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MATH.2190 Discrete Structures I

Welcome to MATH 2190: Discrete Structures I, this Fall 2026!

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Class handouts and notes

Week 11 Tue and Thurs (Nov 10-12)

  • Thurs:
  • Tue: Sec 5.1

Week 10 Tue and Thurs (Nov 3-5)

  • Thurs: Exam 2
  • Tue: Sec 4.2 Laws of Set Theory notes, Sec 4.2 table, Chapter 3 Review worksheet

Week 9 Tue and Thurs (Oct 27-29)

  • Thurs: Sec 3.9, Sec 4.1 Methods of proofs for sets, Quiz 7
  • Tue: Sec 3.8 Quantifiers, Sec 3.9 A review of methods of proofs

Sec 3.8 notes: notes, Sec 3.9 notes: notes, Sec 4.1 notes: notes

Week 8 Tue and Thurs (Oct 20-23)

  • Thurs: Sec 3.7 Mathematical Induction notes, Quiz 5
  • Tue: Sec 3.6 Propositions over a universe notes

Week 7 Thurs only (Oct 15)

  • Thurs: Sec 3.5 Mathematical systems and proofs (no quiz this week)
  • Tue: Oct 13 will run on Monday class schedule, so no Discrete Structures I this day. Go to your Monday class if you have one!

Sec 3.4 tables, Sec 3.5 notes: notes including printed two-page group worksheet

Week 6 Tue and Thurs (Oct 6-8)

  • Thurs: Sec 3.3 Part II and III, Sec 3.4, Quiz 4
  • Tue: Sec 3.2, 3.3 Part I

Sec 3.2 notes: notes, Sec 3.3 notes: notes, Sec 3.4 notes: notes

Week 5 Tue and Thurs (Sept 29-Oct 1)

  • Thurs: Exam 1, 3:30-4:30pm (no lecture on exam day)
  • Tue: Sec 3.1 Part II Conditional statements, review Chapters 1 and 2 (see Review Worksheet and Solutions on Canvas)

Sec 3.1 notes: notes

Week 4 Tue and Thurs (Sept 22-24)

  • Thurs: Sec 2.4 Part II Binomial Theorem, Sec 3.1 Part I Propositions and logical operations, Quiz 3
  • Tue: Slides: Practice Sec 2.1-2.2, 2.4, Sec 2.4 Part I Combinations

Sec 2.4 notes: notes, Sec 3.1 notes: notes

Week 3 Tue and Thurs (Sept 15-17)

  • Thurs: Sec 2.2 Permutations notes and Sec 2.3 Partitions of sets and law of addition notes and Quiz 2
  • Tue: Sec 2.1 Basic counting techniques - the rule of products notes

Week 2 Tue and Thurs (Sept 8-10)

  • Thurs: Sec 1.5 Summation notation and generalizations notes and Quiz 1
  • Tue: Sec 1.3 Cartesian products and power sets slides and notes and Sec 1.4 Binary representation of positive integers slides and notes

Week 1 Tue and Thurs (Sept 1-3)