MATH 110 SYLLABUS (MON/WED/FRI) – FALL 2011
INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Larry Bowen
SECTION: 004
COURSE TITLE: Finite Mathematics
CREDIT: 3 Semester Hours
TEXT: Finite Mathematics, 9th ed.
AUTHORS: Lial, Greenwell, Ritchey PUBLISHER: Addison-Wesley
ACCESS CODE: An access code is required to complete all assignments and tests for this course. It allows the student to
access the publisher’s website for the course, where all assignments and tests must be completed and where the entire textbook
may be viewed online. Access codes can be purchased with or without a hard copy of the textbook at a bookstore or online from
the publisher through the course software.
PREREQUISITE: A grade of C- or better in Math 100 or a minimum score of 250 on the math placement test.
CALCULATOR: Only the calculator on the MTLC computers may be used on tests in this course.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course is intended to give an overview of topics in finite mathematics with applications.
This course covers mathematics of finance, logic, set theory, counting techniques, elementary probability and statistics.
GENERAL LEARNING OUTCOMES FOR 100-200 LEVEL COURSES:
 Students will be able to discriminate between reliable and less reliable information in their decision-making.
 Students will be able to recognize and explain the scientific method, and evaluate scientific information.
LEARNING OUTCOMES FOR THIS COURSE: Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to
 Calculate simple and compound interest.
 Calculate future and present value of annuities.
 Apply laws of logic to argument analysis.
 Calculate simple and conditional probability.
 Analyze binomial and normal distributions.
 Calculate expected values and variances.
COURSE GRADES: This course is under the “A, B, C, NC” policy, +/- grades are given. Students must earn a minimum of
700 points (C-) to successfully pass this course. The course grade is based on points earned as follows:
4 Tests
400 points (100 points each)
COURSE GRADE SCALE
Final Exam
300 points (100 points times three)
Quizzes
168 points (42 points each test period)
A+ 980 – 1001, A 920 – 979,
A- 900 – 919
Homework
88 points (22 points each test period)
B+ 880–899,
B 820 – 879, B- 800 – 819
Class Attendance
24 points (1 points for each class)
C+ 780 – 799,
C 720 – 779, C- 700 – 719
Effort/Lab (out of class) 20 points (1 point for each deadline)
NC Below 700
Total
1000 points (Survey = 2 bonus pts)
*Student must earn a minimum of 700 points to pass.
Note: The last day to drop this course is Wed., November 2, 2011. No withdrawals can be made after this date.
TEST INFO:
DEADLINES
REGISTRATION WEEK
Test 1: Wednesday, September 21
8am Friday 9/9 – 5pm Friday 9/16
Test 2: Wednesday, October 12
8am Friday 9/30 – 5pm Friday 10/7
Test 3: Wednesday, November 2
8am Friday 10/21 – 5pm Friday 10/28
Test 4: Wednesday, November 30
8am Friday 11/18 – 5pm Friday 11/25
Final Exam: Sunday – Friday, December 11-16
8am Friday 12/2 – 5pm Friday 12/9
Test times available: To be announced.
Final Exam times: 8 am, 11:30 am, 3:30 pm, 7 pm (all times may not be available each day)
Please read Test Rules on this syllabus for detailed information.
MTLC INFO:
LOCATION: B1 Tutwiler
PHONE: 348-2592
WEBSITE: www.mtlc.ua.edu
HOURS: Sunday: 4pm – 10pm
CLOSINGS: Labor Day Holiday: Sun. 9/4 and Mon. 9/5
Monday – Thursday: 8am – 10pm
Fall Break: 10pm Wed. 10/26 – 4pm Sun. 10/30
Friday: 8am – 4:45pm
Thanksgiving Holiday: 5pm Tue. 11/22 – 4pm Sun. 11/27
NOTE: Last day for help in the MTLC is Sunday 12/11. Lab will be open during final exam week for testing only. Lab hours
are counted Sunday – Friday. You must swipe your ACT card in and out to receive credit for lab attendance. No exceptions.
