BURLINGTON COUNTY COLLEGE

 

 

Instructor:                  (Mrs.) Diane Veneziale

 

Course:                       Math 112: College Algebra

 

Textbook:                   College Algebra: A Graphing Approach, Fourth Edition, plus free HMmathSpace Tutorial CD-Rom + free SMARTHINKING, by Ron Larson, Robert Hosteller, and Bruce Edwards, 2005, Houghton Mifflin Company, ISBN: 0-618-51551-8

                       

Course Description:             This course is designed to prepare students for the upper level college mathematics courses. Topics include graphs and transformations of functions, inverse and combinations of functions, solving linear and absolute value equations and inequalities, quadratic equations, polynomial equations, polynomial, rational, exponential, and logarithmic functions and their graphs.

 

Required Materials             Textbook, as listed above.

for Instruction:            

Calculator:  a graphing calculator may only be used in classroom discussions. Its use is NOT permitted on any test or final.

                                   

Course Syllabus (in the college store)

 

Optional Materials:            Study and  Solutions Guide by Bruce H. Edwards

                                   

Instructional Videotapes/DVDs by Dana Mosely (located in both

                                                    the Pemberton  and TEC libraries)

HMmathSpace Tutorial CD-Rom

 

SMARTHINKING.com Live, On-Line Tutoring

 

Attendance Policy:            Students are required to attend all classes. Promptness is also required. If a class is missed, the student is held responsible for the full requirements of that class. Prior arrangements must be made if a test will be missed, otherwise the grade earned is a zero.  Certainly a phone call or e-mail on the day of a missed test is acceptable to make other arrangements.  If a student misses the final exam, he/she will not be permitted a make-up exam unless there is a documented emergency.

Assignments:              Students are required to complete all assignments given, due on the next class meeting. The instructor will check for completion, not accuracy, of assignments as she deems necessary. All work must be shown to receive credit! If you arrive late to class and the assignment was checked and is already being gone over, the student will not earn any credit for that assignment.  Students are also responsible for all lecture notes and any assignments missed during their absence from class.

Grading Policy:            Grades will be based on four tests (each worth 100 points), and the final exam. There are NO make-up tests nor any retests given.  There are four (4) tests – one each on Units I, II, III, and IV.  Each test will be graded using the following scale:

                                               

The final exam will be administered during exam week. There are 40 multiple-choice questions on the exam.

 

                                    The course grade will be determined from the final test average.    

                                    Adding the percent grades for each test, along with the score for

the final exam, and dividing this sum by five will compute the final test average. The letter grades listed in the scale above will be used to determine the course grade.

 

Grades of “I” or “X” are assigned at the discretion of the instructor.

 

Extra Help:                 Please make prior arrangements with me for help, and/or help is

                                    available in either math lab.  The labs are located in the Academic                                       building in Pemberton, room 201, and in the library at the TEC

                                    Center in Mt. Laurel.  Times will be announced, as well as posted.

                                    Student tutors are also available by contacting Mickey Weller at

                                    ext.7495, at no charge.

 

Phone/e-mail:            You may leave a message at either 609.894.9311 or 856.222.9311,

extension 6517 (soon to be changed to ext. 1515).  My office is located in the Academic building in Pemberton, room 324.  My

e-mail is dvenezia@bcc.edu and my homepage can be accessed at http://staff.bcc.edu/dveneziale/