Summer Syllabus 36140

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University of Central Oklahoma College Algebra Online summer 2014 course syllabus CRN 36140, 32548

Instructor: Dr. Michael McClendonOffice: MCS 148Phone: (405) 974 5251 FAX (405) 974 3847email: [email protected]

I. Course Description: College Algebra includes the study of complex numbers,equations and inequalities, graphing, functions, systems of equations,matrices, zeros of polynomials, and sequences.

II. Prerequisites: Intermediate Algebra and/or high school Algebra II

III. Course Objectives:

a. Develop a working knowledge of algebra necessary for application to other fields of study. b. Develop the necessary manipulative skills to study more advanced

mathematics and statistics.c. Serve as a preparatory course for calculus to benefit students whose high

school mathematics background are inadequate for this purpose.d. Continue to assist students in improving their abilities to read, to

understand, and to use mathematics.

IV. Student Objectives:a. Analyze functions and their graphs.

b. Sketch the graphs of functions including constant, linear, absolute value,square root, polynomial, exponential, and logarithmic equations.

c. Solve polynomial, exponential, and logarithmic equations.d. Solve systems of linear equations.e. Create mathematical models to solve application problems.f. Analyze numeric and algebraic patterns; generate numeric and algebraic

patterns.

VI. Grading PolicyThere will be 34 online homework sets for you to complete. In order to finish

one homework set and to move on to the next homework set, you must answer at least60% of the questions in each set correctly. If you answer a question incorrectly, you are(repeatedly) provided the opportunity to answer it (or a similar question) again. Therewill be three online exams and then there will be a final exam. Of the three exams, yourlowest grade will be dropped.

Your final grade will be calculated as below.

a. 30% of your grade will be your 3 exam grades. b. 45% of your grade will be your homework grades.c. 25% of your grade will be your final grade.


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d. The course grade will be A (for 90% - above cumulative), B (for 80%-89% cumulative), C (for 70% - 79% cumulative), D (for 60% - 69%cumulative) and F (for less than 60% cumulative).

VII. MyMathLab You do NOT need to purchase a textbook. You will need to purchase a

passcode from MyMathLab. MyMathLab is a where all of your assignmentsand exams will be located. You can receive instant help if you are ever stuckon a problem and you will receive immediate feedback when you submit anassignment. At this website, you will be granted access to the entire textbookfrom which the course is taught, also, and at a price significantly less than the

price of a textbook at the bookstore. So if you have already purchased atextbook, my advice is to return it now for a full refund and to use a portionof that money to register online at http://www.mymathlab.com . The course

ID for this class is mcclendon29895 . Let me know

immediately if you are having troubles registering.Furthermore, I would advise you to explore MyMathLab a little bit. It is aneasy to navigate website and there are a LOT of resources available with justthe click of your mouse. The assignments will appear as they becomeavailable. My advice is to work each assignment as soon as it becomesavailable, to not procrastinate . Otherwise you may miss a deadline and beunable to submit an assignment. Also note that the only assignments that youneed to do are those outlined in part XI below in this syllabus. Of course, ifyou would like to work extra assignments for your own practice and mastery,

by all means go ahead and do so.

Another important point - It may be the case that MyMathLab is on Easterntime, and Oklahoma is located in Central time. So if an assignment is due atmidnight, that really means that the assignment is due at 11 pm.

VIII. Email policiesIf you email me with a question or a request, I will respond in a timelymanner. If you miss an exam, email me and I will work with you in order todetermine a way to arrange for you to make it up. The same goes for missingan assignment. If you email me then please use the email:[email protected] .

IX. ExamsDuring the semester there will be three exams and then the final exam. Thefinal exam is a cumulative exam. The lowest exam grade will be dropped, butthe final exam grade will not be dropped. Please note that since the final is25% of your grade, then how you perform on the final can raise or lower yourfinal grade by two letter grades, that is, for example, it can take a D grade to aB grade or an A grade to a C grade. Be extra careful when you take your finalexam!


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You will be able to take each of the three exams up to three times. For eachexam, only your highest score will be counted. That is, for example, if youtake exam 2 one time then the score you earn will be your exam 2 grade. Ifyou take exam 2 twice, then the higher of the two scores will be your exam 2grade. If you take exam 2 three times, then the higher of the three scores will

be your exam 2 grade. This policy holds for all three exams.

You will only be able to take the final exam one time.

X. Difficultiesa. If you have any technical difficulties, I cannot help you. You must call

either our IT department at (405) 974 2255, or else call PearsonTechnical Support at (800) 677 6337.

b. You are the one who enrolled for an online class. It is up to you to makesure you can access everything online with your computer.

c. If you call our IT department, make sure you get the name of theindividual you talk to, so that if they cannot help you at least I might beable to follow up and get your problem fixed.

d. If you have any math related questions that you cannot get answered, then by all means write me an email or call me. I will get back to you veryquickly (no more than one day turnaround).