CODE OF ACADEMIC CONDUCT: All students in attendance at the University of Alabama are expected to be honorable
and to observe standards of conduct appropriate to a community of scholars. The University expects from its students a higher
standard of conduct than the minimum required to avoid discipline. Academic misconduct includes all acts of dishonesty in any
academically related matter and any knowing or intentional help or attempt to help, or conspiracy to help, another student. The
Academic Misconduct Disciplinary Policy will be followed in the event of academic misconduct.
DISABILITY STATEMENT: If you are registered with the Office of Disability Services, please make an appointment with
me as soon as possible to discuss any course accommodations that may be necessary. If you have a disability, but have not
contacted the Office of Disability Services, please call 348-4285 or visit 133-B Martha Parham Hall East to register for services.
Students who may need course adaptations because of a disability are welcome to make an appointment to see me during office
hours. Students with disabilities must be registered with the Office of Disability Services, 133-B Martha Parham Hall East,
before receiving academic adjustments.
SEVERE WEATHER PROTOCOL
In the case of a tornado warning (tornado has been sighted or detected by radar; sirens activated), all university activities are
automatically suspended, including all classes and laboratories. If you are in a building, please move immediately to the lowest
level and toward the center of the building away from windows (interior classrooms, offices, or corridors) and remain there until
the tornado warning has expired. Classes in session when the tornado warning is issued can resume immediately after the
warning has expired at the discretion of the instructor. Classes that have not yet begun will resume 30 minutes after the tornado
warning has expired provided at least half of the class period remains.
UA is a residential campus with many students living on or near campus. In general classes will remain in session until the
National Weather Service issues safety warnings for the city of Tuscaloosa. Clearly, some students and faculty commute from
adjacent counties. These counties may experience weather related problems not encountered in Tuscaloosa. Individuals should
follow the advice of the National Weather Service for that area taking the necessary precautions to ensure personal safety.
Whenever the National Weather Service and the Emergency Management Agency issue a warning, people in the path of the
storm (tornado or severe thunderstorm) should take immediate life saving actions.
When West Alabama is under a severe weather advisory, conditions can change rapidly. It is imperative to get to where
you can receive information from the National Weather Service and to follow the instructions provided. Personal safety
should dictate the actions that faculty, staff and students take. The Office of Public Relations will disseminate the latest
information regarding conditions on campus in the following ways:
 Weather advisory posted on the UA homepage
 Weather advisory sent out through Connect-ED--faculty, staff and students (sign up at myBama)
 Weather advisory broadcast over WVUA at 90.7 FM
 Weather advisory broadcast over Alabama Public Radio (WUAL) at 91.5 FM
 Weather advisory broadcast over WVUA 7. WVUA 7 Storm Watch provides a free service you can subscribe to that
allows you to receive weather warnings for Tuscaloosa via e-mail, pager or cell phone. Check
http://www.wvua7.com/stormwatch.html for details.
EMAIL REQUIREMENT: All correspondence will be through your crimson email account. If you have any trouble with your
crimson account, contact the OIT service desk located in Gordon Palmer. You can reach me via e-mail at lbowen@ctl.ua.edu.
QUIZZES and HOMEWORK: There will be a quiz and a graded homework assignment given on each section covered. They
must be completed before each expiration date and time. For each test period you will be allowed to drop one quiz grade and
one homework grade. Homework can be worked on until all questions are correct. You have unlimited tries on each homework,
but only 2 tries for each quiz. You will not be given help during your quizzes or tests, but help may be given when you are
reviewing a quiz or test. Tests must be taken in the MTLC.
MAKE-UP POLICY: If homework or quizzes are missed due to a serious, verifiable circumstance, then make-up work may be
allowed. Any student requesting to make up work must fill out a petition request form in 345 Gordon Palmer with an excuse and
supporting documents attached. If a test is missed, the student must petition to request that the zero test grade be replaced with
the final exam grade. Students who must miss work or tests due to official University business must make arrangements for
makeup work beforehand. Excuses must be taken to the math department (345 Gordon Palmer) as soon as possible.
