College and Matrix Algebra Syllabus

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College and Matrix Algebra Syllabus

• Professor Crystal Rust
• Math 116

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Table of Contents for Syllabus

• Meet Your Facilitator
• Contact Information
• Is Online Learning for you?
• Course Goals
• Learning Objectives
• Evaluation Part 1
• Evaluation Part 2
• Course Policies
• Course Materials and Resources
• Course Design
• Course Calendar

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Meet Your Facilitator
My Teaching Philosophy I sincerely and
honestly believe that anybody can be successful
in learning mathematics given the right learning
environment. I disliked mathematics for many
years in school. The phobia of mathematics
started for me in third grade. When I went to
the University of Houston, I was still very math
phobic. I had attempted mathematics classes
several times at the University, only to drop the
class in disappointment and feeling that my
failure to understand math was confirmation of me
being totally mathematically illiterate. Then I
was blessed with Dr. Murray. He had a way of
bringing math alive, as well as, making math
understandable to me!! Years of math anxiety and
frustration melted away. I try to be like Dr.
Murray and help my students to the best of my
abilities. So never be afraid to come to me for
help?
Meet Dr. Murray at http//www.math.uh.edu/km/
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Contact Information

• Telephone [phone] 
• Office B-403D 
• E-Mail mathdoctor1999_at_yahoo.com
• Office Hours
• MW 900 a.m.-1030 a.m. 1245 p.m. 130
• TR 810 a.m. 915 a.m. 1110 a.m.
  1200
• Class Meets On line, no in class requirements.
  You are always welcome to come to my on campus
  section that meets 1110 a.m. to 1235 p.m. on
  Mondays and Wednesdays for additional
  instruction/support. This is NOT a requirement,
  just an invitation.
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Is Online Learning for you?

• Take this short quiz to see if you are
• prepared skill wise to be an online learner.
  
• The skills asked about in this quiz are skills
  
• you will need for our course
• http//www.sdccdonline.net/assess.htm
• The following site is offered by the college
  to provide you with valuable information about
  online learning and resources
• http//www.sdccdonline.net/students/index.htm
• View the following video tutorials for
  additional help
• http//www.sdccdonline.net/tutorials/stuorient.htm
  
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Course Goals

• This course is designed to strengthen the algebra
  skills of students seeking Business or Natural
  Science degrees who are required to take an
  applied calculus course.
• Course goals include the following
• Develop the theory of functions
• Examine how to graph functions
• Analyze exponential and logarithmic functions
• Solve equations involving algebraic, exponential
  and logarithmic functions
• Solve systems of linear equations
• Develop the concept of determinants
• Calculate determinants using Cramers Rule
• Formulate the theory of matrices
• Solve applications problems
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Learning Objectives

• Analyze, graph, and evaluate linear functions
  related to application problems in business and
  the natural sciences.
• Perform algebraic operations on functions and
  determine function inverses.
• Analyze and interpret the relationship between
  the properties and graphs of polynomial
  functions.
• Determine all the exact zeros of a polynomial by
  applying root-finding techniques and theorems.
• Analyze and interpret the graphs of algebraic
  functions including square root, cubic and
  rational functions.
• Solve and graph non-linear inequalities and
  systems of non-linear inequalities.
• Analyze and apply rigid and non-rigid
  transformations to algebraic, exponential and
  logarithmic functions.
• Solve equations involving logarithmic and
  exponential functions, including application
  problems.
• Perform operations with matrices.

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Evaluation Part 1

• A learners grade will be based on multiple
  measures of performance
• Homework assignments Homework as enumerated in
  appropriate assignments. These will be done on
  our Web-CT home space. The assignments will be
  grouped in the exam module sections.
• Discussion board participation There will be
  discussion boards in each exam module. You must
  respond and participate in them. Do not wait
  until the last minute to do these you must keep
  up a steady pace in the course. (Grading rubric
  found in discussion board section of each exam
  module.)
• Objective tests Will measure a student's
  ability to identify and perform the mathematical
  concepts outlined in the learning outcomes.
  (There will be three monthly exams, lowest one is
  dropped.)
• Comprehensive final exam. The final exam must
  be taken.
• The grading scale is 90 -100 A, 80 - 89 B,
  70 - 79 C, 60 - 69 D, 0 - 59 F.

