Class Info

  • Date: Tuesday, 10/6/20, 4:05 – 5:45pm
  • Meeting Info: The class will meet live on zoom today (password is the same last time – send me an email if you need a reminder).

To-Do Before Class

Topics

  1. Chapter 4: Direct Proof (part 1)

Objectives

  • Identify and emulate basic proof structure and elements, including hypotheses, definitions, theorems, and conclusions.
  • Work with common mathematical definitions, including even, odd, divides, and more.

Activities

Meeting recording (password provided by email).

Lecture notes (handwritten notes from Zoom lecture):

Lesson-11_-Introduction-to-Proofs-Direct-ProofsDownload

To-Do After Class

This is our first assignment in which you will actually write proofs. It consists of written problems from Chapter 4, covering the material from today and Thursday 10/8.

NOTE: You also have a WeBWorK assignment and an OpenLab assignment due on Thursday, this week, assigned previously.

Homework due Tuesday 10/13: Chapter 4: 1, 6, 7, 15, 16
(Upload link)

Submitting written work (instructions)

  • Take a picture of each written page of your assignment, and combine the pictures into a single pdf document.
  • Give the document a name that will help me identify it, for example: “JRodriguez-Class1Homework.pdf”
  • Use this upload link to upload your pdf (this link connects to a Dropbox folder, but you do NOT need to have a Dropbox account to use it).
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