(Five credit hours, six lecture hours per week during a 16-week semester, no lab hours)

Description: This fast track combination algebra course/courses streamlines content for the purpose of moving adult students more quickly through developmental mathematics. The design is to improve retention and persistence of students; the students feel like it is one class, but they do the work for two. Throughout the course problem solving and the concept of function are demonstrated and emphasized. Multiple representations of a problem are encouraged including verbal, symbolic, graphical, and numerical representations.

Prerequisite Review Sheets

How will this course reflect the revised developmental math curriculum in Spring 2000? To the extent that the revisions reflect moving the material from one course to another, or cutting back on the overlap between the courses, those don't affect this fast-track course. To the extent that some topics were dropped from the curriculum of Intermediate Algebra, they will be dropped from this fast-track course as well. The fast-track course will continue to cover the topics of the current Elementary Algebra and Intermediate Algebra courses.

Expanded prerequisite information: Students need a strong prealgebra background to succeed in this course. As a general rule, this should include either an A in ACC's Prealgebra course, a teacher's recommendation that the student take an accelerated course, or a good recollection of the material from Algebra I in high school. Students will be expected to make above 70 on the Elementary Algebra pretest during the first class period. A good way to prepare for this is to work through the Prerequisite Review Sheet for MATD 0370.

Other information: This course is equivalent in credit, time required, and workload, to two regular courses. Students must plan their time commitments accordingly. Course requirements also include some group work in most sections, thus students must be enthusiastic about and prepared to engage in group work with the other students in their class.

Textbook: Elementary and Intermediate Algebra Concepts and Applications: A Combined Approach 2^nd Ed Bittinger, Ellenbogen, & Johnson
Optional: Student's Solutions Manual by Judith A. Penna

Math Tutor option from the textbook publisher

Department Curriculum Committee: Nancy Miller, chair

• Nancy Miller

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Last updated December 1, 1999. Comments, questions, suggestions?