REPLACEMENT POLICY: Everyone will automatically have the lowest test grade replaced with the final exam grade.
However, zeros due to an unexcused absence or academic misconduct will not be automatically replaced. Students who miss a
test but have an excuse must turn in a petition request form with excuse & supporting documents attached at the math dept office
(345 Gordon Palmer) as soon as possible. Missed tests will be replaced only if the petition request panel approves the excuse.
ATTENDANCE POLICIES:
 Every student is required to come to the scheduled class.
 CLASS ATTENDANCE: We will have class on Friday, 8/26 (week 1) & Friday, 11/4 (the Friday after test 3). Other than
those two Fridays, class meetings will be held only on Mondays & Wednesdays. You are required to attend and actively
participate in each class meeting every week. Each class meeting is worth 1 point, for a total of 24 class attendance points
for the semester. No class meetings on test days.
 EFFORT POINTS/LAB ATTENDANCE: Time spent working on math shows a strong correlation with success in the
course. In addition to class attendance, each student is expected to spend sufficient time outside of class to successfully
complete each assignment. Students are not required to be in the MTLC (Math Lab) during the scheduled class times on
Fridays, but may use the MTLC any time it is open to work on math assignments. The MTLC is typically open more than
70 hours each week and has plenty of computers as well as a staff of instructors and tutors to help individuals as needed.
To encourage and to help ensure success, an effort point will be associated with each assignment deadline. To earn the
effort point, a student must make 75% or more on each assignment (homeworks, quizzes, and tests) due at a particular
deadline. If a student makes less than 75% on ANY assignment due at a particular deadline, then the student may still earn
the effort point by spending at least 60 minutes between that deadline and the NEXT deadline working on math
assignments in the MTLC. Lab attendance is counted from deadline to deadline. There is 1 effort point for each deadline,
for a total of 20 points possible for the semester.
EARLY COURSE COMPLETION: You are encouraged to work ahead of the syllabus deadlines, and to take tests and the
final exam early. Once you have taken the final, you do not need to continue coming to class or coming to the MTLC to work.
All the remaining attendance requirements are automatically counted for full credit.
WORKING FROM HOME: The Math 110 course work can be done on your personal computer. Internet access is required in
order to reach the website where the notes, homework, and exercises are found. The website is http://ua.mylabsplus.com. If this
page ever fails to load, try typing the website rather than choosing it from the dropdown menu. Certain plugins must be
downloaded for successful operation from home. To get these, you will login to the website with your own personal login and
password as given by the MTLC. Next, click on your course section. Select the MyMathLab Browser Check link and follow
the instructions on the screen. Students doing graded work from home risk grades not being properly saved. If scores are
not successfully sent from home and the deadline passes, you will NOT be able to make up the work. In case of any
problems, come to the MTLC immediately to complete work. Tests must be taken in the MTLC.
MTLC RULES
1. The MTLC is a math classroom. Please be quiet during your visit to the MTLC.
2. Swipe your ACT card when you enter the MTLC and swipe it when you leave, even for a short break. Do not swipe an
ACT card other than your own. Violators will be charged with academic misconduct and reported to the Dean’s office.
3. Phones, food, drinks (incl water), tobacco products & companions are NOT allowed in the MTLC. A phone violation will
cause your cell phone to be detained until you leave the MTLC. Cell phones should be out of sight and turned off.
4. Other than math, no activities-talking, surfing the Internet, computer games, typing a paper, sleeping, etc. are allowed in the
MTLC. A violation will cause your attendance credit to be 0 for the day & you will be asked to leave the MTLC.
5. The use of a computer in the MTLC is on a first-come first-serve basis; no reservation can be made for normal course work.
(Reservations are required for tests. See Test Rules below.)
6. No attendance credit will be given to students who do not have their ACT cards.
7. Take notes. Record each homework score and quiz score once you finish it on the record sheet that is provided for you.
8. Please do not hesitate to ask questions in the MTLC. Staff members in the MTLC are there to help you.
TEST RULES: Tests must be taken in the MTLC.
