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MATH 1100A:
Finite Mathematics--Spring 2019
Section A: on-line,
Course ID (CRN #): 2204
INSTRUCTOR
Yi
Wang, Ph.D., Professor
Auburn University Montgomery
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
College Arts and Sciences
Room 213C, Goodwyn Hall
Email: ywang2@aum.edu
Homepage: http://sciences-srv.aum.edu/~ywang
Phone:
334.244.3318
Online Office hours:
T/R 4:00-5:00 for MATH1100 A (online). During
the email office hours, your email will be replied ASAP unless prevented by
unexpected circumstances. Otherwise your email will be replied within
two-working days.
Communication: Communication is extremely important for an
on-line course. Important! Please deliver
your questions using the regular aum.edu email. Students' questions via email
system will be answered within two working days. Emails requesting extension time for quizzes and/or exams
are strongly discouraged and will not be answered. Emails requesting extra
credits at any time will not be answered!
PREREQUISITES:
MATH 0800 or an appropriate score on the AUM Mathematics Placement Test.
TEXT:
: Finite Mathematics, for Business, Economics, Life
Sciences, and Social
Sciences,
14th ed., by Raymond Barnett, Michael
Ziegler, and Karl Byleen; published by Pearson, 2019.
ISBN-13:
978-0-13-467414-8;
ISBN-10:
0-13-467414-6 .
CALCULATORS:
Essentially you only need
a basic calculator that is capable of performing arithmetic and exponent calculation.
A graphing calculator such as the
TI-84 (TI-83) is acceptable.
However, calculators with CAS capability such as
TI-89 or higher or similar are prohibited in all exams.
Please bring the calculator to all
class meetings and exams. You may use
the calculator for each test, but you will be required to show all work for
the tests and if you rely on the calculator for solutions, you will get zero
credit. You are here to learn mathematics rather to demonstrate your using
a calculator and a calculator will be used only as an aid.
COURSE
DESCRIPTION/Goals/Objectives:
Primarily for students not continuing to
calculus. Sets, counting, permutations, combinations, basic probability,
Bayes’ theorem, descriptive statistics, binomial and normal distributions,
matrices, applications of matrices to Markov chains and decision theory.
Additional topics as time allows.
The main subject of this course is an introduction to
probability and descriptive statistics. We will first smooth the path by
briefly discussing sets (Appendix A-1), as the language of probability theory
is based on that of sets.
A second subject which is frequently
encountered in applications, is that of solving systems of (linear)
equations. This will prove to be the second leg of the course, followed by a
short introduction to Markov Chains, which ties the two main subjects,
probability and linear algebra, together.
 :This course will use Blackboard
http://bb9.aum.edu. Syllabus, lecture notes, class
announcements, quizzes, weekly schedule and updated grades will
be posted at Blackboard. It is
the students’ responsibility to check the information posted at Blackboard. On-line quizzes for covered
sections will be offered and graded and the average grade of all on-line
quizzes accounts for 20% of your overall grade. Each quiz is only offered
at a specific time-frame and is always due on Monday 11:59pm starting from
the second week, even if Monday is a holiday. Please
DO NOT send emails requesting extension time for quizzes and/or exams. Such
emails will not be replied.
 Pearson
| MyLab |Math : This course will use Pearson MyMathLab
https://www.pearsonmylabandmastering.com/northamerica/mymathlab/. 40% of
your grade comes from the assignments completed in MyMathLab. There are 30
homework assignments and 8 quizzes assigned in MyMathLab. Everyone must
purchase the access code. There is an Ebook and many other learning
resources that come with the access code. Instructions of how to register
this course can be found in the 'Course Contents' folder or in the 'Week 1'
folder by clicking on the link of 'Week 1' on the left panel.
EXAMS: There
will be a mid-term test and a final exam.
The two exams must be taken in a
designated time frame that shall be given by the instructor (see the
schedule below). The maximum length of the time for the midterm exam
is 120 minutes and for the final is Two and half hours.
Please DO NOT send emails
requesting extension time for quizzes and/or exams. Such emails will not be
replied.
Exams must be completed independently by the student
him/herself. Violation of the policy will result in a `F'.
GRADES:
Here
is a breakdown of the grade components:
Homework/Quiz in MyMathLab....................40%
Quiz in BlackBoard.............................…......20%
Midterm test …………………….…20%
Final ……..…....................................20%
Total points: 100%
If you get
the following points you will receive
>90%……...........................A
>=80% and <90%………..B
>=70% and <80%………..C
>=60% and <70%………..D
<60%....................................F
Grades in the course
will reflect students’ demonstrated attainment of course objectives. I reserve the right to adjust these ranges downward
or make appropriate scaling if necessary due to excessive difficulty of
assignments or tests. Borderline cases will be
considered according to the attendance, grades of all quizzes, mid-exams and grade of the final by the sole
discretion of the instructor.
