Precalculus

Course description
This course covers basic algebraic and trigonometric skills, graphing algebraic and transcendental functions and Analytic Trigonometry.

Prerequisites: In termediate Algebra and Trigonometry (MAT 056) or the equivalent with the department approval.

Required Text
Precalculus, seventh edition; Roland E. Larson & Robert P. Hostetler; Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, Massachusetts, 2004.

Academic Adjustment for Students with Disabilities
Students with disabilities who require reasonable accommodations or academic adjustments for this course must contact the Office of services for Students with Disabilities (Room N769, 220-8180). BMCC is committed to providing equal access to all programs and curricula to all students.

Requirement of Students
Students should check for new announcements on a daily basis. Your attendance to the class session is based on the time that you log in to the course page (minimum two times per week).
Students should always check for new assignments on a weekly basis, read the relevant sections of the textbook and try to understand the sample problems given in each section. They should be prepared to work out the practice problems in the text, sample problems in the lecture notes, and solve the assignment questions between lectures to develop a better understanding of the material.

Class Policies
Attendance
Your attendance takes place 100% on the CUNY Portal web site. You must check the announcements and assignments at least two times per week

Late Assignments
Plan well ahead and submit all your work (quizzes, assignments, discussion postings) on time. One point will be deducted for each day late of any assignment.

Homework Help Discussion Board
Please try to be an active participant in this ‘ Homework Help Forum” throughout the semester. You check this forum daily, ask questions, answer questions, and make suggestion in this forum. You will receive extra credit points for participating in this forum.

Evaluation of Students
Quizzes
There will be a lecture quiz at the end of each Chapter. Study the chapter material very thoroughly before you attempt the quiz. Take all the chapter quizzes online in a timely fashion. A missed quiz will be recorded as a zero grade . You may do the quizzes as many times as you want before you submit the final result. Each time, you will get an instant feed back from the Blackboard for your work. There will be also deadline for final submission by way of time and date for each quiz.

Assignments
There will be a set off assigned homework problems each week. The due date is very important. All the homework assignments need to be submitted into the Digital -Drop- Box on or before the due date. Solutions will be posted and the homework assignments will not be accepted after the solution is posted.

This class has the fol lowing kinds of assignments

1. Discussion questions
The discussion questions will be posted each week under the Discussion board button on main course menu. Before submitting your first discussion board, read about how to submit your discussion board by clicking here.

Post your first response to the discussion board by the first discussion board deadline. Read all other student posts before the final deadline and use the idea either to correct your own post or if you feel the other student is making an error, politely point out the mistake. Make sure you respond to students and professor questions and comments on your post.

2. Weekly Assignments: Each week you will be assigned specific problems from your textbook. Before submitting your first homework assignment read carefully the instructions for submitting the homework. Finish all the online homework on time.

3. Technology Assignment: Students are expected to do mathematical projects using technology - either a graphing calculator or computer software.

Examinations
Midterm & Final
The midterm and Final exam will be in-class exam during the middle of the semester and the final week of the semester The questions will be in Microsoft Word Format. Students are required to bring their own calculator and take the exam during the allotted time and day.

Final Grade
The final grade will be will be determined in the following manner.
Student Online Participation (virtual attendance and online discussion 10 %)
Lecture Quizzes (20%)
Assignments (weekly homework 20%)
Technology Assignment (10%)
Midterm & Final (40%)

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