MATHEMATICS 115-<section number>
<Quarter, Year>
ELEMENTS OF ALGEBRA AND STATISTICS FOR ELEMENTARY
AND MIDDLE SCHOOL TEACHERS
Instructor: <name>
Office: <location>
Office phone: <number>
Office hours: <days and times>
Tutorial center hours: <days and times>
Email: <university email address>
Final Exam: <day and time>
General course description: Prerequisite: Math 110. This course will cover basic
concepts in algebra, functions, probability, and statistics that are appropriate for
prospective teachers.
Textbook: <author and title>
Topical outline: Functions, relations, graphs of functions and relations, systems of
equations, slope and intercepts of a straight line, sequences, probability, data analysis,
and descriptive statistics.
Student learning outcomes: Students who successfully complete this course will be
able to:
Find probabilities.
Understand the difference between independent and dependent events and between
mutually exclusive and non-mutually exclusive events.
Use tree diagrams to model multistage experiments.
Use simulations to model probabilities.
Understand the difference between categorical and numerical data.
Use appropriate graphical displays to represent data.
Compute the median, interquartile range and outliers of a data set and graph with a box
plot.
Compute the mean, mean absolute deviation, variance, and standard deviation of a data
set.
Determine the domain and range of a relation.
List the ordered pairs in a relation, given a description of the relation.
Determine whether a given relation is a function.
Graph relations and elementary functions (linear, quadratic, cubic, reciprocal).
Solve a system of two linear equations algebraically.
Understand the equation of a circle in standard form.
Use the slope of a line and other information to find the equation of that line.
Find terms of a sequence, given the formula for the sequence.
Find terms of a recursively defined sequence
Find the nth term and the sum of the first n terms of an arithmetic sequence.
Find the nth term of a geometric sequence.
This course is graded ABC/NC for undergraduate students, and AB/NC for
graduate students.
Requirements: <attendance, assignments, homework, quizzes, tests, etc>
Grading system: <instructor’s grading system>
ADA statement: Reasonable accommodation will be provided to any student who is
registered with the Office of Students with Disabilities and requests needed
accommodation.
Academic honesty statement: Students are expected to do their own work. Copying
the work of others, cheating on exams, and similar violations will be reported to the
University Discipline Officer, who has the authority to take disciplinary actions against
students who violate the standards of academic honesty.
Student responsibilities: Students are responsible for being aware of all announcements
that are made in class, such as changes in exam dates, due dates of homework and papers,
and cancellation of class due to instructor’s absence. Students are responsible for
announcements made on days that they are absent.
Students must check their CSULA email account regularly for information from the
instructor and the Department. Failure to do so may result in missed deadlines or other
consequences that might adversely affect students. Note that you can forward this email
account to any other account of your choosing.