Online Resources from Pearson MyMathLab:
Every student must purchase
Access Code from Pearsons Education. See the “Student Registration
Instruction” posted in BlabckBoard for detail instruction on how to
purchase the Access Code. If you have not done so, do this immediately. If
you have done so, log into the Finite Mathematics class you have enrolled.
Of all the menus listed on the left panel, you will use the following most.
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Multimedia Library. This is the most
important menu you will use for this course. You can check on one of
the links: Multimedia Textbook, Video,
PowerPoint, etc, and click “Find
Now” at the bottom and find out what each link will do.
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Homework: Click on
the “homework” menu and do all the homework and quiz problems assigned for a
section. After clicking an individual question, you will see on the upper
right corner a button reads "Questions helps".
You can click on the button and use any resources available there, such as
Help Me Solve This,
View an Example, Animation, Textbook, Video, etc.
”View an example” is probably the most important
link you should use.I strongly recommend that you do the homework for each
section in MyMathLab before taking the quiz for that section in Blackboard.
The homework assignments and quizzes in MyMathLab constitutes 40% of your
grade.
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Study Plan. Here you will get
problems to practice. You will need to click only on the sections we cover
in our syllabus. Just as in the homework menu, you will see links: Help
Me Solve This, View an Example, Animation, Textbook, Video,etc.. Again
there is no grade associated with this.
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Tools for Success. These are
additional resources provided by the publisher of your textbook.
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Pearson Tutor Services. Click
on this link if you need tutoring from Pearson at no additional cost to you.
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Gradebook. Allows you to view
the grades you got within MyMathLab. Again, only the grades of the assigned
homework and quiz will count here.
Online Resources on Blackboard
As you log into Blackboard, you will
see the following resources posted.
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Course Content. This is the main
resource you find on Blackboard. The content is divided into chapters. The
folder of each chapter contains:
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PowerPoint presentation (you must have Microsoft
PowerPoint installed on your computer to view this),
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Video lectures from other sources (not from the
publisher),
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Online Quizzes. There will be one
quiz for every section covered. Please note the following about
online quizzes.
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For every quiz, the quiz number matches with the
section number on which the quiz is based. For example, Quiz 7.2 is
based section 7.2 of the textbook.
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Each online quiz has a due date and it is no more
available once the due date and time has expired. Therefore, it is your
responsibility to strictly follow these due dates and finish before they
expire. Each quiz is only offered
at a specific time-frame and is always due on Monday 11:59pm starting from
the second week, even if Monday is a holiday.
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Each quiz may be taken two times, and you will get
different but similar questions for each attempt.
The highest grade of all the attempts
will count for each quiz.
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No extension request is accepted for an expired
quiz for any reason.
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Announcements. Here announcements of
the week will be posted.
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Syllabus. Here the Syllabus is
posted. The Syllabus can also be viewed from the “course Content” area.
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My Grades. You can view your
day-to-day grades and progress from here.
OTHER STUDYING RESOURCES:
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Free Academic Support: All students have the opportunity
to receive free academic support at AUM. Visit the Learning Center (LC) in
the WASC on second floor Library or the Instructional Support Lab (ISL) in
203 Goodwyn Hall. The LC.ISL offers writing consulting as well as tutoring
in almost every class through graduate school. The LC may be reached at
244-3470 (call or walk-in for a session), and the ISL may be reached at
244-3265. ISL tutoring is first-come-first served. Current operating hours
can be found at www.aum.edu/learningcenter.
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Students may seek technology assistance from the
ITS Help Desk located in the computer lab on the first floor of the Taylor
Center. You may also call 334-244-3500 or email helpdesk@aum.edu.
SOME IMPORTANT POLICIES IN THIS CLASS:
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There is absolutely no make-up for
the homework/quizzes/worksheets. Late work passing the given
deadline is not accepted.
Missing test/exam:
No make-up test/exam
is allowed.
A missing test/exam receives a grade of zero.
No
exam will be given earlier than the scheduled time. Each quiz will be available for about a week for most of the cases. Please
DO NOT send emails requesting extension time for quizzes and/or
exams, such emails will not be replied.
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A reasonable excuse commonly refers to
an institutional excuse, a doctor-signed excuse, or an excuse signed
by some authorized people who are solely accepted by the instructor.
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Exceptions only are
made at the sole decision of the instructor.
I do
NOT give any extra credits whatsoever. Every student in the class are
evaluated by the above grading policy. Emails a
requesting extra credits will not be answered!
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HOW TO SUCCEED THIS
COURSE?
In addition to my
effort, your efforts are indispensable.
(1) To get a grade C, one is advised to spend at least 1 hour (depending on your background
in mathematics) for each lecture hour in reviewing the lecture notes, doing
the examples in the lecture notes and in the book, and doing some
homework problems.
(2) To get a grade B, one
is advised to spend at least 1-2 hours
for each lecture hour in reviewing the
lecture notes, doing the examples in the lecture notes and in the book, and
doing most of the homework problems.
