Let me try to accommodate some difficulties that I did not foresee. 1. Some people still don't have their textbooks. So (1) I'm willing to extend the due date of the first assignment for such people. (2) Tomorrow I'll try to copy the problems and post them. If you read the Allen chapters on Egypt and Babylon, you will have most of the background to attempt them. 2. The exercises are rather vague as to what exactly you are supposed to do. Obviously the game is to do the problems as much as possible in the way the ancients would have done them, but this is open to much interpretation. At one extreme you could simply work the problem as a modern algebra problem, at the other you could write everything in cuneiform. I don't recommend either extreme. We have a grader -- I met her today -- and we agreed the grading of Chapter 1 will be lenient, but with suitable rewards for unusually good answers. Look at the text discussions themselves for models to follow. Again I recommend the Allen on-line material, which is more detailed than Katz (for the ancient world -- later the situation will be reversed).