RCC– Math 111 College Algebra – Kathie Davidson – Winter 2017 – Syllabus
Course: Math 111 College Algebra, section R3, four credits
Prerequisite: Math 95 or 93/94 and RD 30, or appropriate placement score
Instructor:Kathie Davidson
Time and Place:Tue & Thur 5:30 - 7:20 P.M. (come early for help 4:45 - 5:30) HEC-214
Required Materials:
● Text:PrecalculuswithModelingandVisualizationVolumeOne; Gary Rockswold; 2014
(Second Custom Edition for RCC).
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MyLabsPlus at the bookstore or on-line. If you are using financial aid, you must purchase access
at the RCC bookstore. This on-linemultimedia package contains the required on-line homework
assignments, your grade book and many wonderful resources to help you succeed in this class.
Temporary access is available. When you log in for the first time you will be given the option to
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Deadline to add or drop a class & receive a full refund: January 18
Deadline to withdraw or change to audit: March 3
Term ends: March 24
Final grades available online at March 29
Course Description:
This is the first course in the transfer mathematics sequence for all science, mathematics, engineering and many liberal arts majors.
Chapter 2 (2.1, 2.2, 2.4): Linear Functions and Equations
Chapter 3 (3.1-3.3, 3.5): QuadraticFunctions and Equations
Chapter 4 (4.1-4.8): More Nonlinear Functions and Equations
Chapter 5 (5.1-5.7): Exponential and Logarithmic Functions
Chapter 9 (9.1, 9.3, 9.4): Systems of Equations and Inequalities
Chapter 1/10 (1.2, 10.1, 10.2): Conic Sections
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● Tutoring Center: G121, 245-7700
See MLP “Tutoring Center Hours”
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Any student who feels that he or she may need academic accommodations for a disability, such
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Attendance:
Students are expected to attend ALL classes. Please be on time to class (that means ready to go
at 5:30) and do not plan to leave early unless you have talked with me first. If you find it necessary
to miss class, you are responsible for the missed material. Attendance is strongly encouraged!
If accident, illness, or other crisis interferes with completing the math course this quarter, it is recommendedyou drop the class by official withdrawal "W". Incompletes generally will not be given.
If 75% or more ofthe course work has been successfully completed, incompletes mightpossiblybe given for a special casethat is evaluated on an individual basis, but never in lieu of a poor grade.
Academic Integrity:
Cheating, plagiarism and other acts of academic dishonesty are regarded as serious offenses and
will be grounds for disciplinary action in accordance with the “Students’ Rights and Responsibilities” manual. These consequences include, but are not limited to, failure of assignment/test, failure of course, removal from class, and removal from the college. Academic honesty is not negotiable!
This means you need to keep your eyes on your own paper during a test and do your own assignments!
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● If you are tardy to class or need to leave early, please be discrete and enter or exit quietly.
● Please, please, pleaseturn offyour cell phones before entering the classroom.
If you must take or make a call, please leave the classroom.
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Grading Weights:
MyLabsPlus on-line Homework: 9%
Text Book Homework (These are turned in for grading.): 9%
MyLabsPlus on-line Quizzes: 9%
Tests & The Awesome Project: 73%
(The 5 chapter tests are each worth 11.23%, the final is worth 12.17%, and The Awesome Project is
worth 4.68%.)
Grading Scale:
A 90 -100%B+ 88 - 89%C+ 78 - 79%D+ 68 - 69%F 0 - 59% B 80 - 87% C 70 - 77% D 60 - 67%
TESTS MUST BE TAKEN AS SCHEDULED
If you are unable to attend class on the day of a test and you have a serious and compelling excuse a makeup test will be arranged for you to take in the TestingCenter. If you take the test in the TestingCenterbefore the next scheduled class meeting your score will receive an automatic 10% reduction. If you make up the test after the following class meeting, your score will receive an automatic 20% reduction. If you do not make up the test within one week of the test date, you will receive 0%.
There are no re-takes and no extra credit. Do not ask for re-takes or extra credit.
This is what you will see when you log onto MyLabsPlus:
GRADEBOOK / Find your overall grade in the class, as well as grades forMLP Homework, MLP Quizzes,Book & Project Homework,
Chapter Tests and the Final. Check your grade regularly.
If you see anything you don’t understand, see me ASAP.
HOMEWORK / This is where you do your on-line homework. In the upper right-hand corner you will see “Question Help”. This contains “Help Me Solve This”, “Video”, “Animation”, “Textbook”, “Ask My Instructor” and “Print”
QUIZZES AND TESTS / This is where you take your on-line quizzes.
There are also sample tests and quizzes you may try for extra practice.
STUDY PLAN / Practice exercisesfor each section. These are not graded.
COURSE HOME
CLASS HAND OUTS / All class hand outs are located here. Print them if you miss a class!
GRAPH GRIDS / 5 sizes available for printing
TUTORING CENTER HOURS
TESTING CENTER HOURS
TESTING CENTER POLICIES
MULTIMEDIA LIBRARY / Select a chapter and a section and then check out:
Animations, Interactive Figure,
Online Textbook (Your Text Book)
Power Point Lessons
Section Video Lectures
CHAPTER CONTENTS / Student Solutions Manual:
Solutions to allodd-numbered Exercises and all answers to Reviews.
