Jen Paulhus, Ph.D.

Precalculus

email: jpaulhus@mtholyoke.edu
Office Hours:Tuesdays 9:30-11:30 and Wednesdays 12:30-2
     or by appointment

Class Meeting: Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday 1:45-3:00 PM

Text: Precalculus: An Investigation of Functions, Lippman and Rasmussen, get it here!
Material Covered: Chapters 1-6

Syllabus

Content for each assessment

Homework Assignments    

Daily Topics

Class Date Section and Pages Word List Desmos Link
  Sept. 10 1.1 function, one-to-one,
  Sept. 11 1.2, 1.3 Vertical Line Test, Horizontal Line Test, domain, range Snowfall Graph
  Sept. 15 1.1-1.3 recap increasing, decreasing
  Sept. 17 1.3, 1.4 local max and min, concave up and down, inflection point, composition of functions
  Sept. 18 1.5 vertical and horizontal shift, vertical and horizontal reflection, vertical and horizontal stretch
  Sept. 22 1.4-1.5 recap composition of functions and graph shifts
  Sept. 24 1.6, 2.1, 1.2 even and odd functions, inverses, linear functions, piecewise function Inverses
  Sept. 25 2.2, 1.3 graphs of linear functions, average rate of change
  Sept. 29 1.6, 2.1 recap, 2.2 inverse functions, linear functions
  Oct. 1 2.3 modeling with linear functions, more piecewise functions
  Oct. 2 2.5 absolute value, inequalities
  Oct. 6 recap 2.5 absolute values, solving inequalities
  Oct. 8 3.1 polynomial functions: degree, leading term, leading coefficient
  Oct. 9 -- no class

Homework Assignments

Homework assignments are due on Gradescope by 1:30 PM on the date listed below.

Show your work on the homework. Answers with no work will receive zero points.

HW Due date Problems
# 1 Sept. 14 Homework 1
#2 Sept. 17 Homework 2
#3 Sept. 21 Homework 3
#4 Sept. 24 Homework 4
#5 Sept. 28 Homework 5
#6 Oct. 1 Homework 6
#7 Oct. 5 Homework 7
#8 Oct. 8 Homework 8

Assemssments

Assessments are most weeks on Tuesdays.

Date New Sections Review Sections
Sept. 22 1.1, 1.2 -
Sept. 29 1.3-1.5 1.2
Oct. 6 1.6, 2.1, 2.2 1.1, 1.3