Miami Dade College
InterAmerican Campus
Mathematics Department
Math for Liberal Arts (MGF 1106)
Fall 2009-1
INSTRUCTOR: Belarmino Gonzalez
PHONE: (305) 237-6216
OFFICE: 1367
EMAIL: bgonzal7@mdc.edu
DATES AND ROOM: TR 8:25 AM – 9:40 AM, 1388
WEBSITE: faculty.mdc.edu/bgonzal7
TEXT: Survey of Math Applications, 8th Edition
REFERENCE: 526710
PREREQUISITE:
MAT 1033 or suitable placement score.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: The objectives of MGF 1106 will be covered in three units: Sets and
Logic, Informal Geometry, Probability and Statistics
EVALUATION POLICY: There will be five tests worth 100 points each and a comprehensive
mandatory Final Exam. The lowest score among the five tests will be dropped. The Final Exam may
NOT be dropped. Your Final Grade will be based on the average of five test scores with the Final
Exam included.
MAKE-UPS: Absolutely no make-up examinations will be given.
GRADING SCALE:
A: 90-100, B: 80-89, C: 70-79, D: 60-69, F: below 60
Incompletes: Incompletes will be given in very limited situations. The students must have a passing
average and have a serious personal illness, family deaths, or unexpected crisis.
HOMEWORK: Homework will be assigned at the end of each lecture. It will not be collected but
questions will be answered at the beginning of each class. If you do not do your homework your
chances of passing this course are minimal, so try to keep up with the work.
ATTENDANCE: Roll will be taken at the beginning of every class. Attendance is highly encouraged.
Students are responsible for all material covered and/or distributed in class. It is your responsibility to
save this syllabus and all tests.
MATH LAB: Available on Campus. Highly recommended!!!
WIDTHDRAWAL POLICY: If you decide to withdraw from this course it is your responsibility to
do so in order to receive a grade of “W”. Drop/withdrawals should be conducted through the office of
the registrar.
CLASSROOM BEHAVIOR:
Beepers and cellular phones must be turned off before class.
Please, be prompt. Late arrivals are very disturbing for the instructor and disruptive to fellow students.
You should plan to leave enough time to allow for traffic, parking, inclement weather, etc.
Cheating. Cheating will not be tolerated in this course. Any student caught will receive an automatic F
in the course.
I reserve the right to make changes in the test dates as needed. Any changes will be announced in class as early as possible
MGF 1106
Tentative Schedule
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Week 7
Week 8
Week 9
Week 10
Week 11
Week 12
Week 13
Week 14
Week 15
Week 16
Week 17
SPRING 2008
Date
08/25
08/27
09/01
09/03
09/08
09/10
09/15
09/17
09/22
09/24
09/29
10/01
10/06
10/08
10/13
10/15
10/20
10/22
10/27
10/29
11/03
11/05
11/10
11/12
11/17
11/19
11/24
11/26
12/01
12/03
12/08
12/10
Introduction, 2.1
2.2, 2.3
2.4
2.5
Exam I(2.1 – 2.5)
3.1
3.2
3.3
3.4
3.5
3.6, Review
Exam II (3.1 – 3.6)
9.1
9.2
9.3
9.4
Exam III(9.1 – 9.4)
HOLIDAY
12.1
12.2
12.3
12.6
12.8
12.9
12.10
Review
Exam IV(Ch. 12)
13.4, 13.5
13.5, 13.6
13.7
Exam V (13.4 – 13.7)
Final Exam Review
Final Examination
MGF1106
COURSE 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, apply the Pythagorean Theorem
and Similar Triangles Theorem.