There is also extra practice for each section.
TOOLS FOR SUCCESS / Includes:
Review
Graphing Calculator Help
Activities & Projects
PEARSON TUTOR SERVICES / On line help
MLP Homework & Quiz & Book Homework Info
MyLabsPlus Homework:
HW due by 5:30 P.M. on the dates indicated. See the calendar.
If you work on an assignment past the due date, 20% of the score earned on the late problems
will be deducted each day. Exception: the last MLP assignment must be completed by March 21.
You must get the correct answer by the 3rd try to receive credit for a problem.(If there are fewer than 4 choices,you only get 2 tries.) If you click on “Help Me Solve This”, you will receive a new problem after the help. If you get a problem marked incorrect, you can click on “Similar Problem” and start over. You get 2chances to get a “Similar Problem”. (So, you can get up to 3 different problems to try.) Once you open an assignment, you may open the PRINT buttonon the right and print a particular problem or the entire assignment. Make sure you hit the SAVE button so you can return to the same exercises after you work the problems out on paper. You can then enter the answers on line. This makes for agreat review sheet (especially for the MLP Quizzes).You can wave your mouse over any answer marked incorrect and you will see the correct answer and the answer you gave.
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MyLabsPlusQuizzes:
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These are to be taken after all the MLP homework is completed in the sections covered by the quiz. You have a 1-hour session (which can not be broken up) for each quiz and each quiz has 8 questions. You may use your book and any notes you have. You may take each quiz twice and the higher of the 2 grades will be recorded in your MLP gradebook. You can click on “Help Me Solve This” as many times as you want for any given problem and get a new problem, but you only have one chance to input an answer. After the quiz is completed you can wave your mouse over any answer marked incorrect and you will see the correct answer and the answer you gave.
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Book Homework:
HW due by5:30 P.M. on the dates indicated. See the calendar.
Any late Book Homework will result in a score reflecting a 10% deduction for each class meeting that it is late. Each student may turn in no more than one late book homework.
All “reasonable” WORK must be shown on Book Homework to receive credit.
Show your work algebraically (symbolically). A calculator may be used for numerical calculations.
Make sure you ANSWER ALL THE PARTS of a question: explain, compare, interpret, give the point on the graph, what do you notice? Etc. GRAPHS must be on GRAPHPAPER.
Please LABEL ANSWERS with appropriate units to receive full credit.
Sometimes you have to “look around” for the directions, associated graphs and pictures for problems in the book. These may be above, to the left or to the right of the problem or on the previous page.
If you need help in working an even numbered problem, you’ll often find a similar odd numbered problem in the book right before it and you can check out the student solution manual for help located in the “Chapter Contents” in MLP.
Getting help from me or another student is GOOD! Just make sure your homework is your own!
Math 111 Calendar (subject to change)
Week / Tuesday / Thursday1 / 1/10
Chp 2 Highlights (2.1) / 1/12
Chp 2 Highlights (2.1, 2.2, 2.4)
2 / 1/17
3.1, 3.2 / 1/19
#1 MLP HW & QUIZ & BOOK HW Due 5:30
3.2
TEST #1 (2.1, 2.2, 2.4)
3 / 1/24
3.3, 3.5 / 1/26
4.1, 4.2
4 / 1/31
#2 MLP HW & QUIZBOOK HW Due 5:30
4.3
TEST #2 (3.1-3.3, 3.5) / 2/2
4.3, 4.4
5 / 2/7
#3 MLP HW & QUIZBOOK HW Due 5:30
4.5, 4.6 / 2/9
4.7, 4.8
6 / 2/14
#4 MLP HW & QUIZBOOK HW Due 5:30
5.1
Chp 4 Test Practice / 2/16
#5 MLP HW & QUIZBOOK HW Due 5:30
5.1
TEST #3 (4.1-4.8)
7 / 2/21
5.2, 5.3 / 2/23
5.3, 5.4
8 / 2/28
#6MLP HW & QUIZBOOK HW Due 5:30
5.5, 5.6 / 3/2
#7 MLP HW & QUIZ & BOOK HW Due 5:30
5.7, 10.1
TEST #4 (Chp 5, Part 1 - no calculator)
9 / 3/7
1.2
#8MLP HW & QUIZBOOK HW Due 5:30
TEST #4 (5.1- 5.7) / 3/9
10.2
10 / 3/14
9.1 / 3/16
#9MLP HW & QUIZBOOK HW Due 5:30
9.3
TEST #5 (1.2, 10.1, 10.2)
11 / 3/21
9.4
#10 MLP HW (No Quiz) & BOOK HW Due 5:30
Final Review / 3/23
AWESOME PROJECT Due 5:30
FINAL
MLPHomework & Quizzes & Book Homework
Please use graph grids for graphs.
