Math 361, Spring 2021
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Course information[edit]
- See the syllabus for general information and the schedule of readings.
- Class meets Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m., via Zoom.
- Textbook: John Fraleigh, A First Course in Abstract Algebra, Seventh Edition.
- Instructor: Steven Jackson.
- Office: Zoom.
- Office hours: Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, 10:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
- E-mail: Steven.Jackson@umb.edu.
Important dates[edit]
- Weekly quizzes happen on Mondays during the last ten minutes of class. The first quiz is on Monday, February 1.
- First midterm: Monday, March 1.
- Second midterm: Monday, April 12.
- Final exam: Monday, May 17, 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
Recorded classes[edit]
Video recordings of our past classes are available to registered students via Blackboard.
Quiz link[edit]
Weekly quizzes happen on Mondays, starting at 11:40 a.m., and are due by 11:50 a.m. (During weeks when Monday is a holiday, the quiz happens on Wednesday.) They are hosted on a folder within our Blackboard site. Although the quiz will not become visible until 11:40, 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. More detailed exam instructions will be sent by e-mail as the exam dates approach.
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 Monday, February 1.
- Assignment 2, due Monday, February 8.
- Assignment 3, due Wednesday, February 17.
- Assignment 4, due Monday, February 22.
- Assignment 5, due Monday, March 1.
- Assignment 6, due Monday, March 8.
- Assignment 7, due Monday, March 22.
- Assignment 8, due Monday, March 29.
- Assignment 9, due Monday, April 5.
- Assignment 10, due Monday, April 12.
- Assignment 11, due Wednesday, April 21.
- Assignment 12, due Monday, April 26.
- Assignment 13, due Monday, May 3.
- Assignment 14, due Monday, May 10.
- Assignment 15, due before final exam.
