Preparing for the first midterm

Our first midterm will be October 13, the Friday after fall break.

How can you prepare for this?  My best advice is to practice problems.  Don't just read your notes, because I don't test you on how well you read math.  Instead, do problems from start to finish.

• You can print out blank copies of our in-class worksheets and redo the ones you need practice on.
• You can practice the "Flash cards" that I gave you (most of these are taken from the worksheets).
• You can redo the problems from the Check-ins, especially the ones you didn't get right the first time.  (These were supposed to be the "easy" problems from your web-assign homework, by the way, so if you got them wrong you should definitely make sure you can do them again and get them right).
• You can redo your Web-Assign homework problems, especially the ones you didn't get right on the first attempt.
• You can redo your group homework problems.  I wouldn't give you something that hard as a new problem on a midterm, but any past group homework problem is fair game for a midterm question, because I'm expecting you to have learned how to do that now.

The links at the right -----> include the flash cards and our in-class worksheets.

You will be allowed to bring an 8.5"x11" page of notes (you may write front and back on it; it should have your name somewhere on it).  So in your practicing problems, you can also start working on developing that page.

When you think you're ready, you can also see what a past midterm looks like.  Here's the midterm I gave last fall.   And here are the solutions to that midterm.

And of course, you should feel free to work with your classmates, and with the math tutors, and to come see me if you have questions!