(3) To get a grade A, one
is advised to spend at least 1-3 hours
for each lecture hour in reviewing the
lecture notes, doing the examples in the lecture notes and in the book, and
doing almost all the homework problems.
I would suggest you to
write down your objective grade for this course, and commit your effort to
this milestone of your life goal. Again, I wish you succeed.
My objective grade
for this course is
. I will commit hours
for each lecture hour to study the course materials.
GUIDELINES OF HOW TO
CALCULATE YOUR FINAL GRADE:
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The overall score is calculated according to the
contributions from MyMathLab assignmetns (40%), BB quizzes (20%), the midterm-exam (20%),
final(20%).
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All raw scores are converted to percentage to
participate in calculating and comparison. The maximum percentage is
100% for any given quiz or exam.
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A missed quiz is scored as 0 for that
quiz. Finally, the average
percentage of all the quizzes are calculated for the points of the quiz
part.
APPEALS: After final course grades have been
submitted, you may appeal your final grade. As a first step, you would make a
written appeal to the instructor of the course together with a copy of your
photo ID.
CLASS ENVIRONMENT:
This is an on-line course. It is important for
students to keep up with the course schedule. Quizzes and exams are only
offered in certain designated time-frames. Students are expected to
accept responsibility for study on-line materials, to complete on-line
quizzes and examinations as scheduled by the
instructor. A missed quiz receive a zero.
Please DO NOT send emails requesting
extension time for quizzes and/or exams. Such emails will not be replied.
PLAGIARISM: Plagiarism or cheating of
any kind will not be tolerated. You cannot copy (totally or partially) someone
else’s solution or allow someone else to copy your solution. You may
not let somebody else do the quizzes or exams for you. You will receive an “F”
in the course if you are caught.
DISCIPLINE AND ACADEMIC HONESTY. The policies of the Student Discipline
Code apply. You are advised to familiarize yourself with these policies,
which can be found in the current edition of the AUMANAC.
Please, adhere to the standards
of academic integrity stated in the AUM Catalog.
DISABILITY ACCOMMODATIONS: Students who need
accommodations are asked to contact me by e-mail to discuss your
accommodations. If you have not registered for accommodation services
through the Center for Disability Services (CDS), but need accommodations,
make an appointment with CDS, 147 Taylor Center, or call 334-244-3631 or
e-mail CDS at cds@aum.edu.
COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Material presented in this
course may be protected by copyright law.
Disclaimer: The right of interpreting this syllabus exclusively
belongs to the instructor.
Weekly
Schedule for Math 1100--Finite Mathematics: Spring 2019
Online Office hours:
(T/R: 4:00--5:00) for online classes
Note: This is only a guide as how the
course should proceed. Changes might occur.
Please DO NOT send emails requesting
extension time for quizzes and/or exams. Such emails will not be replied.
Section with an asterisk (*) is optional.
Week 1
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0 :01/07
1. 01/09: 7.2 |
Week 2
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2. 01/14: 7.3
3. 01/16: 7.4 |
Week 3
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01/21: MLK
Holiday. 01/22: Student Holiday. No class.
4. 01/23: 8.1 |
Week 4
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5. 01/28: 8.2
6. 01/30: 8.3
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Week 5
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7. 02/04:
8.4
8. 02/06: 8.5 |
Week 6
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9: 02/11: 8.5
10: 02/13: 11.1 |
Week 7
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11. 02/18: 11.2
12: 02/20: 11.3 |
Week 8
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13. 02/25: self-review/catch-up
14: 02/27: Midterm
test in BlackBoard (9:00am--10:15pm, 10/10) Note the exam must be submitted
before 10:15pm.
Midterm Grades due Fri. Mar. 01.
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Week 9
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15: 03/04: 11.4
16: 03/06: 11.4/11.5 |
Week 10 |
3/11--3/15: Spring Break this week, no class.
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Week 11
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17. 03/18: 11.5
18. 03/20: 4.1
Last day to drop/resign classes: Fri., 03/22 |
Week 12
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19: 03/25: 4.2
20: 03/27: 4.3 |
Week 13
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21: 04/01: 4.4
22: 04/03: 4.5 |
Week 14
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23. 04/08: 4.6
24. 04/10: 9.1 |
Week 15
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25:
04/15:
9.2
26:
04/17: 9.3 |
Week 16
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27: 04/22: self-review/catch-up
28: 04/24: self-review/catch-up
04/26: Weather make-up day
Last day of class:
Wed. 04/24, 2018
for Monday/Wednesday classes.
Thurs., 04/25 for Tuesday/Thursday classes. |
Week 17
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- Final week
April 29--May 02
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Final Exam in BlackBoard: Mon.
April 29,
2019, at 09:00--10:15pm. Note the exam must be submitted before
10:15pm.
Please DO NOT send emails
requesting extension time for quizzes and/or exams. Please do not
send emails asking for extra credits after the final exam. Such
emails will not be replied.
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GOOD LUCK ON THE FINAL AND HAVE A GREAT
Summer!!!
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Last updated:
01/08/2019
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