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XI. Assignment policiesThe due dates for each homework set and the due dates for each exam are

provided below.

Assignment Description of Section Objectives AvailableDate

Due Date

R this assignment reviews factoring and intervalnotation.

June 1 June 20

1.1 plotting points, determine whether an ordered pair is a solution of a given equation, find x- andy- intercepts, graph equations by plotting points,find distance between two points in the plane,find the midpoint of a segment in the plane,

equations of circles

June 1 June 20

1.2 determine whether a correspondence or a relationis a function, find function values, or outputs,using a formula or a graph, determine whether agraph is that of a function, find the domain andrange of a function

June 3 June 20

1.3 determine the slope of a line given two points onthe line, find the slope and y-intercept of a linegiven the equation y = mx + b, or f(x) = mx + b

June 4 June 20

1.4 determine equations of lines, given the equationsof two lines determine whether their graphs are

parallel or perpendicular

June 5 June 20

1.5 solve linear equations, find zeros of linearfunctions, solve a formula for a given variable

June 5 June 20

1.6 solve linear inequalities, solve compoundinequalities

June 9 June 20

2.1 graph functions, looking for intervals on whichthe function is in creasing, decreasing or constant,graph piecewise-defined functions

June 10 June 20

2.2 find the sum, the difference, the product, and thequotient of two functions, find the differencequotient for a function

June 11 June 20

2.3 find the composition of two functions and thedomain of the composition, decompose a functionas a composition of two functions

June 12 June 20

2.4 determine the symmetry of a graph, determinewhether a function is even, odd or neither, graphand work with a transformation of a function

June 12 June 20

exam 1 June 16 June 20


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3.1 perform computations involving complexnumbers

June 18 July 10

3.2 find zeros of quadratic functions and solvequadratic equations, solve equations that arereducible to quadratic, solve applied problems

using quadratic equations

June 19 July 10

3.3 find the vertex, the axis of symmetry and themaximum or minimum value of a quadraticfunction, graph quadratic functions, solve applied

problems involving maximum and minimumfunction values

June 19 July 10

3.4 solve rational equations, solve radical equations June 23 July 10

3.5 solve equations with absolute value June 24 July 10

4.1 determine the behavior of the graph of a

polynomial function using the leading-term test,factor polynomial functions and find their zerosand their multiplicities, graph a polynomialfunction, and find real-number zeros and relativemaximum and minimum values

June 25 July 10

4.2 graph polynomial functions, use the intermediatevalue theorem

June 26 July 10

4.3 perform long division with polynomials anddetermine whether one polynomial is a factor ofanother, use synthetic division, use the remaindertheorem to find a function value f(c), use the

factor theorem to solve an equation

June 26 July 10

4.4 find a polynomial with specified zeros, find therational zeros and the other zeros of a polynomialfunction, use descartes rule of signs

June 30 July 10

4.5 for a rational function, find the domain and graphthe function, identifying all of the asymptotes

July 1 July 10

4.6 solve polynomial and rational inequalities July 2 July 10

exam 2 July 3 July 10

5.1 determine whether a function is one-to-one, and if

it is, find a formula for its inverse, graph relationsand their inverses

July 7 July 21

5.2 graph exponential equations and exponentialfunctions

July 8 July 21

5.3 graph logarithmic functions, find commonlogarithms and natural logarithms with andwithout a calculator, convert between exponentialequations and logarithmic equations

July 8 July 21


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5.4 express logarithms as a sum, product, ordifference of logarithms, express sums, productsand differences of logarithms as a singlelogarithm, evaluate logarithms, simplifylogarithmic expressions

July 9 July 21

5.5 solve exponential equations July 10 July 21

exam 3 July 14 July 21

6.1 solve a system of two linear equations bygraphing, or by using the addition technique orthe substitution technique

July 16 July 29

6.2 solve a system of equations in three variables July 16 July 29

8.1 find terms of sequences given the nth term, lookfor a pattern in a sequence and try to determine a

general term, find partial sums, convert betweensigma notation and other notation for a series,construct terms of a recursively defined sequence

July 17 July 29

8.2 for an arithmetic sequence, find terms and thecommon difference, find the sum of the first nterms of an arithmetic sequence

July 21 July 29

8.3 identify the common ratio of a geometricsequence and find a term and the sum of the firstn terms, find the sum of an infinite geometricseries if it exists, given a repeating decimal findfractional notation

July 22 July 29

8.4 list the first few statements in a sequence, provestatements using mathematical induction July 23 July 29

8.7 expand a power of a binomial, perform binomialexpansion on complex numbers

July 24 July 29

final exam July 25 July 29

Note: In the table columns above, Available Date and Due Date , the first date is the datethat the section assignment becomes available online, so that the assignment for thesection cannot be completed before this date. The second date is the date that the sectionassignment becomes unavailable, so that the assignment for the section cannot be

completed after this date.

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