T.A.

MARRYSHOW COMMUNITY COLLEGE

SCHOOL – Arts Sciences and Professional Studies

DEPARTMENT-Natural Sciences

COURSE OUTLINE FORMAT

COURSE TITLE: College Mathematics Approved by Academic Board

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COURSE DESCRIPTION:A course in Number Theory, Consumer Arithmetic, Algebra and the Counting
Principle, for students who are not pursuing Mathematics as a major and need to improve their
mathematics skills to support their areas of concentration.

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GENERAL OBJECTIVES:There are four(4) general course objectives:

1. To provide students with a body of knowledge on number types and their relations to the real
number systems.
2. To develop students numeracy skills and to enhance their abilities to quantify and measure, with
and without the use of calculators. Students should also be able to extract pertinent information
from a problem and apply the correct formula in order to analyze and draw conclusions.
3. To foster a positive attitude to the abstract concepts of algebra by relating its topics to scenarios in
their areas of academic concentrations.

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 4. To promote an awareness of the principles of counting the number of ways in which an event can
occur; and to develop within students the ability to draw analysis from the value of the probability of
an event.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:

CONTENT:

Week 1

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Topic: Number Theory and the Real Number System

Students should be able to:

1. Define numbers and different number types; Natural, Whole, Integers, Rational,
Irrational, and Real numbers. Use set notation to define each.
2. Relate number types to real life scenarios.
3. Define and identify Prime and Composite Numbers.

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 4. Define the integer and manipulate the order of operation by using the
BOMDAS.rules; Also, to give examples of their application in real life.
5. Emphasize the difference between the Natural Number and the Integer, by use of a
number line.
6. Use the calculator to quantify the rational and the irrational number and thereafter
formulate class definitions for each.
7. Appreciate the infinitesimal property of the real numberand as well their other
properties.

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 8. Demonstrate through class discussions, their understandingof the real number
system’s ability to quantify all measurable entities in the real world.
9. Students will express decimals in scientific notation/standard form; these exercises
would be done with and without calculators.
10. Convert fractions to decimal using the long division method and to convert decimal to
fractions using place values.

Week 2

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Topic:Consumer Mathematics and Financial Management

1. Convert a fraction to a percentage and a percentage as a fraction.

2. Identify and extract existing variables and constants from word problems regarding
taxes and other deductions and apply the correct formulae to evaluate the variables.
3. Use the simple interest formula to manipulate the Principal, Time and Rate of a
particular period; calculate also the compound interest and the amount accruing by
using the correct formulae.

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Week 3

Topic: Algebra I

1. Simplify basic algebraic expressions and transpose formulae.

2. Apply the laws of indices to simplifying expressions.
3. Identify the exponential and logarithmic form of a function and to be able to convert
from one form to the other.

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Week 4

1. Perform algebraic expansions and to multiply polynomials of linear and higher

degrees, that is two, three and four bracket multiplication.
4. Identify the characteristics of linear algebraic expressionsand nonlinear algebraic
expressions and polynomials; identify as well their graphical interpretations.
5. Solvelinear equations.

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Week 5

6. Solve rational functions.

7. Solve linear inequalities in one variable.
8. Factorizealgebraic expressions using the theory of the Highest Common Factor for
simple and complexed expressions.

Week 6

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 9. Factorize the Quadratic Expression using the (ac) method.

Week 7

Topic: Algebra II

1. Factorize the perfect square and the difference of two squares for quadratics.
2. Define the linear graph in the form y  mx  c and to identify the parts of this
equation.
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 3. Define the gradient as the slope of the line and the tangent of the angle to the
horizontal;
4. Define the gradient as the change in y with respect to a change in x.
5. Discuss the concept of gradients within the realm of the differential of the function at
a point.
6. Calculating gradients using the standard gradient formula.
7. Identify negative and positive slopes.
8. Graph the straight line graph by using a table of given domain of values.
9. Graph the straight line graph by using the concept of intercepts and the gradient.

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 Week 8

10. Define the Quadratic Equation in the form ax 2  bx  c  0 .

11. Solve the quadratic Equation by factorization.
12. Solve the quadratic Equation by completing the square.

Week 9

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 13. Solve linear and quadratic equations using methods already outlined.
14. Solve linear simultaneous equations by substitution.

Week 10

15. Solve the quadratic Equation by using the quadratic formula.

16. Calculate and identify the maximum and minimum valueof a parabola.

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 17. Explain the existence of roots of quadratic equations and polynomials of higher
degrees by referencing the sketch to the graphs.
18. Use the discriminant and its nature to classify roots.
19. Sketch the graph of a quadratic expression using the discriminant, roots and
intercepts.

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 20. Define and identify types of Mapping, relations and functions.
21. Define and evaluate the composite function.

Week 12

1. Add and subtract functions.

2. Deduce an expression for the inverse of a function.

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 3. State the relationship between the function and its inverse.

Week 13

Topic: Counting Methods and Probability

1. Define the Fundamental Counting Principle.

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 2. Relate the origin of permutations to the counting principle and to apply permutations
to real life scenarios in business, economics and science.
3. Use the probabilityformula to evaluate the probability of simple events.

Week 14 -Revision

METHODS OF INSTRUCTION: Drill and Practice, Peer Tutoring, Individual Research, and Discovery.

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ASSESSMENT:

Course work 40% Exam60%

INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS:

a. SUPPLEMENTARY TEXT: Thinking Mathematically, Fifth Edition, BLITZER.

b. References: www.khanacademy.org
c. Handouts.

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COURSE REQUIREMENT:

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