BURLINGTON COUNTY COLLEGE

 

Instructor:                  (Mrs.) Diane Veneziale

Course:                       Math 095 – Intermediate Algebra

Text:                              Intermediate Algebra: Graphs and Functions, Third Edition, plus free HM³ CD-Rom + free SMARTHINKING, by Ron Larson, Robert Hostetler, Carolyn Neptune, 2003, Houghton Mifflin Company, ISBN: 0-618-28103-7

 

Course description:            This course is designed to prepare students of developmental

                                    mathematics to make the transition from elementary algebra

                                    to the college level mathematics courses.  Topics include graphs and transformations of functions, linear and absolute value equations and inequalities, systems of linear equations and inequalities in two variables, radicals and complex numbers, quadratic functions, equations and inequalities, and rational expressions and graphing rational functions.

 

Required Materials             Textbook, as listed above.

for Instruction:            

Calculator:  a scientific or graphing calculator may be used throughout the course during classroom discussions only. Its use

 is NOT permitted on any test or final.

                                   

Course Syllabus (in the college store)

 

Optional Materials:            Student Solutions Guide by Carolyn F. Neptune

                                   

Instructional Videotapes/DVDs by Dana Mosely (located in both

                                                    the Pemberton  and TEC libraries)

HM³ Tutorial CD-Rom (Windows)

 

SMARTHINKING.com Live, On-Line Tutoring

 

Attendance:                Attendance is taken at all class meetings.  Please refer to the

                                    Burlington County College catalog for details of the college’s

                                    policy and specifically your instructor for his/her policy.

 

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 five tests (each worth 100 points), and the final exam. There are NO make-up tests nor any retests given.  There are five (5) tests – one each on Units I, II, III, IV, and V.  Each test will be graded using the following scale:

 

                                    The final exam, to be administered during exam week, MUST be

                                    passed with a score of 70% or better.  There are 40 problems 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 (which must be at least 70%), and dividing this sum

                                    by six will compute the final test average. The letter grades

listed in the scale above will be used to determine the course grade.

 

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/