Discrete Math - Fall 2017

Math 2001, Section 001

Class meetings: MWF, 9- 9:50 p.m., ECCR 108
Course Instructor:
Dr. Faan Tone Liu, Dept. of Mathematics
Office: Math 322
Email: Faan.Tone.Liu@colorado.edu
Office hours: Monday 11am, Wednesday 10am, Thursday 10am
Course Syllabus:
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Classroom norms: TBD
Prerequisite: Successful completion of first-semester calculus (grade C- or better)
Course Text: We will use the textbook "Book of proof", by Richard Hammack. http://www.people.vcu.edu/~rhammack/BookOfProof/

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Course calendar and assignments:
Monday Wednesday Friday
Aug 28

Introduction, classroom norms, mystery algorithm

Aug 30

Homework 1 due at start of class today
Notes from Section 1.1
Set notation, subsets



Sept 1


Homework 2 due at start of class today
Power sets, union, intersection, difference
Notes from Section 1.1

Hints on how to read a math text


Sept 4

Labor Day
No class


Sept 6

Group Homework 1 due at start of class today
Group Work Report form
Set Builder cards
Set Builder card answers
Homework 3 due at start of class today
Set Practice Worksheet
Complements, Venn diagrams, practice

Sept 8

Homework 4 due at start of class today
Cartesian products, complete Chapter 1.


Sept 11

Homework 5 due at start of class today
Statements and open sentences

Sept 13

Group Homework 2 due at start of class today
Group Work Report form
latex tutorial - source code
latex tutorial - pdf output
Open the latex tutorial in Overleaf
LaTeX

Sept 15

Homework 6 due at start of class today
Conditional Practice worksheet
Conditional and Biconditional Statements, Truth Tables


Sept 18

Homework 7 due at start of class today
Truth Tables worksheet
Practice with Truth tables and logical equivalence


Sept 20

Homework 8 due at start of class today
Group Homework 3 due at start of class today
Group Work Report form
Quantifiers, and negating statements

Sept 22

Homework 9 due at start of class today
Review


Sept 25

Exam 1



Sept 27

Homework 10 due at start of class today
Negation worksheet Negation, Complete Chapter 2

Sept 29

Homework 11 due at start of class today
Chapter 4

Oct 2

Homework 12 due at start of class today
Chapter 4

Oct 4

Your Best Work HW 1 due at start of class today
Group Homework 4 due at start of class today
Group Work Report form
Chapter 4, start Chapter 5
Proof By Contrapositive


Oct 6

Homework 13 due at start of class today
Chapter 5

Oct 9

Homework 14 due at start of class today
Integers Mod n

Oct 11

Group Homework 5 due at start of class today
Group Work Report form
Worksheet on congruence mod n
Integers mod n
Oct 13

Homework 15 due at start of class today
Chapter 6
Oct 16

Your Best Work HW 2 due at start of class today
No daily homework due today, after all
Chapter 6
Oct 18

Group Homework 6 due at start of class today
Chapter 6
Oct 20

Exam 2

Oct 23

Homework 16 due at start of class today
Chapter 6
Oct 25

Midterm 2 corrections due at the start of class today
Homework 17 due at start of class today
Chapter 6
Oct 27

Homework 18 due at start of class today
Chapter 10
Oct 30

Homework 19 due at start of class today
Your Best Work HW 3 due at start of class today
Chapter 10, start Chapter 3
Nov 1

Homework 20 due at start of class today
Chapter 3
Nov 3

Your Best Work HW 4 due at start of class today
pdf of template for Your Best Work HW4
tex file of template Your Best Work HW4
Chapter 3
Nov 6

Homework 21 due at start of class today
Group Homework 7 due at start of class today
Chapter 3
Nov 8

Homework 22 due at start of class today
Chapter 3
Nov 10

Homework 23 due at start of class today
Chapter 3
Nov 13

Homework 24 due at start of class today
Strong induction (Chapter 10)
Nov 15

Exam 3

Nov 17

Strong induction (Chapter 10)
Nov 20 - Nov 24
Fall Break and Thanksgiving Break

Nov 27

Homework 25 due at start of class today
Strong induction (Chapter 10)
Nov 29

Homework 26 due at start of class today
Chapter 11
Dec 1

Homework 27 due at start of class today
Chapter 11
Dec 4

Homework 28 due at start of class today
Rough drafts of final project due Chapter 11
Dec 6

Chapter 12
Dec 8

Chapter 12
Dec 11

Chapter 12
Dec 13

Chapter 12
Dec 15

Dec 17 - Dec 22
Final exam week