MATH-1332 Contemporary Mathematics
Keturah Johnson
Credit Fall 2024
Section(s)
MATH-1332-067 (91452)
LEC DIL ONL DIL
Readings
Required Materials
This is a First Day™ class. The cost of required course materials, including an online version of the textbook and software access, has been added to your tuition and fees bill.
Textbook: Using & Understanding Mathematics: A Quantitative Reasoning Approach, 8th Edition by Bennett & Briggs. Pearson Publishing (MyLab software) ISBN-10: 0137575335, ISBN-13: 9780137575336
Supplemental Materials recommended: printer, 3-ring binder, lined notebooks(spirals)
Calculator: You will need a handheld scientific or graphing calculator; it should have a yx
or xy 
key and a square root key. Graphing calculators are fine but not required. A scientific calculator should compute with exponents, logarithms and simple probability and statistics. Most ACC faculty are familiar with the TI family of calculators. Hence, TI calculators are highly recommended for student use. Other calculator brands can also be used. Your instructor will determine the extent of calculator use in your class section.
Other Technology: Access to a webcam and microphone are required for this course. In addition, if your webcam will not allow your professor to see your workspace, hands, face, and computer screen, then you will need an auxiliary way to join class during test days. Eligible students can check out required technology at https://www.austincc.edu/students/student-technology-services.
Student Learning Outcomes/Learning Objectives
Course Description:
Credit Hours: 3, Contact Hours: 3
MATH 1332 - Contemporary Mathematics (3-3-0). A topics-based course, with a variety of possible topics chosen by individual instructors. The selected topics may include sets, logic, number theory, geometry, probability and statistics, and the mathematics of finance and social choice. This course is not algebra-intensive and is designed for non-technical majors.
MATH 1332 Course Rationale
MATH 1332: This course is intended to provide non-mathematics and non-science majors with a survey of topics in mathematics. The emphasis may be towards developing students' quantitative reasoning skills, illustrating the beauty of mathematics as a discipline, and/or imparting a feel for the different ways in which mathematics is used. The students who take this course generally are in nursing, the liberal arts, communication, workforce programs, or some social sciences. This course may satisfy the Core Curriculum and General Education Mathematics requirements.
MATH 1332 Course Objectives
- Increase/improve your quantitative literacy.
- Provide you with an opportunity to experience mathematics as an intellectual exercise and a way of thinking.
- Provide you with an opportunity to appreciate the visual and intellectual beauty of mathematics.
MATH 1332 Student Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the course, a student should be able to:
- Apply the language and notation of sets.
- Determine the validity of an argument or statement and provide mathematical evidence.
- Solve problems in mathematics of finance.
- Demonstrate fundamental probability/counting techniques and apply those techniques to solve problems.
- Interpret and analyze various representations of data.
- Demonstrate the ability to choose and analyze mathematical models to solve problems from real-world settings, including, but not limited to, personal finance, health literacy, and civic engagement.
- Understand that mathematics is an evolving discipline, interrelated with human culture, and understand its connections to other disciplines.
General Education Competencies
- Communication Skills: Develop, interpret, and express ideas and information through written, oral and visual communication that is adapted to purpose, structure, audience, and medium.
- Critical Thinking Skills: Gather, analyze, synthesize, evaluate and apply information for the purposes of innovation, inquiry, and creative thinking.
- Empirical and Quantitative Skills: Apply mathematical, logical and scientific principles and methods through the manipulation and analysis of numerical data or observable facts resulting in informed conclusions.
Office Hours
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