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FUNDAMENTALS OF MATHEMATICS Fall 2007

INSTRUCTOR: M K PANAHI

OFFICE: MC 2.404

E-MAIL: mpanahi@utdallas.edu

TELEPHONE: 972-883-6732
TEXT: Developmental Mathematics 7th Edition by Bittinger &Beecher

ROOM NUMBER: MC 2.408

SECTION: 001 DMTH-0V93


TIME: 10 am -11:15 am
Days: TR

COURSE OBJECTIVE: To develop a further understanding of the process of learning mathematics, and
to continue to build the fundamentals of algebra necessary for a foundation of future courses or utilization
in a career or other endeavors.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This is a first course in introductory Algebra and you may need to take another
semester of intermediate Algebra in order to be fully comfortable with all the necessary concepts involved in
THEA which covers topics such as operations on real numbers, operations on polynomials, such as
combining like terms, multiplying and factoring terms, simplifying rational expressions, solving linear and
nonlinear equations and graphing inequalities, and basic concepts of geometry. Other topics are covered in
the next

COURSE GRADING METHOD: Your course grade will be determined as follow: Five tests (70% of the
total grade) and a comprehensive final test (30%of the total grade). No make up exams, missed test is a grade
zero.
DROP PROCEDURE:
.My classes have an attendance policy. If you are required to be enrolled in this course to satisfy
the THEA requirement for remediation, you are required to attend and participate. PLEASE REMEMBER
TO SIGN THEA CONTRACT WITH ME.

ABSENCES: You are expected to attend every class meeting. Problems will be assigned on a regular
basis. Answers to most of these problems are given at the back of the textbook. Complete solutions to many
of these problems may be found in the solution manual, which may be available in the bookstore .you,
should work several problems of each type, and working more than the class assignments is strongly
encouraged. Do not use the solutions until you have exhausted all possibilities (including asking the tutors
and the instructor). You may receive help overall from tutors in the Math Lab (MC 2.412) or by viewing
a videotape in the Math Lab or Multimedia services. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL
MATERIALS YOU MISSED WHEN ABSENT. Regular, punctual attendance is expected. .

TARDIES: Tardies are strongly discouraged. It is; however, better to come late than not at all, as long as
it is not a habit. If you anticipate a particular problem, please discuss it with me before or after class. More
than 5 minutes late counts as an absence and leaving class early counts as an absence.

EVALUATION:

A = 90 to 100
B = 80 to 89
C = 70 to 79
D = 60 to 69
F below 60

TEST DATES WILL BE ANNOUNCED IN CLASS AND THE FINAL IS AS IN THE CLASS
SCHEDULE.

GENERAL POLICIES
FOOD AND BEVERAGES ARE NOT ALLOWED IN THE CLASSROM.TO MINIMIZE DISRUPTIONS DURING THE
CLASS MAKE SURE THAT PAGERS AND CELLULAR PHONES ARE TURNED OFFBEFORE THE LECTURE
BEGINS.BE CONSIDERATE OF OTHERS IN THE CLASS BY NOT ARRIVING LATE NOR LEAVING EARLY AND
ALSO BY REFRAINING FROMTALKING DURING LECTURE OR WHILE SOMEONE ELSE IN THE CLASS IS
SPEAKING .IF YOU MUST LEAVE EARLY NOTIFY ME BEFORE THE LECTURE BEGINS.ACADEMIC
DISHONESTY IS NOT ACCEPTABLE IN AN ACADEMIC COMMUNITY.NO CREDIT WILL BE GIVEN FOR
PLAGIARIZED WORK. ACADEMIC DISHONESTY WILL NOT BE TOLERATED.STUDENTS ARE REQUIERED TO
INFORM THE LECTURER OF SUSPECTED HONOR CODE VIOLATIONS.