1. There are four 75-minute tests & a 150-minute comprehensive final exam. Dates are listed on the front page of the syllabus.
2. You may take your tests early: “Early” means before the close of online registration for that exam. No registration is
needed and no penalties will apply for early tests. However, no tests will be given at all on Sundays. You may not begin a
test if the MTLC is scheduled to close before the end of your full allotted time: usually you must begin by 8pm (7pm for a
final exam), or on Fridays by 3pm (2pm for a final exam).
3. You must reserve a time in order to take an exam on a test deadline day. Test weeks are a logistical challenge; you
must tell MTLC when you will come, and you must do what you say. The front page of the syllabus lists beginning and
ending dates/times for online registration for each exam. To register online, go to the MTLC website (www.mtlc.ua.edu),
select link Test Registration, log in as instructed, select link Register, then choose an available date and time. You may
freely cancel or change your test time while online registration is active. Be sure to verify your registration: log back in to
the test registration site or check your confirmation email message.
4. After online registration closes (at 5pm on Friday before the deadline week), you must come in person to the MTLC to
register or to change your test time. You must sign up manually with the instructor on duty; no phone calls or email
arrangements can be accepted. In this case, points will be deducted from your test grade as follows:
10 points if you did not register online
5 points if you change your test time after online registration closes but before your scheduled test time
10 points if you miss your test time and reschedule, or if no open seats remain when you come to register
The penalties are CUMULATIVE. You may fill out a petition request form to have penalty waived with a valid excuse.
5. If you miss a test and your course’s testing period has NOT ended, come to the MTLC to reschedule. If the testing period is
over, see REPLACEMENT POLICY above.
6. Arrive on time for your test. Tardiness will cost you working time on the test. Bring your ID and pencils with you. Swipe
your ACT card at the MTLC entrance and then follow signs to the back hallway. Staff will check your ID and give you a
personalized test paper (which is your initial scratch paper), then direct you to your seat.
7. NO ELECTRONIC DEVICES may be active in testing area. Phones, texting devices, iPods, MP3 players, etc must be off
& put away before picking up your test paper. Using electronic devices during a test will be treated as academic misconduct.
8. Place all belongings on the floor. Once you enter the testing area, all review material must be put away. As soon as you are
seated and logged in, you may begin your exam. The MTLC will give you additional scratch paper as needed; no other
paper is allowed. When you are finished, staff will score your test and collect all papers.
9. ONLY THE CALCULATOR ON THE COMPUTER MAY BE USED ON TESTS. The only webpage that may be opened
during a test is the testing page. Opening any other website during testing will be treated as academic misconduct.
10. An MTLC staff member must be present when your test is submitted for a grade in case it is not properly saved.
11. You can review your test before you leave the lab but you may not write down any information pertaining to test questions
to take with you when you leave the MTLC after an exam. You may not share any test information with anyone who hasn’t
taken the test. Violators will be charged with academic misconduct.
12. During test weeks, the MTLC will be available for studying, reviewing, and/or working assignments during normal hours on
Sunday, only between 8:15pm-10pm Monday-Wednesday, not at all on Thursday, and during normal hours on Friday.
13. No one may leave the testing area during a test without permission. This includes getting water and using the restroom.”
MATH SOFTWARE LOG IN INFORMATION: Go to ua.mylabsplus.com. (The MTLC sets up the log in information for each student.
If you cannot log in with this following information, then please come to the MTLC immediately for assistance.)
Your username: Crimson email address example: jksmith@crimson.ua.edu
Your password: CWID
example: 12345678
NOTE: You will find your current course under the Alabama Fall 2011 Term.
Quizzes and Homework have expiration dates and times, which may only be extended if a petition request is approved.
