MATH2800 Introduction to Discrete Structures
Sections 1-4.
Fall 2009
Instructor:
Teaching Assistant:
Course outline.
Includes office hours, grading scheme, policy for makeup exams,
and other details.
Course schedule
including the dates of the quizzes and exams.
Homeworks:
The homeworks contain lists of the sections covered in the quizzes.
Exams:
As you would expect, no collaboration is permitted on the quizzes, exams or the
final exam.
- Solutions to Exam 2:
Version A,
Version B, and
Version C.
- Exam 2 will be in class on Tuesday, October 27.
You can bring one sheet of handwritten 8.5x11 notes; you can
write on both sides.
It will cover sections 5.1-5.5, 6.1-6.3, 2.4, and 4.3.
Some review material:
- Exam 2 from Fall 2008.
The mean on this exam was 80%,
and the high and low scores were 100% and 51%, respectively.
The
solutions are available;
you should work the exam before looking at the solutions!
Exam 2 in Fall 2008 only covered Chapter 5 and Section 6.1.
We will go over this exam in class on October 23.
- Exam 2 from Fall 2007.
The mean on this exam was 82%,
and the high and low scores were 100% and 35%, respectively.
The
solutions are available;
you should work the exam before looking at the solutions!
- Exam 2 from Spring 2007.
The mean on this exam was 68%,
and the high and low scores were 100% and 2% respectively.
The
solutions
are available;
you should work the exam before looking at the solutions!
- Review questions from
Prof Dave Schmidt.
- An Exam
2 from Fall 2005 with
solutions, from Xiaoyun Ji.
Note that question 2 covers material from Chapter 7, and
recurrence relations will not be covered on your exam 2.
- More practice problems
and their
solution
from
Xiaoyun Ji.
- The mean on exam 1 was 64% and the high and low scores were 100% and 20%.
The scores in the exam are listed
here.
Linghong is returning the exams in recitation.
- Solutions to Exam 1:
Version A,
Version B, and
Version C.
- Exam 1 will be in class on Tuesday, September 29.
You can bring one sheet of handwritten 8.5x11 notes; you can
write on both sides.
It will cover sections 1.1-1.7, 2.1, 2.2, 3.2, 3.4-3.7, and 4.1-4.2.
- Exam 1 from Fall 2008.
The mean on this exam was 76%
and the high and low scores were 100% and 41%, respectively.
We will go over this exam in class on Friday, September 25.
The
solutions
to this exam are available;
you should work the exam before looking at the solutions!
Also available are solutions to two other versions of the exam:
Version A and
Version B.
- Exam 1 from Fall 2007.
The mean on this exam was 72%
and the high and low scores were 100% and 32%, respectively.
The
solutions
to this exam are available;
you should work the exam before looking at the solutions!
- Exam 1 from Spring 2007
(pdf file). The mean on this exam was 64%,
and the high and low scores were 98% and 27% respectively.
The
solutions are available;
you should work the exam before looking at the solutions!
- Review questions from
Prof Dave Schmidt.
- An Exam
1 with partial solution from Spring 2006,
from Xiaoyun Ji.
- An Exam
1 from Fall 2005, from Xiaoyun Ji.
Notes:
Handwritten scanned copies of my notes from Spring 2007 (pdf files):
MathZone Companion Website:
The companion website to the text is at
http://www.mhhe.com/rosen
This site contains extra examples and demonstration applets, as well as other
material.
Other Resources: