Weekly Examlets


Examlets will be taken remotely and proctored on Zoom. Examlets 1-7 are 50 minutes long; the final is 1 hour and 50 minutes.

Use this link to enroll in our course on PrairieTest so that you can access the examlets during the exam window.

Before the first examlet, you must read the exam instructions. These instructions will NOT be reprinted with each examlet.

Starting with Examlet 3, you will be required to use LaTeX formatting when writing equations that contain elements (e.g. exponents, summations, math symbols) beyond ordinary plaintext. This is optional for the first two examlets, but we recommend that you get used to using it early, e.g. when typing in your tutorial problems. It is not difficult to learn the basics: here is a brief guide.

The listed chapters and skills are the new skills for each examlet. The examlet will focus on these new skills. However, be aware that you're still expected to remember concepts from earlier in the term.

The information (e.g., skills list, study problem) for each examlet should be viewed as tentative until a week before the examlet date. We don't expect large changes but there might be small ones.

High-level rubrics for the manually-graded examlet questions will be released a day or two before each examlet.


 
Examlet Exam date
(11:00-11:50AM CDT)
Review lectures/readings/problems from: Skills list Rubrics
#1: Prereqs and Logic
Number Theory
June 23 Week 1 Examlet 1 Examlet 1
#2: Modular Arithmetic and Sets
Collections of Sets
June 30 Week 2 Examlet 2 Examlet 2
#3: Functions
Graphs
Two-way bounding
July 7 Week 3 Examlet 3 Examlet 3
#4: Induction
Recursive Definition
July 14 Week 4 Examlet 4 Examlet 4
#5: Trees
Grammars
Big-O and simple algorithms
July 21 Week 5 Examlet 5 Examlet 5
#6: Recursion Trees
Code analysis
NP
July 28 Week 6 Examlet 6 Examlet 6
#7: Contradiction
State Diagrams
Countability
August 4 Week 7 Examlet 7 Examlet 7
Final Likely 1:00 pm on Saturday, August 9 Weeks 1-7 Final Examlet Final Examlet