WCC College Algebra for Business and Social Science
Math 109, Section 004, Spring 2020

Lecture Notes to accompany College Alegbra, 2nd edition, Miller & Gerken

Week 1

Sections 1.1& 1.2 -- Linear equations and applications
Section 1.7 -- Linear inequalities (Clicker Problems)

Week 2

Section 1.1 -- Rational equations
Section 1.4 -- Quadratic equations

Week 3

Section 1.1 -- Rational equations
Section 1.6 -- More equations (Clicker Problems)

Week 4

Sections 2.4 & 2.5 -- Lines and linear equations in two variables
Section 2.6 -- Graphing parabolas

Week 5

Sections 2.4 & 2.5 -- Equations of lines (Clicker Problems)

Week 6

Section 2.3 -- Functions

Week 7

Section 2.5 -- Applications of linear equations
Section 2.6 -- Graphs of some special functions
Section 2.7 -- Analyzing graphs of functions

Weeks 8 & 9

Section 2.7 -- Analyzing graphs of functions
Section 2.6 -- Graphs of some special functions, Translations of graphs (Clicker Problems)

Week 10

Section 2.6 -- Transformation of graphs
Section 2.8 -- Algebraic operations on functions

Week 11

Section 3.1 -- Quadratic functions and parabolas
Section 3.3 -- Polynomials and polynomial division

Week 12

Section 3.2 -- Polynomials and their graphs
Section 3.5 -- Rational functions

Week 13

Section 3.6 -- Polynomial and rational inequalities

Week 14

Section 4.1 -- Inverse functions
Section 4.2 -- Exponential functions

Week 15

Section 4.3 -- Logarithmic functions
Section 4.4 -- Properties of logarithms
Section 4.5 -- Logarithmic and exponential equations

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