MATH2800 Introduction to Discrete Structures
Sections 1-4.
Fall 2009
Instructor:
Teaching Assistant:
Raw Grades to date, on exams 1 and 2
and quizzes 1-7.
Scores are displayed in decreasing order of the aggregate score,
which is calculated as 45% for each exam and 10% for the quizzes.
(For the actual grading policy, see the
course outline.)
These grades will be adjusted to reflect documented absences
for illness.
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.
- Exam 3 will be in class on Friday, December 4.
You can bring one sheet of handwritten 8.5x11 notes; you can
write on both sides.
It will cover sections
7.1, 7.2, 7.5, 7.6, and 9.1-9.8.
It will include one question
from Homework 3.
Some review material:
- 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: