NCBM 0185 Grade Components

As this course is meant to support your progress through MATH 1332, 60% of your NCBM 0185 grade will be determined by your overall MATH 1332 grade.

MATH 1332 Grade: 60%

Participation: 40%

Success Assignments/InClass: 15%

Discussion Boards: 15%

Notes Check: 10%

Grading Scale

A: 90 - 100

B: 80 – 89

C: 70 – 79

D: 60 – 69

F: < 60

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.

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.

NCBM 0185 – Support for Contemporary Mathematics (1-1-0). This course is designed to support students concurrently enrolled in MATH 1332 by providing additional focus on MATH 1332 topics and just-in-time review of prerequisite topics, as needed. This course is not for college level credit.

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 be used to satisfy the Core Curriculum and the General Education Mathematics requirements.

NCBM 0185: This course is intended to provide support to students who are taking MATH 1332 Contemporary Mathematics.  It must be taken along with the paired section of MATH 1332.

NCBM 0185 Course Objectives/Student Learning Outcomes

1. Provide an opportunity to increase/improve quantitative literacy.
2. Provide an opportunity to communicate mathematical ideas in a small group setting.
3. Provide just-in-time review of prerequisite arithmetic and algebra topics.

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.