| Course Title:
| Intermediate Algebra with Geometry
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| Credit Hours:
| 5
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| Prerequisites:
| Grade of C or better in Mathematics 110, or
placement test, or consent
of department chair.
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| Section:
| 99 BC
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| Class Meets:
| Monday, Wednesday 9:30 AM - 11:55 AM
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| Class Room:
| 3140
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| Instructor:
| Marta Hidegkuti
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| Home Page:
| http://www.martahidegkuti.com
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| Office:
| Room 3810
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| e-mail:
| mhidegkuti@ccc.edu
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| Mail box:
| #143 (in Room 1428)
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| Contact
information:
| At all times, email is the fastest and most
efficient method to contact
the instructor. If you wish to contact the
instructor about grades or attendance
or other administrative issues please use email.
When e-mailing,
please use your CCC student account.
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| Office Hours:
| Monday 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM in Room 3810
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| Tuesday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM in Room 3810
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| Saturday 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM in the Tutoring Center (L129) Sign up!
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| | or by appointment
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| Tutoring Center:
| The Tutoring Center is located in
room L129.
Students are encouraged to seek
help and guidance during the course.
Students have already paid for this service
as part of tuition fees. The only catch is that
students
need to make an appointment to take
advantage of this free service. In addition to
the office hours
listed above, the instructor will have regularly
scheduled appointments there, Saturdays 10:00 AM - 12:00 Noon.
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| Textbook:
| Beginning and Intermediate Algebra; fourth
edition;
R. David Gustafson
and Peter D. Frisk; Brooks/Cole Thompson
Learning, 2005
ISBN Number: 0-534-46377-0
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| Calculator:
| The use of a scientific calculator is strongly
recommended.
The optional calculator is the TI-30X II S. The
price of this model is
between $15 and $20, so do NOT purchase a
different calculator
if it is significantly more expensive.
On quizzes and exams, students are not
allowed to
use a graphing calculator. Before
purchasing a calculator,
consult the instructor first. It is not true
that the more expensive machine you buy, the
easiest it is to use
for the purpose of this course.
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| Attendance Policy:
| Regular attendance is expected of all students
in the course.
Attendance will be taken each class period.
Students are also expected to
be on time and to attend the entire session. If
you arrive after
attendance has been taken, check at the end of
class that your attendance
record has been corrected. If you are absent,
you are responsible for all
work and assignments covered in the session that
day.
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| Grading for Midterm:
| If the Midterm Exam (same as Exam 3) is
below 70%, a D or F will be given as midterm grade.
If the midterm exam is at least 70%, the midterm grade
will be the
weighted average of the six grades shown below with
their weights.
- Exam 1 - 20%
- Exam 2 - 25%
- Exam 3 (Midterm Exam) - 25%
- Homework assignments - 15%
- Quizzes - 15%
- Extra Credit Assignment - 5%
Before determining the grade given for Quizzes,
the lowest quiz
score will be
dropped.
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| Grading for Final:
| If the Final Exam (same as Exam 5) is
below 70%, a D or F will be given as final grade.
If the final exam is at least 70%, then the final
grade will be the
weighted average of the eight grades shown below with
their weights.
- Exam 1 - 10%
- Exam 2 - 15%
- Exam 3 (Midterm Exam) - 15%
- Exam 4 - 10%
- Exam 5 (Final Exam) - 20%
- Homework assignments - 15%
- Quizzes - 15%
- Extra Credit Assignment - 5%
Before determining the grade given for Quizzes, the
two lowest quiz scores will be
dropped.
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| Homework:
| The homework is the most essential
part of the learning
process; do not
expect to do well in this course without keeping
up with the homework.
There will be a homework assignment due at
almost every session. Homework is
expected to be turned in at the beginning of
class, stapled,
written neatly and legibly, on graph paper.
Please do not ask the
instructor for a stapler.
To earn a full credit, always show all work. A
solution turned in without work shown will
receive a maximum of 20%
credit.
Since the instructor is going to be grading more
than one hundred papers
a week write as legibly as possible and circle
your final answers. Homework
assignments will consist of problem sets. If
the assignment to be
turned in consists of more more than one problem set,
they should be stapled separately.
Within a problem set please present the
problems in the order they
were assigned.
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| Grading:
| The grading of all assignments, quizzes, and
exams will be based on
the following scale.
| 90-100
| A
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| 80-89
| B
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| 70-79
| C
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| 60-69
| D
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| 0-59
| F
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| Important Dates:
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- First day of class : January 17, Wednesday
- Last day to register : January 20, Saturday
- Exam 1 : January 31, Wednesday
- Holiday - No Class: February 12, Monday
- Exam 2 : Febr 19, Monday
- Exam 3 (Midterm Exam): March 7, Wednesday
- Exam 4: April 11, Wednesday
- Spring Break: April 2 - 7
- Last day to widthdraw from classes: April 16, Monday
- Exam 5 (Final Exam): May 9, Wednesday
- End of Semester: May 12, Saturday
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| Makeup Policy:
| Without exception, there will be no making
up quizzes. To make
up an exam, the student must notify the
instructor in advance. Makeup exams
will be different from the regular exams.
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| General:
| Before arriving to class, please
turn
off all cell phones, pagers, or other loud
devices. Please try to arrive on time.
Please refrain from talking while the instructor
is lecturing. If you need
an extensive review (for example, due to
absence) of material presented in
class, please see the instructor during office
hours. Valuable class time
cannot not be spent on assisting one or a few
students to the detriment of
the entire class. Office hours are designated to
address these problems.
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| Academic Integrity:
| Any incident of academic dishonesty
may result in actions
from assigning a grade of F for the entire course to expulsion from
the college. For further
information, please refer to the Student
Handbook. |