MATH 0315
SOUTH PLAINS COLLEGE
Purpose of Course:
This
course is designed for those students who need MATH
0320 and have not had one year of high school algebra. It includes properties of
signed numbers, algebraic
expressions, linear equations in one unknown and factoring.
Note:
MATH 0315 is for students whose score on the mathematics section of the THEA is between 180 and 205 (or whose score on the mathematics section of the Accuplacer is between 42 and 61) or who have not had any high school algebra.
Textbook:
Elementary & Intermediate Algebra by
Sullivan, Struve, and Mazzarella.
Lab:
Two thirty-minute lab sessions have been scheduled each week
for your class.
Attendance:
Attendance and effort are the most important activities for success in this course. Records of your attendance will be maintained. Whenever absences become excessive and, in the instructor’s opinion, minimum course objectives cannot be met, the instructor may administratively withdraw you from the course with a grade of X or F. If you are in this course to fulfill TSI requirements, then dropping or being dropped from this course will cause your removal from all courses at SPC. Refer to the General Catalog under Class Attendance and Drops & Withdrawals.
Video Tapes:
Video
tapes for many topics in this course are available in the Math Department AVT
Lab, Room M-116, or building 2 at the Reese campus. You may check out
the tapes for use at home or you may duplicate them with the equipment available
in M-116. You must furnish the blank tape.