Homework & Quizzes / Due Date#1 / MLP HW & QUIZ: 2.1, 2.2, 2.4
BOOK HW:
2.1 Page 80
#9
13 (give an exact decimal or fraction for the slope. You can’t leave a decimal
in a fraction – see last page of 2.1 notes)
35, 41, 54, 55, 63
108ac (use regression & round the numbers you get to the hundredths)
2.2 Page 99
#25, 33
2.4 Page 127
#3 (use algebra, not regression)
17abcd (use t and )
35abcd / Thursday
Jan 19
5:30
#2 / MLP HW & QUIZ: 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.5
BOOK HW:
3.1 Page 167
#23 (be sure to find the value of “a”)
37 (use complete the square)
45ab (use the vertex formula for (a))
85, 97abc
101ab(show algebra work for (b))
3.2 Page 183
#61 (use complete the square)
106 (Check your notes: If an object isthrown downward then the initial
velocity is a negative number. Use the quadratic formula)
111(you’ll need to use factoring or the quadratic formula)
3.3 Page 195
#75 (give the exact answer – answer will have a radical)
3.5 Use the 3.5 Homework Sheet / Tuesday
Jan 31
5:30
Please use graph grids for graphs.
Homework & Quizzes / Due Date#3 / MLP HW & QUIZ: 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
BOOK HW:
4.1 Page 238
#91abc (you need to give 2 intervals for (c)),
97ab
4.2 Page 253
#21abc (just “look” at the graph on your calculator-you don’t have
to draw it. Give eachy-value to the nearest thousandth)
71, 79abc
4.3 Page 266
#15 (use synthetic division-note the missing term)
25 (use long division);
49 (please do 2 things: (a) synthetic divide and circle the remainder;
(b) find f(-2).
You should get the same answers for (a) & (b), right?)
51 / Tuesday
Feb 7
5:30
#4 / MLP HW & QUIZ: 4.4, 4.5, 4.6
BOOK HW:
4.4 Page 278
#9
23 (show work to find the value of “a”–see 4.4 Notes, page 8, 2nd example),
56abc (do this withouta calculator),
57ab ((a) listall the possible rational zeros (p/q) and use thecalculator to list
the 3 actual zeros
(b) Give the factored form of ),
63ab ((a) listall the possible rational zeros (p/q) and use the calculator to list
the 1 actual zero. Use synthetic division to find the other 2 zeros
(b) Give the factored form of )
4.5 Page 288
#17a
22 (give exact answers),
4.6 Page 302
#15, 23, 25, 29
*** Asymptotes are equations for lines, so make sure you answer with
x = & y = / Tuesday
Feb 14 5:30
Please use graph grids for graphs.
Homework & Quizzes / Due Date#5 / MLP HW & QUIZ: 4.7, 4.8
BOOK HW:
4.7 Page 317
#21, 23, 29abc
49 (graph on your calculator and note that the
zeros are 1, 2, -2. Use this to solve )
111 (Do this: write an inverse variation equation using R and d; find the
value of k; answer the question)
4.8 Page 333
#53, 65, 85
LOOK OVER #1-102. YOU ARE EXPECTED TO KNOW HOW TO SOLVE
ALL OF THESE TYPES OF EQUATIONS. / Thursday
Feb 16
5:30
#6 / MLP HW & QUIZ: 5.1, 5.2
BOOK HW:
5.1 Page 359
#15bd, 23cd, 63ab, 67ab, 107ab
5.2 Use the 5.2 Homework Sheet / Tuesday
Feb 28
5:30
#7 / MLP HW & QUIZ: 5.3, 5.4
BOOK HW:
5.3 Page 393
#39, 75, 77
91ab: use the last page of your 5.3 notes for guidance.
Use (0, .72) to find C and use (20, 1.6) to find a. Do you seewhere these
points come from? Round a to the thousandths and the answer to (b) to the
hundredths. This is practice for the bonus on the chapter 5 test.
103
5.4 Use the 5.4 Homework Sheet / Thursday
March 2
5:30
#8 / MLP HW & QUIZ: 5.5, 5.6
BOOK HW:
5.5 Page 421
#21, 47, 67
5.65.7 Use the 5.6 & 5.7 Homework Sheet / Tuesday
March 7
5:30
Please use graph grids for graphs.
#9 / MLP HW & QUIZ: 10.1, 1.2, 10.2BOOK HW:
Use the #9 Homework Sheet / Thursday
March 16
5:30
#10 / MLP HW (No QUIZ): 9.1 & 9.3
BOOK HW:
9.1 Page 714
#95, 123ab,
129abc ((a): write 2 equations using 2 variables. Use substitution or
elimination to find the width and length. Label each answer.
(b) & (c) are from chapter 3. The maximum area is at the vertex of the
parabola representing the quadratic equation you have in (b)
Use the vertex formula to find the max area.)
141 (write a joint variation equation; find the exact value of k - there will be
9 numbers after the decimal; use this value to find the exact value of
the answer and label)
9.3 Page 736
#36 (show work using elimination and/or substitution. Label each answer.) / Tuesday
March 21
5:30
AWESOME PROJECT / Thursday
March 23
5:30