CURRICULUM COMMITTEE COURSE REVISION FORM REVISED 1/3/2015
We recommend that you begin the course revision process by engaging in meaningful conversations with your departmental colleagues and those colleagues who use the course in question as a service course.
The course revision initiator and/or the sponsoring department chair should attend and be prepared to address questions at the appropriate department meeting, Curriculum Committee meeting and Faculty Council meeting.
I. ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
COURSE PREFIX AND NUMBER: MAT 096
COMPLETE COURSE TITLE: Arithmetic
DATE: 02/10/15 COURSE REVISION INITIATOR: M. Courson
SPONSORING DEPARTMENT: Mathematics
THE COURSE BEING REVISED IS NOT A TOPICS COURSE.
COURSE REVISION EFFECTIVE DATE: fall 2015
DESCRIPTION OF ALL COURSE REVISIONS:
Change co-requisite from none to FCS101 Foundations for College Success
JUSTIFICATION FOR EACH COURSE REVISION:
Over the last five semesters, successful completion rates (AN, BN, or CN) for all students enrolled in MAT096 have averaged about 55%. Many course and department level discussions have been held over the last several years to address growing concerns about student success and retention rates in the remedial math course sequence. Faculty members teaching one or more remedial math courses attribute high failure rates in large part to students lacking the personal and study skills needed to reach their educational goals. Instructors are finding that an increasing amount of class time is being used to work on non-content related strategies for academic success. The Foundations for College Success course is designed to help students obtain the skills and access the resources that are critical to academic success. The course description of FCS 101 Foundations for College Success is as follows:
This course is designed to assist the student in obtaining the skills, services and self-awareness needed to reach his/her educational and life objectives. Topics include self assessment, CCC student services and resources, goal setting, self-management, cultural awareness, study strategies and, critical thinking. In her report to Faculty Council in December 2014, Catherine Eloranto, Coordinator of Foundations for College Success, presented the findings of research studies which suggested a positive link between enrollment in college success courses and academic performance/retention rates/persistence rates. In addition, she presented data that showed an increase in retention and 3-yr graduation rates of students in the Criminal Justice program after the implementation of FCS101 as a program requirement in Fall 2011.
The math faculty approved making FCS101 a co-requisite for MAT096, with the goal of helping students develop the personal and academic skills that have been linked to positive academic performance and retention.
POSSIBLE IMPACT ON CURRENT CURRICULA:
FCS101 Foundations for College Success carries three college credits, which can be applied towards free elective credits in a degree program, if applicable.
Additional sections of FCS101 will need to be offered if the co-requisite is implemented for the remedial math courses. It is anticipated that approximately eleven additional sections will be needed in Fall 2015 (16 sections to be offered in Fall 2015 as compared to five sections in Fall 2014). A tentative schedule, including times, rooms, and instructors, has been created to meet this need. II. MASTER COURSE SYLLABUS
COURSE PREFIX AND NUMBER: MAT096
COMPLETE COURSE TITLE: Arithmetic
WEEKLY CONTACT HOURS FOR COURSE: LECTURE HOURS: 3 LAB/STUDIO HOURS: 0
TOTAL CONTACT HRS: 3
COURSE DESCRIPTION FOR CATALOG:
This course covers the basic arithmetic skills necessary for all higher-level math courses. Course topics include operations with whole numbers, fractions and decimal numbers; ratios and proportions; percent problems. Applications of each of these topics will be explored. Students must earn a CN or better to pass the course. Near the end of the course, students will complete a comprehensive, departmental final exam to assess their preparedness to move on to MAT098 Prealgebra.
COURSE PREREQUISITE(S): Placement test results (IF THERE IS MORE THAN ONE CONTINUE.)
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COURSE COREQUISITE(S): FCS101 Foundations for College Success (IF THERE IS MORE THAN ONE CONTINUE.)
