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MAT 119 Online - Finite Mathematics

Spring 2009

Prerequisites and Placement: Students MUST complete the Unified Placement Test with a score of 75 or higher or have completed one of the following courses with a grade of C or better: MAT 113, 117, 170, 210 or 270.

Purpose: This course covers topics from set theory, combinatorics, probability, matrices, and Markov chains.” This is a continuation of College Algebra and an exploration of topics useful for any major where a general knowledge of probability is needed.

Syllabus: The Syllabus for On-line MAT-119is different from the traditional syllabus. Here is a link to it: MAT-119 Spring 2009 Syllabus.

Testing Center: Most course Evaluations for MAT-119 on-line are conducted on-line. Before you assume this makes them easier, please consider that every student receives different but equivalent problem sets for evaluations (progress checks and tests) and students are seldom asked to regurgitate homework problems. Should written evaluation be required, they will be in the ASU Math and Statistics Testing Center at the Tempe Campus or an off-campus testing facility located by the student and approved by the instructor. A link for Testing Center location, hours and procedures is at http://math.asu.edu/fym/tstcenter.html

Tutoring:

  1. The Math Tutor Center: Free Math Tutoring is available on the Tempe campus through a partnership with University
    Academic Success Programs. Hours of operations are available at their website.
  2. The ASU Learning Support Service (LSS) (also free of charge) provides counseling, tutoring in math (and many other subjects), supplemental instruction, and other types of support to students. Check with them for scheduled sessions and locations.
  3. On-line Tutoring may be available at various times of the day. To see the hours you can use this resource, check your announcements area in Blackboard.
  4. Instructor Virtual Office Hours (VOH’s) are available for this course. Check these hours in Blackboard also.
  5. Instructor Office Hours: For those on-campus in Tempe, the instructors maintain regular office hours. Check for them at your instructor's website.

On-line Work: All work is accomplished on-line.

Calculator: You should have a TI-83+ or TI-84+ calculator for this course. Some homework assignments and exam questions may require using certain features of the TI-83+/84+ that do not exist on other calculators. Calculator workshops are scheduled on campus. The below link may help see when they are scheduled: pdf. Calculators with QWERTY keyboards or those that do symbolic algebra such as TI-89's, TI-92's, Casio FX2 or 9970G's cannot be used during exams and usually provide little additional support. This link gives some help with graphing calculators: Calculator Help

Course Schedule: Search for MAT 119 on-line sections at classsearch. Please note there is a strict capacity for this course. The instructor does not generally allow overrides for capacity.

Course Coordinators: Currently the MAT 119 course coordinator for the On-line MAT-119 Course is Terry Turner.

Course Links: Course links are provided within the WebWorK system. This is the required on-line homework and evaluation system for this course as explained in the syllabus. However, you can see some materials at this link: MAT-119 On-line Readings.