Please CLOSE YOUR LAPTOPS, and turn off and put away your cell phones, and get out your note- taking materials.

Two evaluation surveys – Please take time to do both! You should have received two separate survey requests: One was from Professor Schmidt (via Pearson) – This one is an evaluation of the Math 010/110 Teaching and Learning Center structure. This will help us evaluate our course setup, software, tutor lab, TAs, and online grading/assignments/learning aids. The other was from Dr. Chris Bendel, MSCS dept. chair -- This one is an evaluation of the teacher of your Math 010 or 110 class section. This will give feedback to the department and to your own teacher about how you rate the effectiveness of instruction in your particular class section. Your feedback on both of these surveys will be very helpful to us in evaluating and improving our teaching methods and the Math TLC program – THANK YOU!!!

Schedule for Math TLC Open Lab in Room 203: Last week of classes: Monday (8AM – 7:30 PM) Tuesday (8 AM – 6:00 PM) Closing Early! Finals week: Lab opens at 8 a.m. Wednesday-Monday Lab closes at – 8 p.m. on Wednesday – 6 p.m. on Thursday – 6 p.m. on Friday – 2 p.m. on Monday – CLOSED After Monday Full schedule with staffing for open labs is posted on bulletin boards in the classroom and in the open lab, and online at

Make sure you know the day and time of the final exam for this section of Math 110: Day: ______ Date:______ Time: ______ to _______ All Math 110 finals will be given in 214 Final exam schedules for all sections are posted on the bulletin board and in your course syllabus and online at the Math TLC web site (the link is available at your MyMathLab course home page).

Wednesday 12/16Thursday 12/17Friday 12/18Monday 12/21 Tuesday 12/22 8:00 to 10:00 Scheduled Final in 214: LAB CLOSED Neiderhauser 8: Lee 10: DKL MW 12: Lee 2:30 10:00 to 12:00 Scheduled Final in 245: Corne TTh 2:30 12:00 to 2:00 Scheduled Final in 214: Lee 3: DKL MW 9: Schmidt 11: Thielman 1:25 2:00 to 4:00 Scheduled Final in 214: LAB CLOSED Mayer TTh 9:05 4:00 to 6:00 Scheduled Final in 214: Hulett 4:40 6:00 to 8:00 Scheduled Final in 214: LAB CLOSED Hulett 5:45

Math 110 Final Exam: Comprehensive – covers the whole semester Worth 200 points (20% of course grade) 45 questions Test period is one hour and 50 minutes Practice Final is worth 10 points and also has 45 questions and unlimited tries. Your best score on the practice final will also earn up to 20 extra credit points on the final. The practice final is due at the scheduled start time of this section’s final exam. IMPORTANT NOTE!!! To get access to the practice final, you must have submitted the final exam review homework assignment and have scored at least 80%.

Final Exam Review Materials: There is a review homework assignment. This is worth 10 points, vs. the usual homework assignment of 4 points. Chapters 1, 2, 3 Chapters 4, 5, 8 Chapters 6, 7, 10, 11 Due Wednesday Dec 16 th at 8 a.m. Practice Final Exam NOTE: You must get at least 80% on the Final Exam Review HW before you can start the Practice final. Due at the start time of your scheduled final exam period.

More info about the Practice Final: The practice final has 45 questions, as does the regular final exam. The questions will NOT be exactly the same as those on the regular final, but they will be similar in content and are distributed across sections the same way as on the regular final. Each time you take the practice final you will get a different set of questions. EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITY: Your highest score will earn you that percentage of 20 extra credit points on the final, so it will pay off if you can find the time to take it more than once. You CAN stop the time clock on your practice final by closing the window without submitting the test. You can then come back and finish it later, and any answers you’ve already entered will be saved. REMINDER: You must get at least 80% on the Final Exam Review HW assignment before you can start the practice final. Completing that HW assignment to 100% will prepare you much better for the final, however… And it will get you the full 10 HW points, so you’ll have more of a cushion going into the final exam.

Final Exam Review

Part 1 of the Final Exam Review covers: -Chapter 1 (Operations on real numbers) -Chapter 2 (Linear equations & inequalities) -and the first few sections of Chapter 3 (Graphs of lines, slopes, intercepts) Make sure you look over your graded worksheet from TEST 1 as part of your preparation for the final exam.

Teachers: Go over problems that students in your section need work on, especially the word problems from Chapter 2 and any problems they had a tough time with on Test 1 as determined by your item analysis. I’ve attached review slides on the subsets of the real number system, which almost all students will need to be reminded about.

Sets of numbers: Natural (counting) numbers : N = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6...} Whole numbers : W = {0, 1, 2, 3, 4...} Integers : Z = {... -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3...}

More Sets of numbers: Rational numbers : the set (Q) of all numbers that can be expressed as a quotient of integers, with denominator  0 Irrational numbers : the set (I) of all numbers that can NOT be expressed as a quotient of integers Real numbers : the set (R) of all rational and irrational numbers combined NOTE: Q is a subset of R I is a subset of R but Q and I have NO members in common

Final Exam Review continues: -Chapter 4 (Systems of linear equations) -Chapter 5 (Exponents and polynomials) -Chapter 8 (Graphs of nonlinear functions) Make sure you look over your graded worksheet from TEST 2 as part of your preparation for the final exam.

Teachers: Go over problems that students in your section need work on, especially the word problems from Chapters 3 and 4, and rules of exponents (especially negative exponents and scientific notation.).

-Chapter 6 (Factoring polynomials) -Section 7.1 (Rational expressions) -Chapter 10 (Working with radicals) -Sections 11.2 and 11.5 (Quadratic formula) Make sure you look over your graded worksheets from TEST 3 and TEST 4 as part of your preparation for the final exam.

Teachers: Go over problems that students in your section need work on, especially rational expression problems, simplifying radicals, and using the determinant of the quadratic formula to find the number and kinds of solutions. ESPECIALLY take time to go over Test 4 problems that your students didn’t do well on (use Item analysis to determine what to cover.)

Math Teaching and Learning Center and Open Lab Survey – Your feedback on this survey will be very helpful to us in evaluating and improving the Math TLC program. THANK YOU!!! LINK: (You can also access through MyMathLab “Announcements” button if you didn’t save the .) If you haven’t had time to do this one yet, please take time to do it now!

You should now open your laptop and work on Final Exam Review HW. This assignment is due Wednesday Dec. 16 th at 8 a.m. and you need to score at least 80% to get access the practice final exam.