MAT 305 Assignments

Highlighted assignments are due soon.

Due Date	Assignments
5 May	Read Chapter 8 (“Repeating yourself indefinitely”) Turn in pp. 188-192 T/F 1-10; MC 1-10; SA 1, 3; Prog 3 (should refer to “Short Answer #3”), 5
3 May	Read Chapter 7 (“Decision making”) Turn in pp. 171-175 T/F 1-10; MC 1-11; SA 3, 4; Prog 4, 8
26 Apr	p. 283, “The geometry of radical roots”
21 Apr	Read Chapter 6 (“Solving equations”) Turn in pp. 151-153 T/F 1-10, MC 1-10, Prog 1, 6
7 Apr	p. 258, “Various kinds of plots” (this is part of Test 1!)
Material for Test 1, from here down
29 Mar	Read Chapter 5 (“Repeating yourself definitely with collections”) Turn in pp. 126-132 T/F 1-10, MC 1-10, SA 2, 5 (part (b) has a typo: “after each pass”), 6, Prog 4, 5 (the wording isn’t great: the point is that the program should accept as input a number \(n\) and return a truncated Taylor series with \(n\) terms), 8, 12
10 Mar	Turn in p. 103 Prog 2
8 Mar	p. 282, “Properties of finite rings”
6 Mar	Read Chapter 4 (“Writing your own functions”) Turn in pp. 101-104 T/F 1-15, MC 1-10, SA 2, Prog 1, 6
22 Feb	Read Chapter 3 (“Pretty (and not-so-pretty) pictures”) Turn in pp. 75-78 T/F 1-10, MC 1-10, SA 1, Prog 1, 3, 4
17 Feb	p. 261, “An important difference quotient”
3 Feb	Read Chapter 2 (“Basic computations”) Turn in pp. 46-50 T/F 1-15, MC 1-15, SA 4, 5
25 Jan	Read Chapter 1 (“Background”) Turn in pp. 23-24 T/F 1-10, MC 1-10 Read and think about p. 24 SA 1-5 (but no need to turn it in)
ASAP	None yet… well, except to sign up for a SageMathCloud account!