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Math 25: welcome • Math 25 packet • calendar • responsibilities • resources Other: Math 20 • for Math 25 instructors • factoring • my next textbook? |
Welcome to Math 25!
Math 25 (course description) teaches real-life applications of the topics and skills from Math 20.
Our workbook is available at the LCC Bookstore and online. Unless you have an expensive laser printer, buying it at the bookstore costs less than printing it at home. The reference book, Wiley Path Business Math, is sold at the bookstore and costs about $20 if purchased used and sold back at the end of the term. An unofficial reference book, Business Math Demystified, may also be worth purchasing.
You will also need a scientific calculator that can do exponents, pi, and has a "previous answer" key. Both TI and Casio sell inexpensive models that earn good reviews.
Please register for MRC use (CRN 34083 in Winter 2012) if you plan to use the Math Resource Center at all, for tutoring or its quiet study room. This CRN costs nothing and has no credits. It is used by the college to get appropriate state funding for the MRC staff.
Homework is turned in using Moodle.
After each class, lecture notes will be available online.
Most of the syllabus is in the beginning of your workbook, some information is on a bookmark. During the first two weeks of the term, please take the syllabus quiz and turn in your reply by e-mail.
Practice Midterm #1 is here. You can use a midterm generating spreadsheet to check your work or put new numbers in the problems for extra practice.
Practice Midterm #2 is here. You can use an even niftier spreadsheet to check your work or put new numbers in the problems for extra practice.
During the term I will share below an online version of the gradebook with Hogwarts-style names. If your midterm scores and attendance record do not tell you what your fake name is then call or e-mail me.
Online grades will be available here.
Learning this math is like a stool that stands on three legs: reading the workbook and reference book before class, carefully doing homework, and developing good test-taking techniques. Neglecting any of these three is dangerous! Please do not demonstrate such recklessness.