MATH 3GR3 Midterm Test #2 Information
- The test will be held from 11:30am to 12:20pm on Tuesday,
November 14 (during the scheduled 3GR3 tutorial time slot).
- It will be written in the scheduled
MATH 3GR3 tutorial room. Please ensure that you know where
this room is well in advance of the test. If you are not sure
where it is, please check on the Avenue To Learn site for this
course or on Mosaic, or ask Dr. Valeriote.
- This
midterm
test is worth 25% of your final grade in the course. You will
not be able to use an MSAF self-report form for this test, so if you
are not feeling well enough to write the test on the 14th, please
contact Dr. Valeriote and also please contact the Associate Dean
(Academic) Office to report your absence and provide appropriate
supporting documentation. Further details on this procedure can
be found here.
- The test
will cover material from the course up to and including the
material found in Section 10.2 of the course textbook.
- Specifically,
it
will cover material from the following sections: 1.2
(Equivalence Relations and Partitions), 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3,
4.1,
5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2. You should also be
familiar with the basic
properties of the integers found in Chapter 2. You will not
be
tested on anything to do with the SageMath system. You
will also not be tested on the proof of Lemma 5.14 or on the
simplicity of the alternating group on n letters, for n > 4
(Theorem 10.11).
- You should
know the definitions of the concepts introduced in the course,
along with the statements and proofs of the theorems, lemmas, and
corollaries covered.
- Make sure
that you are familiar with the various examples of groups that
have been discussed in the course to date. You
should be familiar with the notation that has been set up to refer to
certain groups. For example, U(n) refers to the group of units
modulo n (you should know what this group is).
- You will not be responsible for material from the
above sections
that was not covered in the lectures.
- To prepare
for the test, you should look over the relevant sections of the
textbook, review your lecture notes, and go over the first 4
assignments. In addition, you should try to do a good number
of questions from the end of each of the chapters of the text that
have been covered so far.
- Some
sample test questions can be found here.
Solutions can be found here.
- No aids
will be allowed during the test.
- Instead
of a lecture on Tuesday, November 14 at 8:30am, a tutorial session
will be run in the usual location of the lectures.