Mathematics For Teachers II Syllabus for 2020-2021
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Students who do not attend class on or prior to the census date will be administratively dropped. Effective Fall, 2016

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Course

MATH-1351-002 Mathematics For Teachers II

Prerequisites

Prerequisite: MATH 1350-minimum grade of C For Education majors

Course Description

Elementary concepts of geometry, probability and statistics, as well as applications of the algebraic properties of real numbers to concepts of measurement with an emphasis on problem solving and critical thinking.

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Occupational License Disclaimer

Notice to Students enrolled in an educational program for preparation of issuance of certain occupational licenses:

Students enrolled in an educational program in preparation for obtaining certain occupational licenses are potentially ineligible for such license if the student has been convicted of an offense. For further information, please contact:

Melodie Graves
Justice Involved Advocate
Student Service Center 117
mgraves24@actx.edu
806-371-5995
Make appointment at https://melodiegraves.youcanbook.me

You can also contact the Legal Clinic, or the faculty member in charge of the educational program that you seek to enroll in. The further information you will receive will include notification to you of your right to request a criminal history evaluation letter from the licensing authority in order to clarify your particular situation.

Hours

(3 sem hrs; 3 lec)

Class Type

Online Course

Syllabus Information

Textbooks

Textbook: Mathematical Reasoning for Elementary Teachers, 7th edition.

By Long and De Temple, Addison Wesley Pearson Publishing Company.

  Hardback Book (Optional)

Online Digital Access Code (Required)

 

If you have JUST taken MATH 1350, within the last few months, you will NOT need to purchase this access code again.
You will automatically get access to the online course once you go through the blackboard MyMathLab tab.

Supplies

Supplies Required for this course: access to a computer with internet connection, calculator and most importantly...

an access code for MyMathLab. If you took the Math 1350 course online last semester, you may register in this course's MyMathLab component using the same access code and account as last semester at no additional cost. To do this, get into AC Connect and click into our Blackboard course for this semester.  Click the MyMathLab link on the main menu inside our Blackboard course.  Click "Launch" and "continue" if a security message appears.  Enter your username and password from your previous online course which used the same textbook.  This should give you access to MyMathLab again this semester at no additional cost as long as it has not been over a year since you took the previous course and we are using the same textbook for this course as you used in your previous course.

You must be able to get into MyMathLab to take this class. If you do not have an access code or an account from last semester, you need to purchase one online at www.mymathlab.com or contact your instructor immediately for assistance.

Student Performance

After completing this course, the student will be able to demonstrate knowledge of the following topics:

1. Apply fundamental terms of geometry such as points, lines, and planes to describe two and three dimensional figures.
2. Make and test conjectures about figures and geometric relationships.
3. Use a variety of methods to identify and justify congruency and similarity of geometric objects. 
4. Perform geometric transformations.
5. Demonstrate fundamental probability techniques and apply those techniques to solve problems.
6. Explain the use of data collection and statistics as tools to reach reasonable conclusions.
7. Recognize, examine and interpret the basic principles of describing and presenting data.
8. Perform measurement processes and explain the concept of a unit of measurement.
9. Develop and use formulas for the perimeter, area, and volume for a variety of figures.

Students Rights and Responsibilities

Student Rights and Responsibilities

Log in using the AC Connect Portal

In order to receive your AC Connect Email, you must log in through AC Connect at https://acconnect.actx.edu .

If you are an active staff or faculty member according to Human Resources, use "Exchange". All other students, use "AC Connect (Google) Email".

Expected Student Behavior

Students are expected to behave in a manner that is supportive of a positive learning environment.  This includes academic honesty.  Cheating is not allowed in any form.  Students are expected to perform their own work and exams at all times. Academic dishonesty will not be tolerated on any test or assignment for this course.  Plagiarism of any type will be considered academic dishonesty.  A grade of zero on the exam or assignment will be earned for any person found cheating or plagiarizing and the extent of the cheating may result in the student being dropped from the course.  This zero will not be used as a dropped grade.  In addition, students found cheating or plagiarizing may be subject to further disciplinary action as outlined in the Amarillo College Student's Rights and Responsibilities document.  

