Math 1200: Problems, Conjectures and Proofs - Fall 2018/Winter 2019 - Section B - Zabrocki

Note there are two sections for this course. This page is for Section B which is held Mondays from 5:30pm-6:45pm in Life Sciences Building 107. Tutorials are Mondays from 7pm-7:50pm in Chemistry Building 122 (tutorial 01) Chemistry Building 129 (tutorial 02). Starting September 24, we will split the tutorials into 4 groups w, x, y, z and you should only attend every other week (schedule listed below).



Schedule (Mondays during the Fall and Winter term):

Date
Topic
Remarks
Sept 10
About the class, introductory problem
first assignment - due Sept 25
Sept 17
Telescoping sums, notes
Follow academic tutorial, first HW assignment online
Sept 24
Some sums, logic and language

Oct 1
direct proof and proof by contradiction

Oct 8
Reading week - no class

Oct 15
Discuss third assignment, quantifiers

Oct 22
exponents, logs and complex numbers

Oct 29
trig and complex numbers

Nov 5
roots of polynomials, roots of complex numbers

Nov 12
proof by induction

Nov 19
proof by induction

Nov 26
Practice for the midterm

Dec 3
Practice for the midterm?

Thursday, Dec 6
Midterm!
7-10pm, Location Aviva Centre
Jan 7
solution to midterm questions

Jan 14
integers, division and gcd

Jan 21
modulo arithmetic

Jan 28
snow day! we will have to make this up sometime

Feb 4
proofs involving modulo arithmetic, a pretty picture made with Sage

Feb 11
solving modular equations

Feb 18
Reading Week - no classes

Feb 25
combinatorial proofs, example

Mar 4
combinatorial proofs and summation notation

Mar 11
infinity

Mar 18
infinity

Mar 25
quantifiers

Apr 1
practice for final




Schedule (Tutorials Mondays during the Fall and Winter term):

Tutorial 01 is in Chemistry Building 122 on Mondays 7pm-7:50pm
Tutorial 02 is in Chemistry Building 129 on Mondays 7pm-7:50pm
Date
Topic
Remarks
Sept 10
No class- we will start the following week

Sept 17
second assignment - due Oct 7

Sept 24
Some sums and 2nd assignment
group w and y
Oct 1
A logic puzzle
group x and z
Oct 8
Reading week - no class

Oct 15
third assignment (due Oct 28)
group w and y
Oct 22
third assignment (due Oct 28)
group x and z
Oct 29
fourth assignment (due Nov 11)
group w and y
Nov 5
fourth assignment (due Nov 11)
group x and z
Nov 12
fifth assignment (due Nov 25)
group w and y
Nov 19
fifth assignment (due Nov 25)
group x and z
Nov 26
Practice for the midterm
group w and y
Dec 3
Practice for the midterm
group x and z
Jan 7
sixth assignment (Due Jan 20)
group w and y
Jan 14
sixth assignment (Due Jan 20)
group x and z
Jan 21
seventh assignment (Due Feb 10)
group w and y
Jan 28
snow day

Feb 4
seventh assignment (Due Feb 10)
group x and z
Feb 11
eighth assignment (due March 3)
group w and y
Feb 18
Reading Week - no classes

Feb 25
eighth assignment (due March 3)
group x and z
Mar 4
ninth assignment
group w and y
Mar 11
ninth assignment
group x and z
Mar 18
ninth assignment
group w and y
Mar 25
ninth assignment, final practice problems
group x and z
Apr 1

group w and y
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