MATH 1030

Elementary Functions

Course Information and Policies
  • SUMMER 2025 SYLLABUS
  • Click HERE to read advice that former MATH 1030 students have for you! (I strongly recommend reading these suggestions.)
  • COURSE COORDINATOR: David G. Costanzo (dgcosta@clemson.edu)
Daily Course Schedule

If you click on the date, then you will be able to 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. I am also including a short description of the day's topic(s). By the way, there are almost always "extra" slides that I did not cover in class. I usually copy-and-paste them in the next day's lesson. So, if you happen to be absent (which you should not be), you can refer to the handwritten notes to see where I stopped.

Exam Information
  • There are precisely four "high-stakes" assessments in MATH 1030; specifically, there are three 90-minute unit exams and one cumulative 150-minute final exam. These assessments are no joke and constitute the majority of your final grade. The final exam is mandatory; there are no exemptions. On the bright side, your final exam will replace your lowest exam score.
  • Here are the dates for these assessments. Please mark your calenders.
    • EXAM 1: 
    • EXAM 2: 
    • EXAM 3:  
    • FINAL EXAM:  
Additional Resources

Below are some archived versions of MATH 1030. You are encouraged to explore them. I occasionally make some changes here and there based on student feedback. So, please be aware that your class might not be a replay of a previous semester. 

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ARCHIVED VERSIONS OF MATH 1030

*Spring 2025*

 

*Fall 2024*

 

*Summer 2024*

*Spring 2024*

*Fall 2023*

*Summer 2023*

  • MATH 1030 is offered as a part of Clemson's Summer Start program. Here are my class notes from Summer 2023. If you'd like copies of problem sets, quizzes, and/or exams, please email me!
    • June 28, 2023 (Introduction, operations on polynomials)
    • June 29, 2023 (Factoring polynomials: difference of two squares, sum/difference of cubes, trinomials)
    • June 30, 2023 (Exponents, Quiz #1)
    • July 3, 2023 (Intro. to radicals, properties of radicals)
    • July 5, 2023 (Operations on rational expressions, complex fractions, intro. to absolute value, Quiz #2)
    • July 6, 2023 (Intro. to functions, determining the domain of a function)
    • July 7, 2023 (Domains of functions continued, difference quotient, average rate of change, Quiz #3)
    • July 10, 2023 (Difference quotient continued, Intro. to function composition, the domain of a composite function, decomposing functions)
    • July 11, 2023 (Function composition continued, Intro to linear functions, slope-intercept form, parallel/perpendicular lines, piecewise function, Quiz #4)
    • July 12, 2023 (Exam 1)
    • July 13, 2023 (Zeros of polynomials, the Factor Theorem, polynomial long division)
    • July 14, 2023 (More fun with polynomial long division, intro to rational functions, all about asymptotes)
    • July 17, 2023 (Polynomial inequalities, rational inequalities, Quiz #5)
    • July 18, 2023 (More rational inequalities, one-to-one functions, inverse functions)
    • July 19, 2023 (More on inverse functions, intro to exponential functions, e^x, intro to logarithms, Quiz #6)
    • July 20, 2023 (Properties of logarithms, inverse functions of log and exponential functions, expanding & contracting logs, exponential equations)
    • July 21, 2023 (Inverses of exponential & logarithmic functions, prerequisites to trig: angles, coterminal angles, radians, Quiz #7)
    • July 24, 2023 (Exam 2)
    • July 25, 2023 (Reminders about radians, the trig functions as `circular functions', the Pythagorean Identities) 
    • July 26, 2023 (Basic right triangle trig: another approach to sine, cosine, tangent, secant, cosecant, cotangent, reference triangles, & reference angles, Quiz #8)
    • July 27, 2023 (Trigonometric equations)
    • July 28, 2023 (Varieties of trig equations: plain, twisted, mixed, & "hidden" polynomial trig equations, introduction to the inverse trig functions)
    • July 31, 2023 (The inverse trig functions continued: computations & techniques)
    • August 1, 2023 (Exam 3)
    • August 2, 2023 (Review Day for the Final Exam)

*Spring 2023*

  • You can click here to see MATH 1030 class notes from Spring 2023.

 

Course Coordinator: David G. Costanzo (dgcosta@clemson.edu)

 

Last Updated: 6/8/25 Comments to: dgcosta@clemson.edu