Quiz 1 will be in the usual classroom on Friday, January 28, during the last 20 or 25 minutes of the lecture hour. It will cover sections 1.1-1.3, plus something easy from 1.4. As on any exam, it is wise to start with the problems that you feel confident that you know how to do, before moving on to others. Also, most or all of the questions will have rather short solutions, if you know how to do them, so if you find yourself doing something lengthy on a problem, move on to others and come back later to it later if you have time.

Some of the questions will be similar to homework problems, others will involve items that we discussed in class. All will be related to matters that we discussed in class, so you need not prepare the material in the book that we did not discuss.

You will receive blank paper and a quiz. Please write your answers on the blank paper and hand it in, along with your quiz. Answers go on the blank paper, not on the quiz. You can give the answers in any order--- they don't need to appear in the same order as listed on the quiz.

On each quiz there will be 15 points possible. At the end of the semester, your five highest quiz grades will be added up, and the total multiplied by 2/3 to give your overall quiz score out of a possible 50.

Remember that no mechanical assistance or electronic device of any kind is to be used, other than a super-basic non-programmable non-graphing calculator (although that is not really necessary). You should write your solutions on the quiz paper, so all you will need is something to write with. If you want additional paper to write on, I will give you a sheet of blank paper.

I have taught Math 3113 three times since we went online at the turn of the millenium, and you can find the regular exams from those classes at the course web page, linked at course pages page. Of course, they were much longer than a quiz, but they may give you some idea of what sort of questions to expect.