MATH 1030
Elementary Functions
Course Information and Policies
- Fall 2026 Syllabus
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- The topics covered in MATH 1030 can be found by clicking here. Mastery of these topics will be assessed via three major exams, one cumulative mandatory final exam, frequent quizzes, and many homework assignments.
- Course coordinator: David G. Costanzo (dgcosta@clemson.edu)
Daily Course Schedule
If you click on the dates below, then you can download the blank slides that I use in class. The annotated slides from class can be downloaded by clicking the handwritten notes corresponding to your section.
FALL 2026
- Monday November 2, 2026
- exponential and logarithmic equations
- intro to trig
- handwritten notes from 003
- handwritten notes from 004
- Friday October 30, 2026
- properties of logarithms (continued)
- Quiz 6
- handwritten notes from 003
- handwritten notes from 004
- Wednesday October 28, 2026
- properites of logarithms
- handwritten notes from 003
- handwritten notes from 004
- Monday October 26, 2026
- logarithms (continued)
- handwritten notes from 003
- handwritten notes from 004
- Friday October 23, 2026 (no class: Friday after an exam.)
- Wednesday October 21, 2026
- intro to exponential functions
- intro to logs
- handwritten notes from 003
- handwritten notes from 004
- Tuesday October 20, 2026
- Exam 2, 7pm-8:30pm
- Monday October 19, 2026
- Review Day, no new slides
- Friday October 16, 2026
- horiztonal asymptotes (continued)
- slant asymptotes
- constructing rational functions
- handwritten notes from 003
- handwritten notes from 004
- Wednesday October 14, 2026
- intro to rational functions
- vertical asymptotes
- horizontal asymptotes
- handwritten notes from 003
- handwritten notes from 004
- Friday October 9, 2026
- linear functions (continued)
- Quiz 5
- handwritten notes from 003
- handwritten notes from 004
- Wednesday October 7, 2026
- inverse functions (continued)
- linear functions
- handwritten notes from 003
- handwritten notes from 004
- Monday October 5, 2026
- one-to-one functions
- inverse functions
- handwritten notes from 003
- handwritten notes from 004
- Friday October 2, 2026
- function decomposition
- Quiz 4
- handwritten notes from 003
- handwritten notes from 004
- Wednesday September 30, 2026
- function composition
- inverse functions
- handwritten notes from 003
- handwritten notes from 004
- Monday September 28, 2026
- difference quotient (continued)
- function composition
- handwritten notes from 003
- handwritten notes from 004
- Friday September 25, 2026
- domain of a function (continued)
- the difference quotient
- Quiz 3
- handwritten notes from 003
- handwritten notes from 004
- Wednesday September 23, 2026
- functions (continued)
- domain of a function
- handwritten notes from 003
- handwritten notes from 004
- Monday September 21, 2026
- radical conjugates (continued)
- functions
- handwritten notes from 003
- handwritten notes from 004
- Friday September 18, 2026 (no class: Friday after an exam.)
- Wednesday September 16, 2026
- radicals
- radical conjugates
- Problem Set (Radical Conjugates)
- handwritten notes from 003
- handwritten notes from 004
- Tuesday September 15, 2026
- Exam 1, 7pm to 8:30pm
- Monday September 14, 2026
- Review Day, no new slides
- Friday September 11, 2026
- rational inequalities (continued)
- exponents
- handwritten notes from 003
- handwritten notes from 004
- Wednesday September 9, 2026
- continued fractions
- rational inequalities
- handwritten notes from 003
- handwritten notes from 004
- Friday September 4, 2026
- complex fractions (continued)
- Quiz 2
- handwritten notes from 003
- handwritten notes from 004
- Wednesday September 2, 2026
- rational expressions (continued)
- complex fractions
- handwritten notes from 003
- handwritten notes from 004
- Monday August 31, 2026
- a few polynomial inequalites
- rational expressions
- handwritten notes from 003
- handwritten notes from 004
- Friday August 28, 2026
- polynomial inequalities (continued)
- rational expressions
- Quiz 1
- handwritten notes from 003
- handwritten notes from 004
- Wednesday August 26, 2026
- polynomial long division (continued)
- polynomial inequalities
- handwritten notes from 003
- handwritten notes from 004
- Monday August 24, 2026
- factoring (continued)
- polynomial long division
- handwritten notes from 003
- handwritten notes from 004
- Friday August 21, 2026
- add, subtracting, and multiplying polynomials (continued)
- factoring
- handwritten notes from 003
- handwritten notes from 004
- Wednesday August 19, 2026
- syllabus
- intro to polynomials
- handwritten notes from 003
- handwritten notes from 004