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.)
  • 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 final exam, frequent quizzes, and many homework assignments.
  • 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: 6/30/25 Comments to: dgcosta@clemson.edu