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What You Should Already Know

Before beginning this course,you should have taken ALG 043,a full year pre-algebra,or  its  equivalent.

Learning Outcomes

You will be expected to demonstrate mastery of the following outcomes throughout your study in this course:

1.Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.

2.Reason abstractly and quantitatively.

3.Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.

4.Model  with  mathematics.

5.Use appropriate tools strategically.

6.Attend to precision.

7.Look for and make use of structure.

8.Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

You should keep these eight primary outcomes in mind as you complete this or any math course.This course’s specific outcomes will help you to expand on principles you learned in previous math courses.After successful completion of the course you will be able to do the following:

1.Solve,analyze,and graph linear equations and functions.

2.Solve,analyze,and graph systems of linear equations and inequalities.

3.Define and classify angles and perform calculations based on angle measurement.

4.Use mathematical reasoning to prove and analyze conjectures, postulates and theorems.

5.Prove properties of parallel lines.

6.Find sums of arithmetic and geometric series.

Course Materials

There is no textbook for this course.The course content is all you will need.A graphing calculator is recommended,but not required.

Course Organization

Each unit is broken into lessons based on learning outcomes. Each lesson has content foryou to study and is followed by small,non-graded self checks that will help you determine how well you are learning the material.The self checks draw questions from huge question banks;they will be your best review and practice tool.

Assignments

Unit Quizzes

Unit quizzes are assessments you will complete at the end of each unit. There are also two review quizzes covering all of the concepts from the preceding lessons.These assignments are open-book quizzes.Since this is a mastery-based,course you may take the unit quiz as many times as you want and your highest score will be recorded.

Show Your Work Assignments

You will be required to show your work orjustify your answers for some problems in the assignments and on the exam.Your work will be reviewed for partial credit,and your grade will be updated when applicable.For partial credit,you must show your work in the space   provided.A rubric for how your work will be graded for this activity is included in the Course Policies page in the orientation folder.

Essay Assignments

At midcourse and at the end of your course,you will complete an essay assignment.In these assignments,you will be required to describe your strategies and reasoning for various mathematical principles.

Providing correct answers is not the goal of the essay assignments; your ideas and reasoning are much more important,as reflected in the rubric.Please take the time to explain your thought process and steps  for solving the problems.A rubric for this activity is included in the Course Policies page in the orientation folder.

Explorations and Orientation

This course includes exploration activities in select units.An exploration is a chance for you to interact with your teacher and other students in the course about specific topics.Each exploration is worth an equal amount,and all the explorations together account for 15%of your final grade.We highly encourage you to complete the explorations as you reach them.They are designed to use the skills you've already learned to set up the skills that you’re going to study in later lessons. In other words,you’ll do better in the course if you complete the explorations as you get to them.There are two types of explorations in this course,Discussion Board type,and live meeting type:

Discussion Board Explorations

Explorations involving discussion boards consist of three parts:

1.A graded exploration assignment.This assignment requires you to apply the skills you have learned to a relevant problem and submit it for grading.

2.A graded discussion of the exploration'sideas.Afteryou have

submitted your exploration assignment,you will join other students and your teacher/TA in a discussion of concepts from the exploration in a discussion-board format.You'll be required to post your answers from the exploration assignment into the discussion board.Half the points from this assignment are awarded when you post your work,and you earn the other half of your points by critiquing the work of other students.See the rubric below for details.

3.A summary of the big idea behind the exploration.This section will contain a summary of the exploration and will aid you as a review tool.This section is not graded.

A rubric for this activity is included in the Course Policies page in the orientation  folder.

Live Explorations

Live explorations consist of two parts:

1.You will be given some questions to work through and then a

location where you will meet with other students and your teacher/TA to discuss both your approach as well as your peers'.

You willneed to be prepared to discuss,solve,and show all of your work on the questions.Inside each exploration is a link to the schedule for these meetings.

2.A summary of the big idea behind the exploration.This section will contain a summary of the exploration and will aid you as a review tool.This section is not graded.

A rubric for this activity is included in the Course Policies page in the orientation folder.

Exams

After completing the lessons,you will take the final exam.As noted,the final exam is comprehensive—in other words,it covers all material in this course.It consists of about forty to fifty questions,very much like those in the questions in the unit quizzes.

For more information,see the Final Exam Preparation section after the last  unit.

Other Resources

There is a course discussion board at the end of the course,as well as a course wiki.The discussion board is designed foryou to connect, discuss course-related matters,and share ideas with your peers.The wiki is designed for the instructor to post information that may provide enrichment or relevant information for the course to you.

Grading

The following tables show the grading breakdown and grading scale for this  course:

Graded Event

Weight

Quantity

Total

Unit Quizzes

4%

8

32%

Show-Your Work Assignments

1%

8

8%

Review Quizzes

Midcourse

5%

1

10%

End of Course

5%

1

Essay Assignment

Midcourse

7%

1

15%

End of Course

8%

1

Explorations

15%

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15%

Final Exam

20%

1

20%


Grading Scale

A

100%-93%

A-

92%-90%

B+

89%-87%

B

86%-83%

B-

82%-80%

C+

79%-77%

C

76%-73%


Grading Scale

C-

72%-70%

D+

69%-67%

D

66%-63%

D-

62%-60%

E(fail)

59%or below