MATH 300 CALENDAR
SPRING 2012


This calendar for MATH 300 shows what topics will be covered each class day and which homework problems are due. It will be updated often, though it should always be an accurate reflection of the next two weeks.
  Tuesday Thursday
Jan. 17
§ 1.1: Sets

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§ 1.2, 1.3: Cartesian products, subsets

Assignment due:
§1.1: 2, 10, 14, 20, 26, 30, 36, 50
24
§ 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7: Set operations

Assignment due:
§1.2: 2, 4, 12, 20;
§1.3: 6, 10, 12, 14.
26
§ 1.7, 1.8, 2.1: Collections of sets, Statements
Assignment due:
§1.4: 2, 8, 10, 14, 18;
§1.5: 2, 4, 8.
Feb. 31
§ 2.1, 2.2, 2.3: Statements; And, or, not, if
Assignment due:
§1.6: 2, 6;
§1.7: 4, 8;
§1.8: 2, 4, 6, 8.
2
§ 2.4, 2.5, 2.6: Biconditional; Truth tables, Logical equivalence
Assignment due:
§2.1: 4, 6, 8, 10;
§2.2: 2, 4, 8, 10.
7
§ 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 2.10, 2.11: Quantifiers, Translation, Negation
Assignment due:
§2.3: 2, 4, 6, 10;
§2.4: 2, 4;
§2.5: 8, 10.
9
§ 3.1, 3.2: Lists, factorials
Assignment due:
§2.6: 2, 8;
§2.7: 2, 6;
§2.9: 2, 6;
§2.10: 2, 4.
14
§ 3.3. 3.4: Counting subsets, Binomial Theorem

Assignment due:
§3.1: 4, 6, 10;
§3.2: 4, 8.
16
§ 3.5: Inclusion/Exclusion; Chapter 4: Direct Proof
Assignment due:
§3.3: 4, 6, 8, 12;
§3.4: 4, 8.
21
Chapter 4: Direct proof
23
Chapter 5: Contrapositive proof
Assignment due:
§3.5: 8;
§4: 2, 6, 14.
March 28
Chapter 6: Proof by contradiction

Assignment due:
§5: 8, 12, 20.
1
Chapter 7: If-and-only-if proofs; existence proofs
Assignment due:
§6: 2, 8, 10.
6

TEST #1
(On chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
8
Chapter 8: Proofs involving sets
13
SPRING BREAK

15
SPRING BREAK
19
Chapter 9: Disproof

22
Chapter 10: Induction
Assignment due:
§8: 4, 20, 28;
§9: 2, 6, 30.
27
Chapter 10: Strong Induction, proof by minimum counterexample
29
§ 11.0, 11.1: Relations and their properties
Assignment due:
§10: 2, 10, 32
April 3
§ 11.2, 11.3, 11.4: Equivalence relations and partitions; Integers modulo n
Assignment due:
§11.0: 2, 4, 6, 8
§11.1
: 2, 10, 12, 14
5
§11.5, 12.1: Relations between sets; Functions
Assignment due:
§11.2: 2, 6, 8
10
TEST #2 (On chapters 7, 8, 9, 10, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2)
12
§12,2: Injective and surjective functions
17
§12.3, 12.4: The pigeonhole principle; Composition of functions;
Assignment due:
§11.3: 2
§11.4: 4, 6
§12.1: 2, 4, 6, 8, 12
19
§ 12.5: Inverse functions
Assignment due:
§12.2: 4, 6, 10
§12.4: 4, 8, 10
24
§12.6, 13.1: Image and preimage; Cardinality
26
§ 13.2: Countable and uncountable sets
Assignment due:
§12.5: 2, 6
§12.6: 2, 6
May

1
§ 13.3: Comparing cardinalities; Exam Review
Assignment due:
§13.1: 2, 10
§13.2: 2, 4, 8, 10
Here is a link to the final exam study guide
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FINAL EXAM 1:00–3:50