Dear MATH 111 Student,
In brief, here’s how the course will work:
1. We’ll meet in a chat room each Tuesday evening at 6:30 pm for an overview of the week’s lesson. You’ll use the CD ROM, Liberal Arts Mathematics, Sound Enhanced, 4th Edition, to study the week’s lesson. We will cover a chapter each week. To access the week's lecture, click on the icon named Lessons then select the appropriate chapter. The CD has my lecture (be sure to turn up the sound on your computer) on the week’s topics, some sample problems, and the week’s homework assignment. After you have studied the week's lecture and practice problems, click on the icon named Assignments on your desktop to view the week's assignment. You must complete the homework assignment and send the answers to me via email. You must email your solutions to me by 6:30 p.m. of the following Tuesday evening. This gives you one week to work the week’s homework assignment. I will post the correct answers on my website and I will post your grade on the WebCT site by Wednesday or Thursday evening.
1. Four times during the semester, you will come to a campus for an hour exam. Exams will be taken in the testing center of the campus most convenient for you. I have established a deadline by which you must compete each hour exam. You may take exams earlier, but not later. The deadlines are:
a. Test 1 March 8, 2010
b. Test 2 April 10, 2010
c. Test 3 May 3, 2010
d. Test 4 May 22, 2010
3. Your grade for the class will be the average of the four hour exams and your homework assignments (I will use the average of your twelve best homework assignments from the fourteen weeks as your homework grade). Thus each exam is 20% of your final grade and the average of your twelve best homework assignments will make up 20% of your final grade.
4. My grading scale is:
a. 90% - 100% - A
b. 80% - 89% - B
c. 70% - 79% - C
d. 60% - 69% - D
e. Below 60% - F
What do you need to do right
now?
1. Purchase a copy of the CD ROM, Liberal Arts Mathematics, Sound Enhanced, 4th Edition by Bill Beck from the CCBC Essex bookstore. For those of you who don’t live near the Essex campus, you can order a copy of the CD over Internet at http://www.bookstore.ccbcmd.edu/essex/
Select as follows:
Essex – Spring 2010
MATH – MATHEMATICS
111
WE1 WE2- Staff
The CD will be mailed to you.
2. If you don’t have a copy of the Acrobat Reader, go to this site and download a free copy of the Acrobat Reader. You’ll need this reader to read the weekly homework assignments that are on your hard drive.
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
3. Send me an email at wbeck@ccbcmd.edu
Here are the specifics of how to use the chat room:
We will meet in a chat room every Tuesday evening (beginning on 9/3/09) at 6:30 pm. To get to the chat room, launch your browser and go to:
http://www.ccbcmd.edu/distance/login.html
You will login with a username and password supplied by Joel Martin.
Have a great semester!
Bill Beck
P. S. All of our classes will be held in the chat room. We will not have any classes on campus.