Grading

Your grade for NCBM 0244 is computed using the following:

15% Attendance

35% ALEKS Progress

50% Exit Exam Grade

A    90-100     B  80-89     C  70-79     D  60-69    F <60

Attendance Grade

You will lose 1 % point for each absence past 2 absences during the semester.

ALEKS Progress Grade

Throughout the semester, your instructor will update your ALEKS progress grade. This is the average of your percent progress in any of the ALEKS section objectives for which the due date has passed. You may continue to improve your ALEKS Progress grade throughout the semester.

Exit Exam Grade

Students will take an exit exam toward the end of the semester. Students may have two attempts to pass (or improve your grade on) the exit exam. Review for the exit exam will be provided. The score you earn on the exit exam will be used in the overall grading scheme to compute your grade. If students have completed the ALEKS section objectives to their required percentages earlier in the semester, they may take the exit exam early.

The cost of ALEKS software has been included in your tuition payment. There is no textbook to purchase.

This course is designed to support students concurrently enrolled in MATH 1414 by providing additional focus on MATH 1414 topics and just-in-time review of prerequisite topics, as needed. Topics include review of properties of real numbers, functions, algebra of functions, inequalities, polynomials and factoring, rational expressions and equations, radical expressions and equations, quadratic functions and their graphs, solving quadratic equations, and exponential functions.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course a student will be able to:

1.       Demonstrate understanding and knowledge of properties of functions, which include evaluation, domain and range, related equations, and basic operations.

2.       Simplify, factor, and perform basic operations on algebraic expressions, including polynomials, rational and radical expressions, and complex numbers.

3.       Solve linear, absolute value, rational, radical, and quadratic equations by symbolic methods including completing the square, and solve linear inequalities.

4.       Appropriately use forms and formulas, including quadratic formula and equations of lines.

5.       Graph linear equations, including systems, as well as quadratic functions.

6.       Solve application problems using linear and quadratic models, direct and inverse variation, and 2x2 systems of linear equations.