According to the UH Final Exam schedule, the Final Exam for this class will be Wednesday, May 8, 11-2 pm in CBB 118 (the usual classroom). Here is a review sheet. Here is another review sheet. Here are answers to the second review sheet. Here is one of Professor Gilbert Strang's final exams from MIT.
Here are some notes on determinants.
Exam 2 will take place Friday, March 29, 9-11 am in CBB 118. The exam will cover section 3.3, 4.1 - 4.6, 4.9, 5.1-5.3, 5.5, 6.1, 6.2. Here is a review sheet. Here is the review sheet with solutions.
Exam 1 took place Friday, February 22, 9-11. The average score was 56.9 and the sample standard deviation of the scores was 26.32. I subtracted 2 from the average to raise grades. The grade scale that resulted is:
A |
88-100 | B- |
62-68 | D+ |
36-41 |
A- |
82-87 | C+ |
55-61 | D |
29-35 |
B+ |
75-81 | C |
49-54 | D- |
23-28 |
B |
69-74 | C- |
42-48 | F |
≤ 22 |
Textbook: “Linear Algebra” fourth edition, by David C. Lay, Pearson, current publisher. Don't buy the fifth edition, we are not using it yet. This is not available at the UH bookstore. Try Pearson's online store, or Amazon. Reviews on the Kindle version are negative.
Answers to Quiz 9: FFFTF TTTFF TFTFTT TTFT FFTFF FTTFF TFF TFT
Answers to Quiz 10: p. 229: TFFFT FFFFT; p. 236: TFTFT FFTTT; p. 272: FTTTF FFTFT; p. 280: FTF; p. 286: FTFF FFTF. #41 and 42 both refer to #22d in the text and somone answered them differently, so these problems were not graded. p. 336: TTTFT TFTTT; p. 344: TTFFF TFTTT.
Answers to Quiz 11: TTFTT TTTFF FTT FTT TTFTT TFTFF TTFF TTFT.
The syllabus for the course is here. The homework assignments are here. Homework will be collected and graded weekly. There will also be online quizzes given at casa. Register at CASA soon.
Prerequisites: Credit for, or current enrollment in Math 1432.
Online video lectures are available here. I really like these lectures., but they don't align with our text very well.
There will be two hour exams during the semester.
Grading. For each exam, and for the semester totals of homework grades and of quiz grades, I will compute an average μ and standard deviation σ. If X is your score on exam one, and the average and standard deviation for exam one are μ1 and σ1, then your normalized score for exam one is:
z1 = (X-μ1)/σ1.
Your grade will be determined by a weighted average of normalized scores:
Grade = 0.19*(z1 + z2) + 0.38*zFinal + 0.16*zHomework Total + 0.08*zQuiz Total .
This means that each hour exam counts 19%, the Final exam counts 38%, the Homework Total counts 16%, and the Quiz total counts 8%.
The numerical result of this calculation will determine your grade as follows:
| z › 1.25 | 1.0 ‹ z ‹ 1.25 | .75 ‹ z ‹ 1.0 | .5 ‹ z ‹ .75 |
| A | A- | B+ | B |
| .25 ‹ z ‹ .5 | 0 ‹ z ‹ .25 | -.25 ‹ z ‹ 0 | -.5 ‹ z ‹ -.25 |
| B- | C+ | C | C- |
| -.75 ‹ z ‹ -.5 | -1.0 ‹ z ‹ -.75 | -1.25 ‹ z ‹ -1.0 | ‹ -1.25 |
| D+ | D | D- | F |
If your Final Exam normalized score is higher than your lowest hour exam normalized score, then I will replace the lowest hour exam normalized score with the normalized final exam score.