Wednesday, August 28, 2013

HW question


Hello!

This is ******* *******, and I am in your mat300 T,TH course this semester. I am curious as to if the 1.2 homework is due tomorrow, or just the 1.1 homework? 

Let me know.
Thanks. 


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Just section 1.1.--Tom Taylor

Monday, August 26, 2013

Homework Update

The syllabus has been edited and updated, book homework for the entire semester has been added to added to the syllabus.
Note:
1) The homework for section 1.1 is due this week on Thursday (August 29).
2) The first writing assignment is also added to the syllabus, it's due date is September 19

Sunday, August 25, 2013

Office Hours

Some 31 of 35 MAT243 students responded to the office hours poll and received 10 extra credit points--most of the class.  There were 4 students who did not respond and who did not receive 10 extra credit points....

I just announced the new office hours on the course syllabus by email.  They are
Tuesdays Noon-1:00PM
Wednesdays 9:00AM-10:00AM
Fridays 11:00AM-Noon

Just one email announcing the new office hours was returned as undeliverable from a foreward, so it looks like email communications are operational.

Thursday, August 22, 2013

Here are a Khan academy lecture and some exercises related to the lecture today.

Conditional statements and deductive reasoning 

Conditional statements exercise examples

Conditional statements 

Logical argument and deductive reasoning exercise example 

Logical arguments and deductive reasoning

Conditional statements and truth value

Logical reasoning

"Sentential Logic"
According to Merriam Online, sentential means
1: of or relating to a sentence <a relative clause with a sentential antecedent>
2 : of, relating to, or involving a proposition in logic <sentential connective>.
I'm not sure this sheds any light on what we are trying to do when we are learning sentential logic.    Or can you explain it to me? It looks like we have to figure out what we mean by doing...which is what we wind up doing anyway