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Class Date

Topics Covered

Homework Assignment

Week 1

 

 

Wednesday, January 20

Course Introduction; Syllabus Review

Section 1.3: Introduction to Logic

(Deductive Reasoning and Inductive Reasoning)

None

Friday, January 22

Class Canceled (Snow)

None

     

Week #2

   

Monday, January 25

Section 1.3: Deductive Reasoning and Inductive Reasoning

Introduction to Symbolic Logic

None

Wednesday, January 27

Section 1.3: Symbolic Logic

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

Friday, January 29

Section 1.3: Truth Tables
(Conjunctions and Disjunctions)

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

     

Week #3

   

Monday, February 1

Section 1.3: DeMorgan's Law,
Logically Equivalent Statements

Handout Given in Class
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Wednesday, February 3

Section 1.5: Implications (The Conditional)

pg. 65-67: 4, 7, 20

Friday, February 5

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)

     

Week #4

   

Monday, February 8

Section 1.6: Validity of Arguments

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

Wednesday, February 10

Section 1.6: Validity of Arguments (Continued)

Handout Given in Class
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Friday, February 12

OJ Simpson Trail and Logic

Have a Great Weekend!

     

Week #5

   

Monday, February 15

Class Canceled (Snow)

None

Wednesday, February 17

Section 1.4: Predicates and Quantifiers

pg. 51-52: 5, 7, 8

Friday, February 19

Section 1.4: Quantifiers and Venn Diagrams

Handout Given in Class
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Week #6

   

Monday, February 22

Begin Review for Test #1

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

Wednesday, February 24

Finish Review for Test #1

pg. 51-52: 5, 7, 8

Friday, February 26

Test #1 (Logic-Chapter 1)

 
     

Week #7

   

Monday, February 29

Class Cancelled (The Donald)

 

None

 

Wednesday, March 2

Return Test #1

Education Discussion

 
     

Week #8

   

Monday, March 14

Section 3.1: Introduction to Sets and Set Notation

None

Wednesday, March 16

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)

Friday, March 18

Section 3.1: Cardinality of Sets and Venn Diagrams

Handout Given in Class
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Week #9

   

Monday, March 21

Section 2.1: Introduction to Proofs

pg. 96: 1 (a, c, e, g), 2 (a-d), 5 (a, b)
Prove: " The sum of any two even integers is always even."

Wednesday, March 23

Section 2.1: Introduction to Proofs (Con't)

pg. 97: 9 (a-c)

Friday, March 25

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 #10

   

Monday, March 28

Section 2.2: Proving by Cases and Mod Notation

Handout Given in Class
Wednesday, March 30

Review of All Proofs

Handout Given in Class

Friday, April 1

Section 2.3: Introduction to Proofs by Induction

None
     

Week #11

   

Monday, April 4

Section 2.3: Proofs by Induction (Continued)

Handout Given in Class

Practice Test #2 Review Given in Class

Wednesday, April 6

Finish Review for Test #2

Review Practice Test #2

Friday, April 8

Test #2 (Proofs-Chapter 2 and Set Operations-Chapter 3)

 
     

Week #12

   

Monday, April 11

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

Review Test #2

Wednesday, April 13

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

Handout Given in Class
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 Friday, April 15

Section 5.2: The Counting Principle

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

     

Week #13

   

Monday, April 18

Section 5.2: Permutations and Combinations

Handout Given in Class
(Click HERE to Access Handout) 

 Wednesday, April 20

Section 6.1: Basic Probability

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

 Friday, April 22

Review for Test #3

 
     

Week #14

   

Monday, April 25

Test #3

 

Wednesday, April 27

Return Test #3

Begin Review for Final Exam

(Review of Tests 1 and 3)

 

 

Friday, April 29

Finish Review for Final Exam

(Review of Test #2)

 
     

Monday, May 2

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

Cumulative Final Exam