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Course Learning Outcomes
Course Materials
Assignments
Exams
Grading
Course Policies
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What You Should Already Know
Before beginning this course,you should have taken ALG 043, a full year pre-algebra, or its equivalent.
Course Learning Outcomes
You will be expected to demonstrate mastery of the following outcomes throughout your study in this course:
1.Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
2.Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
3.Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
4.Model with mathematics.
5.Use appropriate tools strategically.
6.Attend to precision.
7.Look for and make use of structure.
8.Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.
You should keep these eight primary outcomes in mind as you complete this or any math course.This course's specific outcomes will help you to expand on principles you learned in previous math courses.After successful completion of the course you will be able to do the following:
1.Solve,analyze,and graph linearequations and functions.
2.Solve,analyze,and graph systems of linear equations and inequalities.
3.Define and classify angles and perform calculations based on angle measurement.
4.Use mathematical reasoning to prove and analyze conjectures, postulates and theorems.
5.Prove properties of parallel lines.
6.Find sums of arithmetic and geometric series.
Course Materials
There is no textbook for this course.The course content is all you will need.A physical calculatoris required when taking exams.A graphing calculatoris recommended, but not required.
Assignments
Each unit is broken into lessons based on learning outcomes.Each lesson has content foryou to study and is followed by small,non-graded self checks that will help you determine how well you are learning the material.The self checks draw questions from huge question banks;they will be your best review and practice tool.
Unit Quizzes
Unit quizzes are assessments you will complete at the end of each unit. There are also two review quizzes covering all of the concepts from the preceding lessons. These assignments are open-book quizzes. Since this is a mastery-based, course you may take the unit quiz as many times as you want and your highest score will be recorded.
Show Your Work Assignments
You will be required to show your work orjustify your answers for some problems in the assignments and on the exam.Your work will be reviewed for partial credit,and your grade will be updated when applicable.For partial credit,you must show your work in the space provided.
Essay Assignments
At midcourse and at the end of your course,you will complete an essay assignment.In these assignments,you will be required to describe your strategies and reasoning for various mathematical principles.
Providing correct answers is not the goal of the essay assignments; yourideas and reasoning are much more important,as reflected in the rubric.Please take the time to explain your thought process and steps for solving the problems.
Explorations
This course includes exploration activities in select units.An exploration is a chance foryou to interact with your teacher and other students in the course about specific topics.
We highly encourage you to complete the explorations as you reach them.They are designed to use the skills you've already learned to set up the skills that you're going to study in later lessons.In other words, you’ll do betterin the course if you complete the explorations as you get to them.
Discussion Board Explorations
Explorations involving discussion boards consist of two parts:
1.An observation portion that requires you to apply the skills you have learned to a relevant problem.
2.A graded discussion of the exploration's ideas.Afteryou have gathered the information,you will join other students and your teacher/TA in a discussion of concepts from the exploration in a discussion-board format.You'll be required to post your answers into the discussion board.
There is also a summary page for the big idea behind the exploration that you can use as a review tool
Quiz Explorations
Quiz explorations ask you to record data and answer questions based on your observations.
Exams
After completing the lessons,you will take the final exam.As noted,the final exam is comprehensive—in other words,it covers all material in this course.It consists of about forty to fifty questions,very much like those in the questions in the unit quizzes.
For more information,see the Final Exam Preparation section after the last unit.
Grading
Your grade in this course will be based on these assignments and exams:
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AsSIGNMENT OR ExAM
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GRADING
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PERCENT OF ToTAL GRADE
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8 Unit Quizzes
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Computer
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32%
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8 Show-Your Work Assignments
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Instructor
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8%
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2 Review Quizzes
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Computer
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10%
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2 Essay Assignments
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Instructor
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15%
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4 Explorations
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Instructor
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15%
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1 Proctored Final Exam*
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Computer
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20%
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*You must pass the final exam with at least a 60%to earn credit for the Course.
Grade Scale
Your letter grade is calculated according to these percentages.
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A
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100%-93%
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A-
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92%-90%
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B+
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89%-87%
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B
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86%-83%
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B-
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82%-80%
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C+
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79%-77%
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C
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76%-73%
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C-
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72%-70%
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D+
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69%-67%
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D
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66%-63%
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D-
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62%-60%
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E(fail)
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59%-0%
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