Chris Sears

16-Week Schedule - Online Sections - Liberal Arts Mathematics

Note: Based on Contemporary Mathematics by Donna Kirk. Link to Textbook

Course Start

• Syllabus Assignment

Week 1

• Discussion 1
• Understanding Percent
• Discounts, Markup, and Sales Tax

Week 2

• Discussion 2
• Simple Interest
• Compound Interest
• Making a Personal Budget

Week 3

• Discussion 3
• Methods of Savings
• The Basics of Loans
• Chapter 6 Quiz

Week 4

• Project 1
• Discussion 4
• Points, Lines, and Planes
• Angles

Week 5

• Discussion 5
• Triangles
• Polygons, Perimeter, and Circumference
• Area

Week 6

• Discussion 6
• Volume and Surface Area
• Pythagorean Theorem
• Chapter 10 Quiz

Week 7

• Project 2
• Discussion 7
• The Multiplication Rule for Counting and Permutations
• Factorials and Combinations

Week 8

• Midterm Exam

Week 9

• Discussion 8
• Basic Concepts of Probability
• Probability with Permutations and Combinations
• Expected Value
• Chapter 7 Quiz

Week 10

• Discusson 9
• Visualizing Data
• Mean, Median, and Mode
• Range and Standard Deviation

Week 11

• Discussion 10
• The Normal Distribution
• Applications of the Normal Distribution
• Chapter 8 Quiz

Week 12

• Project 3
• Voting Methods
• Fairness in Voting Methods

Week 13

• Standard Divisors, Standard Quotas, and the Apportionment Problem
• Apportionment Methods

Week 14

• Fairness in Apportionment Methods
• Chapter 11 Quiz

Week 15

• Review

Week 16

• Final Exam