Please note that the following schedule is for the in-class sessions of the course. These items are to be presented in class during the expected 135 minute class period. Students are expected to confirm and deepen their understanding of the various topics during their on-line time for that same week.
| Week |
Day and Date | Topics and Activities Scheduled for Face-to-Face Class |
| 1 | Wednesday Feb. 19 |
Rules of the Road (i.e., policies and grading for the course).
Schedule of the course. Requirements of the course.
Preparing for tests. Taking tests in class and in the testing center.
How to use the web sites: Khan Academy, pencasts,
other web pages, textbook. Module 1: Order of operations. What it means to evaluate an expression given as variables. Implicit multiplication. |
| 2 | Wednesday Mar. 5 |
Module 2: Numeric representations; rational numbers as fractions and decimals,
converting from one form to the other, approximations as opposed to infinite repeating values,
irrational numbers, convenient irrationals such as square roots
and cube roots, special irrational numbers,
π and e. Prepare for test #1. |
| 3 | Wednesday Mar. 12 |
Test #1 (60 minutes): covers Modules 1 and 2. Module 3: Modular operations. Finding the GCF and LCM: the Euclidean Algorithm. Factorials, permutations, and combinations. |
| 4 | Wednesday Mar. 19 |
Module 4: Number bases: representations, place value, conversion to and from base ten, binary, octal, hexadecimal, conversions within those three, dot notation. |
| 5 | Wednesday Mar. 26 |
Test #2 (60 minutes): covers Modules 3 and 4. Module 5: Boolean logic, "and", "or", "not", "xor", symbols for same, truth tables, expressions. |
| 6 | Wednesday Apr. 2 |
Module 6: Subscripts in math sequences, series, expressions;
matrices and subscripts via row and column. Linearizing matrix subscripts.
Higher dimension arrays and subscripts. Module 7: Introduction to sets. |
| 7 | Wednesday Apr. 9 |
Test #3 (60 minutes): covers Modules 5 and 6.
Finish sets: set membership, subsets, intersection, union, compliment, Venn diagrams, cardinality. Module 8:Introduce functions and cover operations on functions, composition of functions. |
| 8 | Wednesday Apr. 16 |
Module 9: Descriptive statistics, types of values, mean, median, mode, range,
frequencies, grouping,
quartile points,
percentiles, standard deviation and variance. Linear regression and correlation
as concepts, not for computation.
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| 9 | Wednesday Apr. 23 |
Test #4 (60 minutes): covers Modules 7, 8, and 9. Review for the final. |
| 10 | Wednesday Apr. 30 |
Final Exam (135 minutes). |