MATH LAB: Math lab is available to UTD students and you are encouraged to use it .The
hours of operations are M-R 10AM -8 PM AND FRI & SAT 10-2 PM OR YOU CAN CALL FOR
INDIVIDUAL APPOINTMENTS 972-883-6707

Suggested homework assignments:


Section1.1- 1.9 every odd problems
Section 2.1-2.6 every odd problems
Section 3.1-3.7 every odd problems
Section 4.1-4.8 every odd problems
Section 5.1-5.4 every odd problems
Section 6.1-6.8 every odd problems
Section 7.1-7.8 every odd problems
Section 8.1 -8.8 every odd problems
Section 9.1-9.7 every odd problems
Section 10.1-10.6 every odd problems
Section 11.11.7 every odd problems
Section 12.1-12.5 every odd problems

Scholastic Dishonesty
The following is from the University of Texas at Dallas Handbook of Operating Procedures (Title V:
Student Discipline and Conduct).

SECTION 49.36 SCHOLASTIC DISHONESTY


The university expects all students to maintain a high level of responsibility with respect to
academic honesty. Because the value of an academic degree depends on the absolute integrity of
the work done by the student for that degree, it is imperative that a student maintain a high
standard of individual honor in his or her scholastic work.
(b) The dean may initiate disciplinary proceedings under Subchapter C against a student accused
of scholastic dishonesty upon complaint by a faculty member or a student.
(c) Scholastic dishonesty is the submission as one's own work of material that is not one's own.
As a general rule, it includes, but is not limited to, one of the following acts: cheating, plagiarism,
and/or collusion.
(d) Cheating includes, but is not limited to
(1) copying from another student's test paper, laboratory report, other report, or computer files,
data listings, and/or programs or engaging in conduct that facilitates such conduct by another
student.
(2) using during a test, materials not authorized by the person giving the test;
(3) failing to comply with instructions given by the person administering the test which would
include, but not be limited to, time restrictions, use of blue book, seating arrangements;
(4) collaborating with or seeking aid from or giving aid to another student during a test;
(5) knowingly using, buying, selling, stealing, transporting, or soliciting in whole or in part the
contents of an unadministered test, test key, homework solutions, or computer program;
(6) substituting for another student, or permitting another person to substitute for oneself, to
take a test;
(7) soliciting another person to obtain an unadministered test or information about an
unadministered test;
(8) discussing the contents of an examination with another student who will take the
examination;
(9) possession during a test of materials that are not authorized by the person giving the test,
such as class notes or specifically designed "crib notes." The presence of textbooks constitutes a
violation only if they have been specifically prohibited by the person administering the test.
(10) Submission of substantial portions of the same academic work for credit (including oral
reports) more than once without written authorization from the instructor.
(e) Plagiarism means the appropriation, buying, receiving as a gift, or obtaining by any means
another's work and the submission or incorporation of that work in one's own written work
offered for credit without appropriate attribution.
(f) Collusion means the unauthorized collaboration with another person in preparing academic
assignments offered for credit.
(g) Falsifying academic records means the altering of grades or other falsification (statements,
acts or omissions) of academic records including but not limited to the application for admission,
grade reports, test papers, registration materials, and reporting forms used by the registrar's office
or other university offices.
(h) Falsifying data or experiments includes, but is not limited to, the submission of false findings
and/or the citation of false references in research or other assignments submitted for credit and/or
for the awarding of a degree.

In other words, these are some examples of scholastic dishonesty:

• Copying graded homework

• Working together on a take home test or homework when specifically


prohibited by the professor

• Looking at another student's paper during an exam

• Looking at your notes when prohibited

• Taking an exam out of the classroom when prohibited

• Giving your work to another to be copied

• Giving someone answers to exam questions during the exam

• After taking an exam, informing a person of questions that appeared on


the exam

• Giving or selling a term paper or class work to another student


• Copying homework answers form your text and handing them in for a
grade

• Quoting text or other works on an exam, term paper or homework without


citing the source

• Handing in a paper purchased from a term paper service or from the


Internet

• Handing in another's paper as your own

• Taking a paper from an organization's files and handing it in as your own

• Passing information from an earlier class to a later class

• Having someone take your test for you

• Changing a graded paper and requesting it be regarded

• Transferring a computer file from one person's account to another

You must read the material at


http://www.utdallas.edu/student/slife/scholastic.html

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