This page does not represent the most current semester of this course; it is present merely as an archive.

Following are the labs, in-class quizzes, quiz keys, and quiz grading rubrics used in the Fall 2019 offering of this course.

See also Spring 2020’s quizzes.

Lab + Quiz 01 – basic logic

lab 1 and key

quiz 1 and key

Grading rubric:

  • Page 1 (50%)
    • attempted all problems
    • have term definitions
    • all definitions are propositions
    • all definitions are atomic propositions
    • all definitions are from text
    • no part of text left out
    • have formula
    • 1st formula correct
    • 2nd formula correct
    • 3rd formula correct
  • Page 2 (50%)
    • attempted all problems
    • one when a ∨ b
    • three contains negation of their one logic (¬(a ∨ b) unless errors with one)
    • three is equivalent to ¬a ∧ ¬b ∧ ¬c
    • reasonable logic syntax
    • A ⊕ C column is 01011010
    • B ↔︎ C column is 10011001
    • (2 points) center column ↔︎ of other two (00111100 unless errors above)

Lab + Quiz 02 – direct proof and proof by cases

lab 2 and key

quiz 2 and key

Grading rubric:

  • Page 1 (25%)
    • start with (P ∧ ¬Q)
    • logic syntax used
    • attempted a full proof
    • applied rules correctly
    • no skipped steps
    • end with ¬(P → Q)
  • Page 2 (75%)
    • used same variable in all three blanks
    • wrote something in all four areas
    • got both case 1 expressions to same form
    • … with the case assumption correctly inserted
    • … using valid equivalence rules
    • … expressed in prose
    • got both case 2 expressions to same form
    • … with the case assumption correctly inserted
    • … using valid equivalence rules
    • … expressed in prose

Lab + Quiz 03 – quantifiers, logic, and English

lab 3 and key

quiz 3 and key

Grading rubric:

  • Page 1 (40%)
    • no G are F
    • everything is F
    • nothing is G
    • uses therefore symbol
    • all G are F
    • something is G
    • some G is F
    • in the right order with no extras
  • Page 2 (60%)
    • first: uses M and Z
    • first: universal or not-exist quantifier
    • first: logically correct
    • second: uses L and b
    • second: universal quantifier
    • second: implication
    • second: L(x,b) → L(b,x) not the other way around
    • third: universal or not-exist
    • third: allows both artist and champion to love
    • third: …only if they share no love

Lab + Quiz 04 – sets

lab 4 and key

quiz 4 and key

Grading rubric:

  • B has 1,4,9 (half credit for 1,2,3)
  • B has 0 and no extra elements
  • C has {} (half credit if C is {})
  • C has {4}, {9}, {4,9} and no extra elements
  • (2 points) A ∪ B has all of {0,2,3} and all of B ({0,1,2,3,4,9} unless B wrong)
  • A ∪ B has nothing else, with no element listed twice
  • (2 points) A ∩ B has only elements A has, and only elements B has ({0} unless B wrong)
  • A ∩ B has all such elements
  • A ∖ B has only elements A has, and no elements B has ({2,3} unless B wrong)
  • A ∖ B has all such elements
  • B ∪ C has both numbers and sets
  • ⊕-set is correct ({1, 2, 3, 4, 9} unless B is wrong)
  • ∀-set is B ∖ A ({1, 4, 9} unless B is wrong)
  • ∃-set is B ∩ {4, 9}

Lab + Quiz 05 – sets, sequences, cartesian product, powersets, relations, images, inverses

lab 5 and key

quiz 5 and key

Grading rubric:

  1. {(4,1), (4,2), (1,1), (1,2)}
  2. {(4,1,3,3,3), (4,2,3,3,3)} – extra parens like ((4,1), (3,3,3)) OK
  3. {(∅,∅)}
  4. two of aok, oka, and aaa
  5. MTHMTCS
  6. {0, 1, 4} – half credit if has 1 twice
  7. is defined as natural for some natural numbers but not all
  8. is not invertible with the domain and co-domain of ℕ
  9. b = 3a or equivalent – half-credit for a = 3b
  10. has at least one element of domain related to 2+ elements in co-domain

Lab + Quiz 06 – induction, contradiction, infinity

lab 6 and key

quiz 6 and key

Grading rubric:

  • Page 1 (50%)
    • base case includes 0
    • reasonable defense of base case being finite
    • induce on symbol (e.g. n), not specific number
    • next case is +1 (e.g., n+1)
    • appeals to addition of finite being finite
  • Page 2 (50%)
    • definition of x is mathematical, larger, and natural
    • defense of x being natural fits definition of x
    • defense of x being natural fits definition of natural
    • last blank mentions assuming led to contradiction
    • nothing else wrong with proof

Lab + Quiz 07 – combinatorics

lab 7 and key

quiz 7 and key

Grading rubric:

  1. 52 choose 5 = 2598960 (half for 52! / (52-5)! or 525)
  2. 8! = 40320
  3. 8! / 2!3!2! = 1680
  4. 77766
  5. 7776! / 7770! (half for 7776 choose 6)
  6. 15
  7. 3/64
  8. 40/57
  9. 40/60 = 2/3
  10. 1/1000 (half for 1/500; allow (999/1000)500 in front at no penalty)

Lab + Quiz 08 – summation proofs

lab 8 and key

quiz 8 and key

There is no rubric because the quiz version printed and shown in class contained an error large enough that the quiz was dropped entirely.

Lab + Quiz 09 – summation proofs

lab 9 and key

quiz 9 and key

Grading rubric:

  • has a base case
  • base case includes -1
  • base case shows both sides equal
  • has inductive step
  • inductive case assumes true at variable
  • inductive case shows true at variable + 1
  • induction argument uses algebra
  • algebra correct
  • has conclusion
  • structure: introduces induction, labels parts, etc

Lab + Quiz 10 – logarithms

lab 10 and key

quiz 10 and key

Grading rubric:

  • Q1 is 2 · 2 · 3 · 5 (or 2² · 3 · 5)
  • Q2 is 3^y = x
  • Q3 is log_c(b) ÷ log_c(a) – half credit if inverse of that
  • Q4 is 2 lg(a) + lg(b)
  • Q5 is 3/2
  • pf: each step follows from one above
  • pf: ends with only integers and powers on last line
  • pf: fits the rest of proof (e.g. 3^b = 2^a)

Lab + Quiz 11 – graphs

lab 11 and key

quiz 11 and key

Grading rubric:

  • makes assumption
  • assumption is negation of theorem (some shortest walk is not a path)
  • derives contradiction
  • states contradiction means assumption false
  • all logic-based claims are true
  • all graph-based claims are true
  • appeals to definition of path (no repeat vertex)
  • appeals to shortness/length in some way

Final evaluations

quiz 12 – no key released; students were permitted to take up to 2 pages, replacing previous grades if they did so.

final quiz – no key released; students were permitted to take up to all pages, replacing previous grades if they did so.