Students may NOT use a cell phone of any kind at any time while taking any test/exam in this course.  This includes the online tests and the proctored written exams.  The penalty for using a cell phone during a test/exam may be an immediate "F" in the course and possibly even being dropped from the course.  Please plan to leave your cell phone in a different location while you are taking your tests/exams for this course.

Students are expected to behave in a manner that is respectful toward AC faculty, staff, students, and/or property.  Respectful behavior is especially important and expected when you come to take your midterm and final exams which are proctored.  Please give your utmost kindness and respect to the staff who are helping to administer/proctor your exams.  Students who fail to comply with the standards outlined in the syllabus and/or with AC's "student Rights & Responsibilities" will be subject to disciplinary action which may include but is not limited to: removal from the course, consultation with the department chair or other AC authority, withdrawal from the course and/or the college.

Grading Criteria

Grading Criteria: The final grades of A (90-100), B (80-89) C (70-79), D (60-69), and F (below 60) will be computed as the weighted average of the earned grades from:

• MML Homework Average 20% (TWO lowest homework grade is dropped)
• Portfolio 20%
• Reviews 10% (Must score a 70 or above to take exam)
• Average of 4 highest Online Chapter Tests 30%
• Comprehensive Final Exam 20%

Examinations: You are not allowed to access your EXAM until you have scored at least a 65 on your review. You will take 5 timed online chapter tests, one after each of chapters 9, 10 11/12, 13 and 14. The online chapter tests will be taken using MyMathLab ONLINE. The four highest of these online chapter tests will be averaged and the lowest dropped.  PLEASE PAY CLOSE ATTENTION to the DUE DATES for these online chapter tests which are posted on the MyMathLab and on the calendar. If the due date passes and you have not taken your Online Chapter Test, you will get a zero for that grade.  I will, however, drop one lowest online chapter test grade at the end of the semester.  

FINAL:  Due to the current COVID-19 epidemic, information on the midterm and final will be updated according to the national and state laws.  You WILL be updated. You WILL be well informed. You WILL be successful!

Makeup Policy: It is the policy of the Math Department that make-up exams will NOT be given. Only in extreme, verifiable, and documented cases will any exception to this rule be considered. If any tests are not completed by the deadline stated, a grade of zero will be awarded.

Homework:  Your online homework using MyMathLab will comprise your entire homework grade for this course.  BE SURE to pay CLOSE ATTENTION to the due dates and times for each assignment which are posted in the MyMathLab calendar.  These due dates are also part of your Calendar found under the main menu option in your AC Connect course.  There are weeks where you have multiple homework assignments due.  If the due date passes and you have not done your homework, you will get a grade of zero for that homework grade.  I will drop two lowest homework grades at the end of the semester.  The Course Discussion and Course Information Quiz also count as a homework grade. Please be sure to do the Course Information Quiz at the beginning of the semester.  This is found in your blackboard course.

Lesson Portfolio: An electronic portfolio will be developed during the semester. This portfolio will consist of a collectable of foldables and visual demonstrations of each chapters contents and how they relate to the TEKS. You will have class announcements and videos posted to help explain this portfolio that you are to develope. You will be submitting your portfolio electronically. I will grade your portfolios electronically and post your results in our course gradebook.  Detailed instructions for the creation of your portfolio are found in the AC Connect course information documents found under the "Portfolio" tab of the Blackboard course main menu.  Please be sure to read these documents within the first three days of the course and complete them as you work through the course for this project as it is a large part (20%) of your overall grade in this course.

Attendance

This course will be web-based. Lectures, powerpoints and variouse digital instructions can be found through your MML course under "Multimedia Tools".  Mastery of the material will be facilitated by reading the text and Power Point lessons, viewing MyMathLab videos, working through examples and solving homework problems from the text and online. Chapter Tests will be given online.

Final Exam Due:  Wednesday, December 16th by 5 pm

Math Testing Lab Phone: 806-371-5088.

