INSTRUCTOR INFORMATION Stephenie Anderson Dyben Phone: 303-326-4204 Office: Math Office or room 261 Office Hours: 2 nd and 4 th period; Thursdays 3:30-4:15; by appointment Email: saandersondyben@aps.k12.co.us Best way to contact me: Email or stop by the math office COURSE INFORMATION General Information Course and Section Number: MAT 121 310 Day(s)/Times: Room: Course Description Course Prerequisite(s) Explores topics including intermediate algebra, equations, and inequalities, functions and their graphs, exponential and logarithmic functions, linear and non-linear systems, selection of topics from among graphing of the conic sections, introduction to sequences and series permutations and combinations, the binomial theorem and theory of equations. ~This course is one of the Statewide Guaranteed Transfer courses. GT-MA1 Placement in this course can be done through one of the following Accuplacer Placement Exam: Elementary Algebra (EA) score of 85+ Successful Completion of: (A, B, or C) Mat 099 Mat 096 Mat 055 OR 1. Students earned a B or higher at the end of Fall semester in Honors Intermediate Alg/Geo/Trig 3, Honors Intermediate Alg/Geo/Trig 4, or Intermediate Alg/Geo/Trig 3. 2. Student has an overall 3.0 GPA. 3. Student has the approval/recommendation from their course instructor and/or counselor. ACT/SAT Score ACT 23+ SAT 513+
COF Subsequent Courses If you are a Colorado resident and did not sign-up for the Colorado Opportunity Fund (COF) through your CCA admissions application, you will need to sign-up online. The COF application is free and is a onetime application that covers costs associated with taking undergraduate courses, but you need to authorize COF each semester. The application can be found online at https://cof.college-assist.org/. Students that do not fill out the COF application will be required to personally pay for course costs. This course is designed to prepare students who earn an A, B, or C for the following courses. Mat 122 College Trigonometry Mat 125 Survey of Calculus Note: Always check with an advisor to determine which course will meet your degree requirement. Important Dates Date Course Begins: August 8, 2017 Date Course Ends: December 20, 2017 Last Date to Drop With a Refund: September 8, 2017 Last Date to Withdraw ( W Grade, No Refund) : November 27, 2017 Course Materials Textbook: & Trigonometry 6/E Author: Lial, Hornsby, & Schneider D2L: This course has a companion site called Desire2Learn. You may access D2L through the CCA website www.ccaurora.edu by clicking on the MyCCA icon as well as the website cca.desire2learn.com. Additional Required Materials: Pencils and erasers, Graph paper TI-83, TI-83+, or TI-84 Graphics Calculator (some calculators provided in class) or Desmos App COURSE POLICIES Attendance Grading Attendance and full participation in class is vital to success in mathematics courses. Attendance will be taken, but is not graded. Excused Absence: You are responsible for any material missed during your absence. Assignments with due dates will appear on D2L. Have a fellow student you can contact to learn what was missed in class. The student s grade will be based on a percentage score. Students are
/Evaluation expected to monitor their standing and progress in D2L. Your instructor will review how to monitor your progress in this course. Each student's grade will be determined from the following scale: Grade Percent A 90-100 B 80-89 C 70-79 D (Not passing) 60-69 F (Not passing) 0-59 Points will be specifically earned from the following sources: Daily Work: 15% Quizzes: 20% Tests: 65% Course Conduct To minimize distractions, cell phones/pagers/mp3 players/etc. should not be visible or audible during class time. Do not use electronic devices to communicate with others during class. Professional and courteous behavior is expected at all times. A side conversation with another student is distracting to the students around you, so should not occur. Make-Up Work / Extra Credit As a general rule, there will be no make-up or extra credit work for missing any practice work, quiz, exam or other assignment. It is your responsibility to get missed work by seeing me or from a fellow student. Absences do NOT change the due dates for assignments. On the day of your return from an absence, you must turn in the assignments for the day you missed plus the assignments that are due on the day of your return. HOW TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS CLASS How to Come to Class Prepared What to Expect During Class What to Do After Class Bring your necessary materials, any homework questions, homework if it is due, and a good attitude. During class, we will answer questions from the homework. Be prepared to participate and to work together with other students. Pay attention. Take good notes. Try all examples. Ask questions. Right after class or at the very latest, first thing the next day - Start the homework. Mark any problems that you can't get correct or don't
understand how and why the answer or process is what it is. Bring those questions to class and ask them. It is unacceptable to leave questions blank. How You Can Use D2L What to Do if You Miss Class Where You Can Get Help Outside Class Students should be checking their grades at least weekly on D2L. They should also be checking D2L if they have missed class to find out information about the class they have missed material covered, worksheets handed out, homework assigned, changes to the schedule. Students are responsible for any information missed in class that is put on D2L. In addition, D2L can be used to email your instructor. Check with me or talk to a friend ASAP. How I can help you: I will be available before school or after school and during 2 nd and 4 th periods in the math office or we can arrange to meet another time. Thursdays after school, I will be available in room 261 from 3:30-4:15. How you can help yourself: How your classmates can help you: Math Tutoring Lab: Keep up with assignments. Work ahead if possible. There are many helpful websites, ask for a list if interested. Math Café is open Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3:30-4:30 pm in room 264 A. Study groups are suggested for working on assignments and preparing for tests. CCA provides a significant amount of free drop-in tutoring, including hours on Fridays and Saturdays, in room C109. Week/Date Week 1 Aug 8 Week 2 What will be covered in class Chapter R.1, R.2, R.3 R.4, Quiz Chapter R.5, R.6, R.7, Test Week 3 Chapter 1.1, 1.2, Quiz Week 4 Chapter 1.3, 1.4 Week 5 Chapter 1.5, 1.6 Quiz