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IMPORTANT ADVISING NOTES:
A student who is enrolled in MAT096 must be enrolled in FCS101 during the same semester unless the student successfully completed FCS101 during a prior semester. This will be flagged in CAMS. FCS101 is a co-requisite for MAT096; thus, if a student withdraws from FCS101, the student will also be dropped from MAT096. Similarly, if a student is withdrawn from FCS101 by a faculty member for failing to meet the attendance requirement, the student will automatically be withdrawn from MAT096. To minimize the instances of a withdrawal from FCS101 and consequently from MAT096, communication between the FCS101 instructor and MAT096 instructor will take place to flag any potential issues. Information about this procedure will be included in the orientation session for FCS101 instructors. Additionally, academic advisors should discuss the impact of withdrawing from FCS101 with their advisees before signing a withdrawal form. A student who submits a withdrawal form for FCS101 to the Registrar’s Office will be checked for concurrent enrollment in a remedial math course. If the student is enrolled in a math course for which FCS101 is a co-requisite, the student will be directed by the Registrar’s Office staff to obtain the signature of the Math Department Chair on the withdrawal form. Special permission to remain in the math class may be given by the student’s math instructor and the Math Department Chair in cases where the student is able to pass the math class and has an unanticipated and unavoidable reason for not being able to complete FCS101 during the given semester as scheduled (e.g. military service, change in scheduled job hours). This permission will be accomplished through the use of the existing Registration Override form; a co-requisite override requires the signature of both the instructor and the department chair. MAT096 is not a co-requisite for FCS101; therefore, if a student withdraws from MAT096, the student may remain in FCS101. If a student successfully completes MAT096 (AN, BN, CN) but does not successfully complete FCS101 (F), the student will need to retake FCS101 when enrolling in the next math course, MAT098, as FCS101 is a co-requisite for MAT098. If a student does not successfully complete MAT096 (FN, RN, W) but successfully completes FCS101 (D or better), the student must retake MAT096 before taking MAT098 but does not need to retake FCS101. If a student successfully completes neither MAT096 nor FCS101, the student should enroll in both courses the following semester.
MEASURABLE STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES/COURSE OBJECTIVES:
As the result of instructional activities, students will be able to: 1. Perform the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division on whole numbers, fractions, and decimals, by hand. 2. Evaluate numerical expressions involving whole number exponents and square roots. 3. Identify basic geometrical figures and find their perimeter and area. 4. Solve problems involving ratios and proportions. 5. Solve problems involving percents. 6. Apply knowledge of basic arithmetic skills to problem solving. 7. Reason clearly and express themselves coherently in a mathematical context. 8. Transfer basic arithmetic skills to subsequent courses such as pre- and introductory algebra.
COURSE OUTLINE:
1. Operations On Whole Numbers (textbook chapter 1 and chapter 9 section 1) including the decimal place-value system, addition, subtraction, rounding, estimation, multiplication, division, exponential notation, the order of operations, means, medians, and modes. 2. Multiplying And Dividing Fractions (textbook chapter 2) Including prime numbers, divisibility, factoring whole numbers, fractions basics, simplifying fractions, multiplying and dividing fractions. 3. Adding And Subtracting Fractions (textbook chapter 3) Including adding and subtracting fractions with like denominators, common multiples, adding and subtracting fractions with unlike denominators, adding and subtracting mixed numbers, orders of operations with fractions, and estimation. 4. Decimals (textbook chapter 4) including place value and rounding, converting between fractions and decimals, adding and subtracting decimals, multiplying and dividing decimals. 5. Area and Circumference of a Circle (textbook chapter 8 section 3) 6. Ratios and Proportions (textbook chapter 5) Including ratios, rates, unit pricing, proportions, and solving proportions. 7. Percents (textbook chapter 6) including writing percents as fractions and decimals, writing decimals and fractions as percents, solving the three types of percent problems, and applications of percent problems. 8. The Real Number System (Optional) (textbook chapter 10) including real numbers and order, adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing real numbers.