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Math 142 Schedule
(including important deadlines, study guidelines, and exam descriptions)
Units: The course is divided into 9 units, as given in the table below. Study guidelines for completing each unit, along with detailed unit exam descriptions, are provided by clicking on the corresponding topic in the table below (some links may not be available yet).
This is a self-paced course, and for the most part you can proceed at your own pace. The "target" date listed for each unit in the table below is the recommended date for completion of each unit. This is designed to help you keep on track to complete the entire course by the end of the semester. However, each unit must be completed by the "deadline" date shown in the table below. If you have not taken the unit pretest and taken the proctored unit exam by this date, then you will receive 0 points that exam. Virtually no exceptions are granted for missing deadlines (see the deadline policy for details).
If you usually wait until the deadline dates to take the exams, you will probably do very poorly in the class. Try to work on the course every day on a regular basis, and plan to complete the units well before the deadline dates. That way you will not be caught with missing a deadline if you become ill or if an emergency arises.
There are also significant incentives for taking unit exams and pretests before the deadline date:
The proctored unit exams must be taken online in the presence of a designated proctor. See the proctor instructions for details.
Note that the class begins September 4 and ends December 20. Note also that the deadline for the first unit is not until Tuesday October 15, but the deadline for the second unit is just two days later, October 17. While you may begin working in the class as late as October 6, you are advised that the schedule will move very quickly if you wait that long. For best results, try to work according to the target dates as much as possible.
Note in addition that no provision is made in the schedule for Thankgiving break - the Unit 7 deadline is on the Saturday after Thanksging. Thus, if you or your proctor are planning a trip during that time, you may need to rearrange your study and exam schedule so that you don't miss that deadline.
Final Exams:
There will be two final exams, one on Trigonometry and one on Analytic
Geometry, as shown in the following table.
Study guidelines for each exam, along with detailed exam descriptions,
are provided by clicking on the corresponding exam in the table below. The final
exams are also proctored exams, but each exam can only be taken twice.
| Unit | Topics (click the links for Study Guidelines and Exam Descriptions) |
Textbook sections | Target date | Deadline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Proctor Registration |
Fri. Sept. 6 |
Fri. Oct. 11 |
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| Online Testing Practice |
Fri. Sept. 6 |
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1 |
Review of functions; circular functions and angles | 5.1-3 (no calculator) |
Tues. Sept. 10 |
Tues. Oct. 15 |
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2 |
Trigonometric functions, solving right triangles | 5.2-3 (calculator) & 5.4-5, plus supplementary material on circular motion |
Fri. Sept. 20 |
Thurs. Oct. 17 |
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3 |
Graphing trigonometric functions | 5.6-7 |
Tues. Oct. 1 |
Thurs. Oct. 24 |
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4 |
More graphing; inverse trigonometric functions | 5.8-9 |
Fri. Oct. 11 |
Thurs. Oct. 31 |
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5 |
Trigonometric identities | 6.1-4 |
Fri. Oct. 25 |
Fri. Nov. 8 |
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6 |
Trigonometric equations; law of sines, law of cosines | 6.5, 7.1-2 |
Fri. Nov. 8 |
Tues. Nov. 19 |
| 5.1-9, 6.1-5, 7.1-2, plus supplementary material on circular motion |
Tues. Nov. 12 |
Sun. Nov. 24 |
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7 |
Polar coordinates; complex numbers | 7.5-7 |
Fri. Nov. 22 |
*Sat. Nov. 30* |
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8 |
Conic sections: parabolas, ellipses, hyperbolas | 11.1-3 |
Tues. Dec. 3 |
Fri. Dec. 6 |
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9 |
Translation and rotation of axes, parametric equations | 11.4-5, plus supplementary material on rotation of axes |
Fri. Dec. 13 |
Fri. Dec. 13 |
| 7.5-7, 11.1-5, plus supplementary material on rotation of axes |
Fri. Dec. 23 |
Fri. Dec. 20 |
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