Week 6 Chapter 1.7, 1.8 Test Week 7 Chapter 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 Week 8 Chapter 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, Quiz Week 9 Chapter 2.7, 2.8, Test Week 10 FALL BREAK Week 11 Chapter 3.1, 3.2 Week 12 Chapter 3.3, 3.4, Quiz Week 13 Chapter 3.5, Test Week 14 Chapter 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 Week 15 Week 16 Week 17 Chapter 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, Quiz TEST Thanksgiving Break Chapter 9.1, Chapter 9.2 Week 18 Chapter 9.7, 9.8 Quiz Week 19 FINAL EXAM COLLEGE WIDE POLICIES General Learning Outcomes The Instructional Unit has identified the following lifelong/workplace skills that are the foundation for your course of study at CCA: Communication, Critical Inquiry, Personal Responsibility, Quantitative Reasoning, Technology, and Aesthetics. Of these skills, this course will focus on Communication, Critical
Inquiry, Personal Responsibility, Quantitative Reasoning and Technology. Successful students will have shown through in-class exercises and specific course assignments the ability to pursue and retain knowledge, comprehend the various significant levels of acquired knowledge (analyzing and identifying their various components), evaluate the significance of the knowledge, synthesize ideas from multiple sources, and apply what is learned to work and life situations. E-Mail Site Emergency All students enrolled in the Community College of Aurora are assigned a college email account, and this email account is the college s primary means of communication with students. To activate your e-mail account, go to www.ccaurora.edu and access your account. To activate your account, login with your date of birth spelled out (no punctuation or spaces) as your password (ex: If your date of birth is February 14, 1992, your initial password is February141992). Information on how to respond during an emergency at Rangeview and an evacuation map are posted in each classroom. Please review this information. During an emergency or when an emergency alarm sounds, uniformed security officers or safety wardens will provide instructions which must be followed. Accommodations Concurrently enrolled students who require special services will receive those special services from their home secondary institution unless otherwise stated in the agreement between the college and the secondary district or school. Academic Dishonesty Policy INSTRUCTIONAL POLICY ON ACADEMIC DISHONESTY: Academic dishonesty includes cheating and plagiarism. Cheating is the unauthorized use of assistance with intent to deceive an instructor or any other individual responsible for evaluating a student s work. Note the following examples: Submission of any materials not prepared by students but presented as their own. The unauthorized possession and/or use of notes, books, calculators/ cell phones or the soliciting of assistance from another student during an examination. Illegitimate possession or disposition of examination or test materials and/or answer keys to tests and examinations. Plagiarism refers to the use of another person s work without giving proper credit to that person. A student must give proper credit through the use of appropriate citation format when (a) copying verbatim another person s work (i.e., words, phrases, sentences, or entire passages); (b) paraphrasing another person s work (i.e., borrowing but rewording that person s facts,
opinions, or ideas); and (c) summarizing another s work (i.e., use of one s own words to condense longer passages into a sentence or two). CONSEQUENCES OF ACADEMIC DISHONESTY: When dishonesty is evident, the following minimum sanctions will be applied: First offense: The student will receive an F or Zero as the grade for the assignment. In addition, the first incident may result in the loss of testing privileges in the Learning Resource Center for the current and next semester in which the student is enrolled in the college. Second offense: The student may receive an F for the course and may be expelled from the class. A second offense may also result in permanent loss of testing privileges in the Learning Resource Center. Third offense: The student may receive an F for the course and may be expelled from the college. COLORADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM COURSE REQUIREMENTS Standard Competencies As part of the Colorado Community College System, the Community College of Aurora is required to cover the competencies according to system policy. The competencies listed below will not exactly match with the schedule or textbook for this particular course. 1. Demonstrate an understanding of set notations, subsets of the real numbers and properties of real numbers. 2. Perform algebraic manipulations including working with exponents, radicals, polynomial operations, factoring and algebraic fractions. 3. Solve the following types of equations: linear, quadratic, rational, exponential, logarithmic equations involving radicals, equations in quadratic form and equations involving absolute value. 4. Demonstrate an understanding of formulas including formula evaluation and solving a formula for any of the variables. 5. Read and analyze problems in the form of word problem applications and obtain solutions using equations. 6. Solve and graph first degree inequalities, higher degree inequalities and inequalities involving absolute value. 7. Recognize and graph linear functions, rational functions, absolute value functions, and graph inequalities in two variables. 8. Work with function notation and demonstrate knowledge of the meaning of a function. 9. Demonstrate an understanding of function composition, one-to-one functions and inverse functions 10. Examine, evaluate and graph exponential and logarithmic functions. 11. Use at least two of the following techniques to solve linear and non-linear systems of the equations: substitution, addition, Gaussian elimination, Cramer's rule. 12. Perform operations with matrices and use a matrix operation
13. Graph systems of inequalities. 14. Identify the conic section represented by a given second degree equation and graph conic sections including circles, parabolas, ellipses and hyperbolas. 15. Explore various topics related to sequences and series including series notation, sequence formulas, counting principles, mathematical induction and the Binomial Theorem. 16. Perform synthetic division 17. Use the Remainder Theorem and the Factor Theorem to factor and evaluate polynomials. 18. Solve polynomial equations using the Rational Root Theorem and/or approximation techniques. 19. Write and speak clearly and logically in presentations and essays. 20. Demonstrate the ability to select and apply contemporary forms of technology to solve problems or compile information. The instructor reserves the right to change the daily teaching schedule to facilitate learning, comprehension, and critical thinking. Assignment due dates and the testing schedule may change with as much advance notice as possible. Students will be required to fulfill all assignments as outlined unless otherwise notified.