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Class Date

Topics Covered

Homework Assignment

Week 1

 

 

Wednesday, January 22

Course Introduction; Syllabus Review

Section 1.3: Introduction to Logic

(Deductive Reasoning and Inductive Reasoning)

None

Friday, January 24

Section 1.3: Symbolic Logic

pg. 38: 5-9 (a-c for each problem)

     

Week 2

 

 

Monday, January 27

Section 1.3: Truth Tables
(Conjunctions and Disjunctions)

pg. 38-39: 11(a-e), 14, 15,16, 17

Wednesday, January 29

Section 1.3: DeMorgan's Law,
Logically Equivalent Statements

Handout Given in Class
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Friday, January 31

Section 1.5: Implications (The Conditional)

pg. 65-67: 4, 20

 

 

Week 3

 

 

Monday, February 3

Section 1.5: Implications (Continued) Converse, Inverse and Contrapositive

pg. 67: 25 (a and c only - and prove that the Implication and Contrapositive are logically equivalent with a truth table), 
26 (a, c), 27 (a, c)

Wednesday, February 5

Section 1.6: Validity of Arguments

pg. 76: 1, 2, 6, 9 (a)

Friday, February 7

Section 1.6: Validity of Arguments (Continued)

Handout Given in Class
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Week 4

 

 

Monday, February 10

OJ Simpson Trail and Logic

None

Wednesday, February 12

Class Canceled (Snow)

 

Friday, February 14

University Closed (Snow)

 

 

Week 5

 

 

Monday, February 17

Section 1.4: Predicates and Quantifiers

pg. 51-52: 5, 7, 8

Wednesday, February 19

Section 1.4: Quantifiers and Venn Diagrams

Handout Given in Class
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Friday, February 21

Review for Test #1

Practice Test #1 Problems Here
(Click HERE to Access Handout)

     

Week #6

 

 

Monday, February 24

Test #1

Wednesday, February 26

Return Test #1
Section 3.1: Introduction to Sets and Set Notation

Review Test #1

Friday, February 28

Section 3.1: Introduction to Sets and Set Notation
(Set Builder Notation, Unions, and Intersections)

pg. 193-195: 1, 4, 5, 6, 8, 12(a, c)

     

Week #7

 

 

Monday, March 3

Class Canceled (Snow)

    

Wednesday, March 5

Section 3.1: Cardinality and Venn Diagrams (Con't)

pg. 195-197: 15 (a, c),16 (a, c), 17 (a, c)    

Friday, March 7

Section 3.1: Cardinality and Venn Diagrams (Con't)

Handout Given in Class
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Week #8

 

 

Monday, March 17

Section 2.1: Introduction to Proofs

pg. 96: 1 (a, c, e, g), 2 (a-d), 5 (a, b)
Prove: "If n is even, then n squared is divisible by 4."

Wednesday, March 19

Section 2.1: Introduction to Proofs (Con't)

pg. 97: 9 (a-c)

Friday, March 21

Section 2.2: Indirect Proofs and Proving by Cases

Prove each statement:

1. If  is even, then n is even. (HINT: Use an indirect proof).

2. For any integer n,  is even.

     

Week #9

 

 

Monday, March 24

Section 2.2: Proving by Cases and Mod Notation

Prove: If n is an integer not divisible by 5,

then n has a square in the form either of 5k + 1 or 5k + 4 where k is also an integer

Wednesday, March 26

Review of Proofs and Proof Types

Handout of Proofs Given in Class
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Friday, March 28

Section 2.3: Proofs by Induction

Handout Given in Class
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Week #10

 

 

Monday, March 31

Section 2.3: Proofs by Induction (Con't.)

Handout Given in Class

(Click HERE to Access Handout)

Wednesday, April 2

Begin Review for Test #2 (Sets)

Practice Test #2 Problems Here
(Click HERE to Access Handout)

Friday, April 4

Finish Review for Test #2 (Proofs)

Practice Test #2 Proofs Given in Class

     

Week #11

 

 

Monday, April 7

Test #2

 

Wednesday, April 9

Section 7.1: Graph Theory
(Euler Graphs, Euler Paths, Hamilton Circuits, and Spanning Trees)

Review Test #2

Friday, April 11

Class Canceled

 
     

Week #12

 

 

Monday, April 14

Section 7.2: Graph Theory (Con’t): Hamilton Circuits, Spanning Trees, Minimum Spanning Trees 

Handout Given in Class
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 Wednesday, April 16

Section 5.2: The Counting Principle

pg. 395: 1, 2 (a, c), 3, 9, 11

 Friday, April 18

Section 6.1: Basic Probability

Pg. 446-447: 1 (a,c), 2 (a), 3 (a,c), 4 (a), 7 (a, c, e)

 

 

 

Week #13

 

 

Monday, April 21

Section 5.2: Permutations and Combinations

Handout Given in Class
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 Wednesday, April 23

Begin Review for Test #3

Practice Problems for Test #3 Passed Out in Class

 Friday, April 25

Finish Review for Test #3

 

 

 

 

Week #14

 

 

Monday, April 28

Test #3

 

 Wednesday, April 30

Review for Final Exam

 

Monday, May 5

Final Exam (12:30pm-2:30pm)