Syllabus, Part I
Math 1350, Revised Spring 2011
El Paso Community College
Syllabus
Instructor’s Course Requirements Spring 2011
I.
Course Number and Instructor Information
Math 1350/21837 MW from 5:30pm to 6:50pm or Math1350/21840 TR from 7:00pm
to 8:20pm, Fundamentals of Mathematics I
(Prerequisite: Math 1342 with a “C” or better or by placement exam)
INSTRUCTOR'S NAME:
Jorge Viramontes_______________
CAMPUS AND OFFICE NUMBER:
Valle Verde B242 ______________
TELEPHONE NUMBER:
(915) 694-5981 (preferred)/ 831-2617
E-MAIL:
jviram15@cp.epcc.edu
OFFICE HOURS:
II.
Check them at: http://www.math.utep.edu/jviram
Text and Materials
A.
Required Text
Long, Detemple, Millman, Mathematical Reasoning for Elementary
Teachers, 5th Edition. Adopted 2009
Packaged with this text is MyMathLab.
B. Materials
A Student Solutions manual (optional).
A scientific calculator is necessary; a graphing calculator would be useful.
III.
Course Requirements
A.
Grading Scale
Final Exam 20%, Three Exams 50%, Quizzes 15%, Homework 15%
The Course grade will be determined by taking the total points earned dividing
by the total possible number of points a student can earn, rounding to the
nearest unit, and assigning a letter grade based on the following scale.
Average Grade
90-100%
80-89%
70-79%
60-69%
0-59%
Letter Grade
A
B
C
D
F
Revised Spring 2011
Instructor’s Policies
IV.
A. Exams: There will be three exams (see calendar below for approximate timetable)
and one comprehensive final exam. There will be no retakes on exams, and no exam
grade will be dropped, but if it is to the student’s advantage the final exam grade may
replace one of the other four exam grades.
B. Homework: There will be a grade for homework. It will count 15% of your grade.
C. Attendance: You are expected to be in class. Since many of the activities we will be
doing are in-class activities, you will learn a lot more if you are in class. Excessive
absences may result in your being dropped from the course.
D. Participation. A student from each team is expected to go to the board during the
semester to do a homework problem or class problem. Anything more or less than 3
homework problems will result in ½ a point each added or subtracted from your final
grade for a maximum of 2 points.
E. This course may be taken for Honors Credit, see your instructor for more
information.
F. Friday, April 15, 2011 is the last day a student can withdraw with a “W”. If you
wish to withdraw from this course it is your responsibility to complete all the
necessary paperwork.
G. I (incomplete) grades are assigned whenever the appropriate assignments and
deadlines are met. To be eligible for an incomplete grade, a student must have at
least 80% of the course work completed with at least a 75% average.
V.
Tentative Calendar for Fall 2011 (Some deletions may occur)
WEEK
Dates
Activities
Section Titles
1.1, 1.2,1.3
1
Jan. 16 – Jan.22
Jan. 17 Institutional
Holiday no classes
Jan. 23 – Jan.29
1.1-An Introduction to Problem Solving
1.2-Polya’s Problem Solving Principles
1.3-More Problem Solving Strategies
1.4-Algebra as a Problem-Solving Strategy
1.5-Additional Problem-Solving Strategies
1.6-Reasoning Mathematically
2.1-Sets and Operations on Sets
2.2-Sets, Counting, and the Whole Numbers
8.1-Algebraic Expressions, Functions, and
Equations
2
3.
Jan. 30 – Feb.5
4
Feb. 6 – Feb.12
5
Feb. 13 – Feb.19
1.4, 1.5,
1.6 (optional)
2.1-2.2, 8.1
Review, Exam 1
3.1, 3.2, 2.3,
3.1-Numerations Systems Past and Present
3.2-Nondecimal Positional Systems
Revised Spring 2011
Feb.20 – Feb.26
3.3, 2.4,3.4,
6
7
8
Feb.27 – March.5
March. 6 – March 13
March 14-March 20
9
10
March 21 – March 26
March 27 – April 2
March 31st
Institutional
Holiday-No Classes
3.5 Review, Exam 2
3.5-Mental Arithmetic and Estimation
4.1, 4.2,
4.1-Divisibility of Natural Numbers
4.2-Test for Divisibility
Spring Break
4.3, Review Exam 3
12
13
April 10 – 16
Last Day to
Withdraw with a
“W” April 15th
April. 17 – 23
April 22
Institutional
Holiday no classes
April 24 – 30
14
15
16
May 1– May 7
May 8 – 14
4.3-Greatest Common Divisors and Least
Common Multiples
5.1-5.4
5.1-Representations of Integers
5.2-Addition and Subtraction of Integers
5.3-Multiplication and Division of Integers
5.4-Clock Arithmetic
6.1, 6.2
6.1-The Basic Concepts of Fractions and
Rational Numbers
6.2-Addition and Subtraction of Fractions
April 3 – April 9
11
2.3-Addition and Subtraction of Whole
Numbers
3.3-Algorithms for Adding and Subtracting
Whole Numbers
2.4-Multiplication and Division of Whole
Numbers
3.4-Algorithms for Multiplication and
Division of Whole Numbers
6.3, 6.4, Review
6.3-Multiplication and Division of Fractions
6.4-The Rational-Number System
Review
Exam 4, 7.1
7.1-Decimals and Real Numbers
7.2 ,7.3, 7.4,
7.2-Computations with Decimals
7.3-Proportional Reasoning
7.4-Percent
Review for Final
Final Exam Week
Date of Final Exam: M1350/21837: Monday May 9, 2011 from 5:30pm to 7:30pm
M1324/21840: Tuesday May 10, 2011 from 7:30pm to 9:30pm