Decide which type of curve best fits a set of data.
*) Find an equation for a trendline.
*) Use trendlines to predict values.
*) Use goal seek to see when an equation is equal to a given value.
*) Use goal seek to determine when two functions are equal.
*) Use a graph to decide which solution a particular guess will
lead to (when using goal seek).
Chapter 5:
*) Know how to compute simple interest.
*) Know how to use PV, FV, PMT, NPER, and RATE.
*) Set up an amortization table for a mortgage.
Chapter 2 (Sections 2.1 and 2.2):
*) Know how to find the equation of a line [Exactly].
*) Know how to find the equation of a line [in Excel].
*) Know how to "use" supply and demand functions.
*) Know how to find the Market Equilibrium.
Old tests can be found here.
Summer 2010 Test #1 covers the same material as tomorrow's test.
Summer 2009 Test #1 covers the same material as tomorrow's test.
Fall 2008 Test #1 covers Chapters 1 & 5
Fall 2008 Test #2 Part I. problem #1 covers sections 2.1 and 2.2
07/12 Workshop #2 due Tuesday, July 19th, 2011
Workshop #1 and Answer Key
Examples from today (more finance stuff):
Examples from today.
07/11 Quiz #1 grades have been posted on asULearn.
Examples from today (Quiz #1 Answer Key, more financial examples,
and amortization tables):
Examples from today.
07/08 Workshop #1 due Tuesday.
[Typo in problem #3 fixed. "... through August" now says
"... through October".]
[Bad typo in problem #4(b) fixed. "y = x^2 + 1/2" should
be "y = x^2 + 1/5".]
Examples from today (financial functions):
Examples from today.
07/07 Examples from today including double ended graphs, trendlines,
and goalseek:
Examples from today.
07/06 Examples from today including graphs of math formulas, and
piecewise defined functions:
Examples from today.
(Note: There are 2 tabs on this worksheet. Switch
between them by clicking on the "tabs" at
the bottom of the worksheet.)
Information about the Math help lab this summer:
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Math lab hours for Summer Session 2 will be from 2:00pm - 4:00pm, Mondays
through Thursdays in Walker 302. No Friday Math Lab hours will be held.
https://lap.appstate.edu/departmental-help-labs
Please be aware that the math lab tutors are there to help you
with math. They may or may not be able to help you with Excel.
Not all tutors have experience using spreasheet software.
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Math 1030 lab hours
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Hi all,
Contingent upon Alex's schedule, the lab will meet Monday through
Friday, 3:00pm to 4:30 pm, in Walker 307B, with Alex in the whole
time, and Peter only in on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
-Peter Simonson
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07/01 Syllabus, suggested homework, and schedule pages have been updated.
01/01 Course Data
MAT 1030 Section 101 Meets MTWRF 08:00am-10:10am 07/06-08/04 in WA 307B
MAT 1030 Section 102 Meets MTWRF 10:20am-12:30pm 07/06-08/04 in WA 307B
Syllabus, suggested homework and schedule pages
will be posted later...
Any questions about this class?
Send me an email at cookwj@appstate.edu