MGF 1106
Reference # 511178
Elizabeth Nicoli-Suco
1539 or 2223 (Math Lab)
Spring 2009
E-Mail address: esuco@mdc.edu
Telephone: (305) 237-3505
Office hours: Posted at the door of 1539
Textbook:
Blitzer, Thinking Mathematically, 4th ed.
Prerequisite: MAT 1033 (Intermediate Algebra) or suitable placement score.
Note: This course is not designed for students whose majors require College Algebra,
Statistics, or higher-level courses. Students who are required to take the CLAST should
do so immediately upon successful completion (C or better) of this course. These
students should attend CLAST workshops offered by the College, and review extensively
skills of arithmetic and algebra as described in the CLAST Pack for Mathematics,
available in the Math Lab.
Grading:
You will need to log into www.coursecompass.com; there you will find
the complete textbook online, along with videotapes and homework tutorial assignments
and quizzes. You will not need to buy the textbook if you do not want to. All you would
need to purchase is the access code to the site, which costs about $ 55.00. Follow the
instructions to register. When completing the registration, they will ask you for the
COURSE ID. The Course ID for this class is nicoli-suco32026
You will have 10 homeworks on line using mymathlab, four exams and one final exam
using Angel. If you miss one homework or an exam, then your grade on the missed one
is a zero. There are NO make-ups.
Your grade will be distributed as follow:
Online homeworks:
4 exams:
Final exam:
20 % of your final grade
60% of your final grade
20 % of your final grade
Your final grade will be distributed according to the following scale:
Average of 90-100%
Average of 80-89%
Average of 70-79%
Average of 60-69%
Average below 60%
A
B
C
D
F
No exceptions will me made about the due dates and times for the online work.
All Online Assignments due dates will be announced in class during class time and/or
can always be seen when logging in on coursecompass.
Incomplete: The grade of I is generally not given, and may not be given to any student
who is not passing the class with a grade of C or better.
Assistance: You can obtain assistance for mathematics classes in the Mathematics
Laboratory, room 2223. There, you will find course-related videotapes and computer
software, and tutors that can help you to successfully complete this course. The Math
Lab is open these hours:
MTWR: 7:30 am-9:00 pm, F 7:30 am-4:00 pm, S 8:00 am-4:00 pm
Classroom and Laboratory Etiquette: Please refrain from bringing food or drinks into
any classroom, lab, or into the courtyard. Please turn off any cellular phones and set
pagers to "vibrate." You are expected to arrive on time to class, depart when the class has
concluded, and treat others respectfully. You are encouraged to ask questions. The
tutors in the lab must help all the students and take turns; they cannot work with one
student for a prolonged period of time. We are unable to offer one-to-one continuous
tutoring.
Withdrawal: If you feel that you will be unable to complete the requirements for
passing a class, it is important that you drop the class by the college's "drop date" as
established by the registrar's office. You should speak to your instructor prior to making
the decision to drop. Remember that it is your responsibility to drop a class, not the
instructor's. If circumstances such as illness, accident, change in employment situation,
etc., prevent you from continuing to attend your class BEFORE the drop date, speak to
your instructor and see the Dean of Students (room 1201) for your options. If such a
situation occurs AFTER the drop date, you should contact the instructor for information
as to how you can complete the requirements for passing the course.
Registration: It is your responsibility to make sure that you are registered for this
course. Be sure to obtain a copy of your schedule to verify the reference number and that
you do not have any outstanding fees. If your name does not appear on your instructor’s
class roll by the first day of the mini-term as being registered and having paid for the
class, you will not receive a grade for this course, and you will have to retake it next
term, regardless of whether you continue to sit in on the class.
MGF 1106 Mathematics for Liberal Arts I
Competencies
Competency 1: The student will be able to perform the following operations on sets.
a. Find complements, unions, intersections, subsets and apply DeMorgan’s Laws.
b. Draw and apply Venn diagrams.
Competency 2: The student will be able to apply the rules of logic to:
a. Analyze/determine negations, disjunctions, conjunctions and various forms of
conditional statements.
b. Determine the validity of arguments, using symbolic logic and/or Euler circles.
Competency 3: The student will be able to apply the basic counting techniques:
a. The Multiplication Rule (or Fundamental Counting Principle)
b. Combinations
Competency 4: The student will have a working knowledge of basic probability theory,
including being able to:
a. Describe a sample space and an event.
b. Calculate probabilities of simple, compound and conditional events.