 

Attendance Policy: Since this is an distant education class, your attendance is achieved by logging into this course AT LEAST three times per week on different days of the week and by completing homework, test, any discussion, and communication requested between you and your instructor by the due dates.  Please stay current with your assignments and with class announcements.  Please respond promptly to e-mails and requests from your instructor.  Due dates for assignments, reviews, and all exams will be strictly enforced. Homework and tests not completed by the due date will earn a grade of zero.  It is easy to get behind in an online class; so stay motivated and do not procrastinate. The last day on which you may drop this course with a "W" is Tuesday December 8th by 5:00 pm.  If for some reason you stop working on the course and decide that you do not have time because of other commitments, you MUST contact your instructor  to obtain a signed "Withdrawal Approval Form" and subsequently turn in that form to the Ask AC/Registrar's desk by the due date listed above.  Approval to withdraw “W” is given based on the instructor observing a “good faith” effort on the part of the student to complete the requirements of this course.  Homework attempts done in MyMathLab, communication with your instructor via email, and test attempts in MyMathLab are examples of a “good faith” effort on the part of the student in this course.  Be sure to pay close attention to this matter as the semester progresses.

ADMINISTRATIVE DROP POLICY

The Census date for this course is  Monday November 2nd.  Any student not in attendance in this course by that date will be administratively dropped from the course.  Because this is an online course, attendance is defined as logging into the course and completing homework, tests, discussions, and communications by the due dates set in the syllabus, mymathlab, and assignment schedule document for this course. If you do not complete the first set of assignments prior to this census date, you will be dropped from the course.

If you do not complete the first 3 out of 5 assignments with 70% accuracy prior to this census date, you will be dropped from the course.

Calendar

Additional Information

Websites for this course:

www.actx.edu  takes you to Amarillo College's home page.  From there you will click the ACconnect box and log in.  From there you will find and click our course to get into the actual distant education/online course housed in Blackboard.

The course itself uses MyMathLab for delivery of the majority of the online instruction and content of the course.  It is important that the first time you access MyMathLab in this course, that you do it through your AC Connect /Blackboard Contemporary Math Course.   If AC Connect goes down, however, you may still do your homework by using Mozilla Firefox and typing www.mymathlab.com into the browser's address bar.  You will then be able to get into MyMathLab and continue your course work and homework assignments as usual.

 

Math Testing Lab(Durrett 103)	Outreach Center (Durrett 104)
Monday - Thursday	Monday - Thursday
8:00am - 10:00pm	8:00am - 8:00pm
Friday	Friday
8:00am - 8:00pm	8:00 - 8:00pm
Saturday	Saturday
9:00am - 8:00pm	9:00am - 8:00pm
371-5088	371-5119

 

MATH LAB RULES

• Books may be placed on the bookshelf or in a hall locker before you request a test. Padlocks may be checked out in the Math Lab.
• An Amarillo College picture ID is required in order to take a test in the Math Lab.
• Once you have begun work on a test that is considered one attempt. You cannot leave the Math Lab and return to finish that test at a later time.
• In the testing room, please do not sit by someone with the same colored test. All purses must be on the floor.
• The Math Lab will not hand out a test less than one hour before closing time.
• The Math Lab personnel will pick up your test five minutes prior to closing time.
• The Math Lab hours are posted on the outside door, in this syllabus, and in the lab itself.
• Please come prepared. If you do not have a pencil, you may purchase one from the Math Lab for 25 cents.  Please bring exact change. Pens are not allowed on any test.
• Childcare arrangements must be made prior to testing. Children may not accompany students into testing room or be left unattended anywhere on campus.
• CELL PHONE CALCULATORS ARE NOT ALLOWED.
• Cell phones must be turned off as not to disturb other students who are testing. NO CELL PHONE use of any kind is allowed in the Testing Room. If we see your cell phone out AT ANY TIME, FOR ANY REASON, while in the testing room, YOU WILL RECEIVE an "F" for the course!

 

http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/rules/tac/chapter111/index.html

To find the  Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) documents, go to  www.tea.texas.state.us.  Click the curriculum tab on the left side of the screen.