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Course Description:

Discrete Mathematics is a one semester elective course including a wide variety of topics dealing with discrete concepts and content of mathematics. The purpose of the course is to provide students with a study of a broad range of discrete ideas and concepts. It is not the intent that this course be used as a replacement for a university level course of discrete mathematics.

The major units of mathematical content deal with social applications and decision making, techniques of counting with combinatorics and permutations, graph theory, recursion, algorithms, figurate numbers, sequences and series, Pascal type triangles, integer triangles, modular math, probability, polynomials and modeling.

Teaching and Learning Methodology and Philosophy:

Throughout the semester there is a focus on learning through a constructivist approach. Patterns are used to clarify the major ideas and concepts of the course. Considerable time is spent making connections among the concepts and content studied.

Student Expectations:

Students are expected to be in class, and are expected to contribute and share both in large and small group settings. Students are expected to complete out-of-class assignments prior to coming to class.

Assessment Practices, Procedures, and Processes:

StudentÕs grades for the quarter are determined through the assessment of in-class and out-of-class problem sets; group and individual assignments; quizzes and examinations; and projects as given..

Quarter grades are each worth 40% of the final grade. The final examination is 20% of the final grade. Since students are able to use notes, problem sets, and past assessments on the final examination it is important and imperative that students maintain and keep a comprehensive and detailed notebook of work done during the semester.

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