Mid-Semester Survey

Please fill out the Mid-Semester Survey linked below.  You will be asked to log in with your Missouri Western account so that every student is limited to 1 response; however, your email will not be recorded with your responses.  That is, your responses are anonymous.  Please answer honestly.  Note that you are also asked to vote on the next topic we will cover after finance.

Mid-Semester Survey

Finance

This week, we will begin a new unit on Financial Math. Please make sure you print out the notes and bring them with you to class.  We will start this week with a discussion of interest - simple interest and compound interest.  There will be a lot of formulas in this unit, and you will need to practice with them to get comfortable using them.  I will provide you with the formulas (unlabeled) for the exam, so you need to focus on identifying what formulas apply to what problems.  In addition, it will be very important to remember your calculator for class every day in this unit - you don't want to have to do these calculations by hand! Those of you in lab should have been reviewing logarithms and exponentials in that class recently.  We will be using logarithms to help solve problems in this unit; if you need additional review of logarithms, please see me.  The webpage below is also a good source of review for problems involving logs and exponents.

Exponential and Logarithmic Equations

We will be starting with simple and compound interest on Tuesday.   I recorded a video lecture over simple and compound interest last time I taught this class (linked below).  

Mid-term grades will be submitted on Wednesday.  For those of you looking to improve your grade, remember that this unit doesn't build on the content from the previous two units, so you have a fresh start with Finance.  The homework (both online and the paper homework) is an important component of your grade.  Doing the homework is what prepares you to do well on the exam.  If you haven't been keeping up with the homework, now is a good time to start.  Come see me in office hours if you find you are struggling on the homework.  Finally, remember that you get points for participating with the blog.  Click on some links and comment about what you read.  These are easy points and you shouldn't miss out on getting them!  (In the comments on this post, tell me what you hope to learn in this unit and why.)

Extra Lecture Video

I made a video last semester over the most recent material covered in MAT110(E).  I have linked the video below if you would like to use this to review this material.

Remember that our Probability and Statistics exam will be in class on Thursday, March 8.  An exam review is posted in the Handouts folder linked on the right side of the blog.  You should try the review problems before class on Tuesday and be prepared with questions you have during class.