Text: Basic Mathematical Skills with Geometry, 7Th Edition

COURSE OUTLINE

Text: Basic Mathematical Skills with geometry, 7th edition.

The Streeter/Hutchison Series, by Baratto and Bergman- McGraw Hill

IMPORTANT: Below you will find a course outline. It specifies which sections of the text that will be covered and when. It also specifies the days of the tests and reviews. This outline is tentative and the professor has the right to modify it if necessary. Changes will be announced in class.

DAY / SECTION / TOPIC
Jan 8 / ALL / Introduction to Course and “Lab”
Discussion of MathZone Registration
Jan 10 / 1.1
1.2
1.3 / The Decimal Place-Value System
Addition
Subtraction
Jan 15 / 1.5
1.6 / Multiplication
Division
Jan 17 / 1.4 / Rounding, Estimation and Order
Jan 22 / 1.5
1.6 / Multiplication
Division
Jan 24 / 1.7 / Exponential Notation and the Order of Operations
Review
Jan 29 / Test #01
Jan 31 / 2.1
2.2 / Prime Numbers and Divisibility
Factoring Whole Numbers
Feb 5 / 2.3
2.4 / Fraction Basics
Simplifying Fractions
Feb 7 / 2.5
2.6 / Multiplying Fractions
Dividing Fractions
Feb 12 / Test #02
Feb 14 / 3.1
3.2 / Adding and Subtracting Fractions with Like Denominators
Common Multiples
Feb 19 / 3.3
3.4 / Adding and Subtracting Fractions with Unlike Denominators
Adding and Subtracting Mixed Numbers
Feb 21 / 3.5 / Order of Operations with Fractions
Feb 26 / Review
Feb 28 / Test #03 / MIDTERM
Mar 4 / 4.1 / Place Value and Rounding
Mar 11 / 4.2
4.3 / Converting Between Fractions and Decimals
Adding and Subtracting Decimals
Mar 13 / 4.4 / Multiplying Decimals
Mar 18 / 4.5 / Dividing Decimals
Mar 20 / Test #04
Mar 25 / 5.1
5.2 / Ratios
Rates and Unit Pricing
Mar 27 / 5.3
5.4 / Proportions
Solving Proportions
Apr 1 / 6.1
6.2 / Writing Percents as Fractions and Decimals
Writing Decimals and Fractions as Percents
Apr 3 / 6.3 / Identifying the Parts of a Percent Problem
Apr 8 / 6.4 / Solving Percent Problems
Apr 15 / 8.1 / Area and Circumference
Apr 17 / Test #05
Apr 22 / 10.1
10.2
10.3 / Operations with Signed Numbers
Apr 24 / Review for Final Departmental Exam
Apr 29 / Test #06 / Final Exam