Competency 5: The student will have a working knowledge of basic concepts in statistics,
including being able to:
a. Distinguish between sampling methods.
b. Interpret data presented in graphs, charts and tables, as well as relationships
between data sets.
c. Calculate and understand relationships between measures of central tendency.
Competency 6: The student will have a working knowledge of basic concepts in plane
geometry, including being able to:
a. Round measurements; convert and determine appropriate units of measure.
b. Compute perimeters, areas and volumes of various plane and solid figures.
c. Distinguish between the various characteristics of quadrilaterals.
d. Calculate angles in diagrams involving parallel lines.
e. Classify different types of triangles, make angle computations, and apply the
Pythagorean Theorem and Similar Triangles Theorem.
MGF 1106 COURSE SYLLABUS
Ref. # 511178
Spring 2009
01/09 – 04/09
TEXT: Mathematical Ideas, 4th Edition
By Blitzer
Week
1/08/09
Sections Exams
Intro. ,
2.1, 2.2,
2.3
1/15/09
2.4, 2.5
1/22/09
3.1,3.2
1/29/09
Exam 1
(Chapter 2) on
Angel – Room
2201
Section “A”
Pages and Problem Numbers
P. 55 #s 1 – 95
P. 65 #s 1 – 61
P. 76 #s 1 – 91
Watch videos in mymathlab.com for 2.4
and 2.5
P. 86 #s 1 – 67
P. 97, #s 1 - 27
Watch videos in mymathlab.com for 3.1
and 3.2
P. # 113 #s 1 – 49 (every other odd)
P. 125 #s 1 – 57
Answer questions from Review # 1
Faculty.mdc.edu/esuco
Watch videos in mymathlab.com for 3.3
and 3.4
Homework 1 and 2 from mymathlab.com
due by 11:59pm.
Watch videos in mymathlab.com for 3.4
and 3.5
2/05/09
3.3, 3.4
P. 139 #s 1 – 61
P. 149 #s 1 – 49
Watch videos in mymathlab.com for 3.5
and 3.6
2/12/09
3.5, 3.6
P. 163 #s 1 – 49
P. 175 #s 1 - 19
Answer questions from Review # 1
Faculty.mdc.edu/esuco
2/19/09
Review
Exam 2
(Chapter 3) on
Homework 3 & 4 from mymathlab.com
due by 11:59pm.
Angel – Room
2201
Section “A”
2/26/09
10.1,
10.2,
10.3
3/05/09
No
Class
10.4,
10.5
3/12/09
3/19/09
P. 544 #s 5 – 36 (all)
P. 552 #s 1 – 26 (all)
P. 561 #s 1 – 31
Watch videos in mymathlab.com for 10.4
and 10.5
P. 571 #s 1 – 24 (all)
P. 579 #s 1 - 25
Answer questions from Review # 2
Faculty.mdc.edu/esuco
Exam 3
(Chapter 10)
on Angel –
Room 2201
Section “A”
3/26/09
11.1,
11.2
4/02/09
11.3,
11.4
4/09/09
11.5,
11.6,
11.7
4/16/09
12.2,
12.3
4/23/08
Review
Watch videos in mymathlab.com for 10.1,
10.2 and 10.3
Homework 4 and 5 from mymathlab.com
due by 11:59pm.
Watch videos in mymathlab.com for 11.1
and 11.2
P. 612 #s 1 - 19
P. 619 #s 1 – 45
Watch videos in mymathlab.com for 11.3
and 11.4
P. 625 #s 1 – 43
P. 633 #s 1 – 47
Watch videos in mymathlab.com for 11.5,
11.6 and 11.7
P. 639 #s 1 – 11
P. 649 #s 1 – 37
P. 660 #s 1 - 19
Watch videos in mymathlab.com for 12.2
and 12.3
P. 702 #s 1 – 47
P. 710 #s 1 - 9
Answer questions from Review # 2
Faculty.mdc.edu/esuco
Exam 4
(Chapters 11
& 12) on Angel
– Room 2201
Section “C”
Homework 7, 8, 9, and 10 from
mymathlab.com due by 11:59pm.
4/28/09 or
4/30/09
(Official
MDC
schedule
for Final
Exam)
Final Exam on
Angel - – Room
2201
Section “A”