Math 360, Fall 2020
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Course information[edit]
- See the syllabus for general information and the schedule of readings.
- Class meets Tuesdays and Thursdays, 4:00 p.m.-5:15 p.m., via Zoom.
- Textbook: John Fraleigh, A First Course in Abstract Algebra, Seventh Edition.
- Instructor: Steven Jackson.
- Office: Zoom.
- Office hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 3:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m. and Wednesdays 1:00 p.m.-1:50 p.m.
- E-mail: Steven.Jackson@umb.edu.
Important dates[edit]
- Weekly quizzes happen on Tuesdays during the last ten minutes of class. The first quiz is on Tuesday, September 15.
- First midterm: Tuesday, October 20.
- Second midterm: Tuesday, November 17.
- Final exam: Thursday, December 17, 3:00-6:00 p.m. EST; please sign in to our regular Zoom meeting a few minutes before the exam begins.
Recorded classes[edit]
Video recordings of our past classes are available to registered students via Blackboard.
Quiz link[edit]
Weekly quizzes happen on Tuesdays, starting at 5:05 p.m., and are due by 5:15 p.m. They are hosted on a folder within our Blackboard site. Although the quiz will not become visible until 5:05, you are free to sign in a few minutes before this, and I recommend doing this so that you will have the full ten minutes available to answer the quiz question. I also recommend that you remain signed in to our Zoom session while taking the quiz. I will remain in the meeting in case you have any questions.
Exam link[edit]
There is a separate Blackboard folder for exams. On exam days, please sign in to Zoom at least five minutes early with your video on, make sure you have photo ID available to hold up to the camera if requested, and click over to the Blackboard folder in another tab. The exam will appear at the official start time of the class. You will work each question on paper, then scan or photograph your work and upload the resulting image file as your response. There is a "practice exam" perpetually available in the Blackboard folder, which will allow you to practice and debug the process on a technical level so that you do not encounter technical obstacles during the real exam.
How to use this page[edit]
Below you will find links to the weekly assignment pages. Each of these pages is editable by anyone in the class, so apart from telling you what problems to work on they are excellent spaces in which to ask questions. (If you are very shy you may ask your questions privately, either by email or in person. But we will all work more efficiently if you ask them on the wiki, so that each question only needs to be answered once.) It is also extremely helpful to try to answer questions posed by other students. I will monitor these pages to ensure that no wrong answers go uncorrected.
If you are not already familiar with them, you may wish to read about wiki markup and typesetting mathematics. Also, you may wish to add this page and the assignment pages to your watchlist using the link in the upper right corner of each page, then change your preferences to enable e-mail notifications; this way you will know about page activity without constantly re-checking all the pages.
Weekly assignments[edit]
- Assignment 1, due Tuesday, September 15.
- Assignment 2, due Tuesday, September 22.
- Assignment 3, due Tuesday, September 29.
- Assignment 4, due Tuesday, October 6.
- Assignment 5, due Tuesday, October 13.
- Assignment 6, due Tuesday, October 20.
- Assignment 7, due Tuesday, October 27.
- Assignment 8, due Tuesday, November 3.
- Assignment 9, due Tuesday, November 10.
- Assignment 10, due Tuesday, November 17.
- Assignment 11, due Tuesday, November 24.
- Assignment 12, due Tuesday, December 1.
- Assignment 13, due Tuesday, December 8.
- Assignment 14, due before final exam.