Test 1 Material: Test 1 is on Wednesday 9/21
Date
Section Title
Completion Deadline
Orient/7.1 :
Orientation
8/24
Syllabus Quiz – must be taken in the MTLC
Friday 9/2 by 4 :45 pm
7.1 Sets
Tuesday 8/30, hw by 8pm, quiz by 10pm
F 8/26
M 8/29
7.2 Applications of Venn Diagrams
Tuesday 8/30, hw by 8pm, quiz by 10pm
W 8/31
7.3 Introduction to Probability
Friday 9/2, hw by 3pm, quiz by 4:45pm
W 9/7
7.4 Basic Concepts of Probability
Friday 9/9, hw by 3pm, quiz by 4:45pm
7.5 Conditional Probability; Independent Events
Tuesday 9/13, hw by 8pm, quiz by 10pm
M 9/12
Test Rules Quiz
Friday 9/16 by 4:45 pm
W 9/14
8.1
M 9/19
The Multiplication Principle; Permutations,
Computer calculator
Review for Test 1
Online
Registration
for Test 1
begins at
8am 9/9 and
ends at 5pm
9/16
Friday 9/16, hw by 3pm, quiz by 4:45pm
Test 1 Wed 9/21 in MTLC– NO CLASS
W 10/5
M 10/10
Test 2 Material: Test 2 is on Wednesday 10/12
Section Title
Completion Deadline
Online
8.2 Combinations
Tuesday 9/27, hw by 8pm, quiz by 10pm
Registration
8.3 Probability Applications of Counting Principles
Friday 9/30, hw by 3pm, quiz by 4:45pm
for Test 2
begins at
Binomial Probability (These homework problems
8.4
Friday 10/7, hw by 3pm, quiz by 4:45pm
8am 9/30
take time. Do NOT put this off!)
and ends at
8.5 Probability Distributions; Expected Value
Friday 10/7, hw by 3pm, quiz by 4:45pm
Review for Test 2
Test 2 Wed 10/12 in MTLC– NO CLASS 5pm 10/7
Date
M 10/17
W 10/19
M 10/24
W 10/26
M 10/31
Test 3 Material: Test 3 is on Wednesday 11/2
Section Title
Completion Deadline
6.1 Statements and Quantifiers
Tuesday 10/18, hw by 8pm, quiz by 10pm
6.2 Truth Tables & Equivalent Statements
Friday 10/21, hw by 3pm, quiz by 4:45pm
6.3 The Conditional and Circuits
Tuesday 10/25, hw by 8pm, quiz by 10pm
6.4 More on the Conditional
Sunday 10/30, hw by 8pm, quiz by 10pm
Review for Test 3
Test 3 Wed 11/2 in MTLC– NO CLASS
Date
M 9/26
W 9/28
M 10/3
Date
F 11/4
M&W
11/7&9
W 11/14
W 11/16
M 11/21
M 11/28
Date
M&W
12/5&7
Test 4 Material: Test 4 is on Wednesday 11/30
Section Title
Completion Deadline
Frequency Distributions; Measures of Central
9.1
Tendency
Tuesday 11/8, hw by 8pm, quiz by 10pm
9.2 Measures of Variations, Statistics box of calculator
9.3
The Normal Distribution
Friday 11/11, hw by 3pm, quiz by 4:45pm
5.1
5.2
5.3
Simple and Compound Interest
Future Value of an Annuity
Present Value of an Annuity; Amortization
Review for test 4
Tuesday 11/15, hw by 8pm, quiz by 10pm
Friday 11/18, hw by 3pm, quiz by 4:45pm
Sunday 11/27 hw by 8pm, quiz by 10pm
Test 4 Wed 11/30 in MTLC– NO CLASS
Section Title
All
Online
Registration
for Test 3
begins at
8am 10/21
and ends at
5pm 10/28
Online
Registration
for Test 4
begins at
8am 11/18
and ends at
5pm 11/25
Comprehensive Final Exam is Sunday 12/11 to Friday 12/16
Completion Deadline
Review for final
FE Reg.
8am 12/2 to
Last day for help in MTLC is Sun. 12/11 5pm 12/9
Extra Help: The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) will hold twice-weekly help sessions in the MTLC and test reviews
before each test. The CTL (Osband Hall) also has FREE private tutors available by appointment.
Phone: 348-8854. Web address: www.ctl.ua.edu.