Houston Community College
Northwest College – Spring Branch Campus
Course Syllabus
MATH 0306: Fundamentals of Mathematics I - Spring Semester 2011
Instructor: Dr. Beverly Shirkey Course Reference Number (CRN): 67170
Email: beverly.shirkey@hccs.edu
MyMathlab Course ID: shirkey42554
Course Location: Spring Branch Campus Rm 213
Office location and hours: upon request
Course Times: Tuesday and Thursday 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Course Semester Credit Hours: 3 credit hours (3 Lecture).
Course Contact Hours: 48
Course Length (number of weeks): 16 Weeks – 01/18/2011 to 05/15/2011
Spring Break: 3/14/2011 to 3/20/2011
Final: Thursday, May 12 7:30 PM – Mandatory Attendance
Audience: This course is for students who require state mandated remediation.
Type of Instruction: classroom and course compass software program
Course Description: HCC Catalog Description
Topics include fundamental operations in whole numbers, fractions and decimals, percents, ratios, proportions, descriptive statistics, and an introduction to the real numbers. All students who enroll in this course are expected to complete MATH 0308 and MATH 0312 in the following consecutive semesters before attempting their first college-level mathematics course (usually MATH 1314 College Algebra). A comprehensive Departmental Final
Exam will be given in this course.
Course Prerequisite(s)
SAT: Less than 450 ASSET:Scaled Score: Less than 41 COMPASS:Scaled Score: Less than 49
ACCUPLACER:Scaled Score:Less than 49 Must be placed into MATH 0306 (or higher).
Course Goal
This course provides students with the basic arithmetical skills enabling them to proceed to the next level mathematics course. It is also designed to strengthen many of the skills that an individual must demonstrate or master in order to achieve college
Course Student Learning Outcomes (SLO): 4 to 7
1. Correctly choose and apply the four basic arithmetic operations with whole numbers, decimals, fractions and signed numbers to estimate and solve application problems.
2. Apply “Proportional Reasoning” to solve related problems including ratios, rates, proportion, percent and conversions of units.
3. Interpret data from tables, pictographs, bar graphs, line graphs, and circle graphs.
4. Simplify algebraic expressions.
Learning Objectives
1.1 add, subtract, multiply and divide whole numbers, understand the order of operations, and solve problems involving exponential notations.
1.2 solve problems by estimating and rounding.
1.3 add, subtract, multiply and divide integers.
1.4 find the least common multiples of two or more integers.
1.5 add, subtract, multiply and divide fractions.
1.6 add, subtract, multiply and divide with decimals and percent.
2.1 solve problems involving ratio and proportion.
3.1 read and interpret data from tables, pictographs, bar graphs, line graphs, and circle graphs.
4.1 simplify algebraic expressions.
Student Assignments
Homework assignments will be assigned using MyMathLab and is due within 48 hours of covering the material in class. All homework for the chapters covered in the upcoming test must be completed and corrected at least 24 hours before the review for the test. Students are expected to read the assigned pages in the book and work the examples provided. Quizzes on the assigned reading will be given at the first of the class.
Required Materials
1) textbook - Bittinger, Marvin L. & Ellenbogen, David J. Prealgebra and Introductory Algebra (2nd Ed),
Addison Wesley: Boston, 2008.
2) Mymathlab

Attendance
Attendance to all lectures is expected. Students are expected to be on time at the beginning of each class period.
If you exceed four absences during the semester, you will be dropped from the class. In the case of your absence from class, it is your responsibility to obtain notes and assignments from a classmate and to check with me for clarification of any missed material.
Cell Phones
Please do not take or make ANY phone calls or text during the class period. Set your phones to vibrate so they won’t disturb the class. Also, keep in-class conversations at a minimum. It is important that each student be able to hear the information being delivered to the class.
Calculators: No calculators are to be used on tests.
HCC Policy Statement: ADA
Any student with a documented disability (e.g. physical, learning, psychiatric, vision, hearing, etc.) who needs to arrange reasonable accommodations must contact the Disability Services Office at his or her respective college at the beginning of each semester. Faculty members are authorized to provide only the accommodations requested by the Disability support Services Office. Persons needing accommodations due to a documented disability should contact the ADA counselor for their college as soon as possible. Also, interested students may wish to consult the
Disability Support Services Student Handbook which may be found online.
HCC Policy Statement: Academic Honesty
At Houston Community College, academic integrity is expected of all its members and stakeholders. Academic dishonesty includes, but is not limited to, the willful attempt to misrepresent one’s work, cheat, plagiarize, or impede other students’ scholastic progress. Scholastic dishonesty is treated with the utmost seriousness by the instructor and the College. Please refer to the Student Handbook for specific information related to professional conduct and scholastic dishonesty.
HCC Policy Statement: Student attendance, 3-peaters, withdrawal deadline
Attendance: The student is expected to be on time at the beginning of each class period. For complete information regarding Houston Community College’s policies on attendance, please refer to the Student Handbook.3-peaters:
Effective Fall 2006, HCC charges a higher tuition rate to students registering for the third or subsequent time for certain courses. Students who enroll for most credit and CEU classes for a third or more time will be charged an additional $50 per semester credit hour and $3.00 per contact hour, except for courses exempted by The Texas
Higher Education Coordinating Board.
Withdrawals: It is the responsibility of the student to officially drop or withdraw from a course. Failure to officially withdraw may result in the student receiving an ‘F’ in the course. A student who officially withdraws from a course before the Official Date of Record will not receive a grade and the course will not appear on the student's permanent record. A student withdrawing from a course after this period and prior to the deadline designated in the HCC calendar will receive a grade of ‘W’. Students should take care in dropping a course, since the third or future attempt to retake a course will result in a higher rate of tuition. Students may only drop online during the drop/add period listed in the registration calendar. After the first week of class in a regular term, students must complete a withdrawal form and meet with a counselor to complete the withdrawal process. Last day to withdrawal is 4/21/2011 at 4:30 PM
Grade Determination:
There will be 4 tests, homework, quizzes, and a final. The tests will be 40% of your grade, the MyMathlab homework will count 25% of your grade, the in class quizzes will count 10% of your grade, and the final will count
25% of your grade.
HCC Grading Scale
90-100 "A"; 80-89 "B"; 70-79 "C"; 60-69 "D"; Below 60 "F"
A student scoring less than 50% on the Final Exam Will receive a F.
A student scoring at least 50% but less than 60% on the Final Exam will receive a D or an F for the course, depending on his or her course average.
Policy on Make-up Tests
There will be no make-up tests. If you miss a test, and have a documented reason, I will substitute your
Final test grade for the missed test.
Policy on Tests
All test grades will be counted. The lowest test grade will not be dropped.
Schedule
A tentative schedule of assignments and tests will be posted on the learning web. The schedule is subject to change.