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Evaluation Part 2

• Your final course grade will be determined
  by
• Homework Assignment score (15) will be
  calculated by adding up your scores, and dividing
  by the total number of assignments, the usual
  arithmetic average (Highest total average
  possible is 100 points).
• Discussion board participation score (15) will
  be calculated by adding up total points, the
  maximum is 100 points. (There will be a total of
  10 discussion boards each discussion board is
  worth 10 points for a total of 100 points.)
• Monthly exams (20 each exam out of two highest
  exams) (each exam is worth 100 points) Highest
  two scores out of the three monthly exams will be
  used in the final grade calculation. Hence,
  there are no make-up exams.
• Final exam score (30) (worth 100 points) You
  must take the final exam!!!
• Your formula to calculate your grade is
• (Homework score)(.15) (Discussion board
  score) (.15) (Monthly exam score)(.2)
  (Monthly exam score)(.2) (Final exam score)(.3)
  Numerical grade
• All graded work will be done and submitted in
  Web-CT

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Course Policies

• Cheating If I catch you cheating I will follow
  the procedures that are
• outlined in Miramar Colleges student
  handbook.
• Attendance Since this is an on line course,
  taking daily attendance is not possible. If two
  weeks of non-activity occur on your account, I
  will lock you out of the system until I receive
  some kind of message from you. If I suspect you
  are not participating, I will drop you!!
• Grade of W If you decide not to stay in the
  class without notifying me and do not drop
  yourself by April 11th, then you will risk
  receiving an F, if I do not catch it.
• For the above mentioned policies, please see the
  Miramar College catalogue at http//www.communityc
  ollege.net/catalogs/miramar/cat_miramar/cat_sec2.p
  df
• Accommodations Students with disabilities who
  may need academic accommodations should contact
  me by email, fax or phone with in the first two
  weeks of class. You and I can coordinate with
  the Disability Support Programs Services (DSPS)
  department to identify your appropriate
  accommodations. If you would like further
  information or have questions about DSPS
  services, please e-mail them at
  miradsps_at_sdccd.edu or call them at (858)-536-7212
  or (619)- 388-7312. The office is located in
  building C-304.

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Course Materials and Resources

• Textbook by Robert Blitzer entitled College
  Algebra fourth edition. Order it from the
  bookstore at this link http//www.bookstore.sdccd
  .edu/miramar/
• MATHDOCTOR1999 Web-Site I own and maintain a
  personal web site at www.mathdoctor1999.com. On
  here you will find the notes I have written for
  College Algebra and other courses I am teaching.
  Also, you will find more information and links.
• COMPUTER LABS The College has several computer
  labs available for our students to use. More
  information can be found at http//studentweb.sd
  ccd.edu/.

Hardcover 832 pages Publisher Prentice Hall
4th edition (2005) Language English ISBN-10
0007570678 ISBN-13 978-0007570676
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Course Design

• The course will be divided into Exam Modules,
  each containing
• lecture material, the notes I have written.
• references to the textbook pages to read from
  Blitzers textbook.
• assignments for that particular Module
• discussion boards for that particular Module
• exam review for that particular Module,
• exam for that particular module
• EACH MODULE MUST BE COMPLETED BY A SPECIFIC
  FINISH DATE!!

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Course Calendar

• Please see each individual exam module for the
  calendar for that section. It is a chart that
  contains what sections of the text, which lecture
  notes, and learning objectives for each exam
  module with due dates for assignments.
• Welcome to College and Matrix Algebra!

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