Math 250	COLLEGE ARITHMETIC	REEDLEY COLLEGE
Mr. George Tindall	    SYLLABUS	Summer 2004
	222-3990	Cell	349-0460

COURSE DESCRIPTION: Operations with whole numbers, fractions decimals, ratios and proportions, percents, order of operations, English and metric systems, word problems, as well as beginning geometry and algebra.

TEXTBOOK:	BASIC COLLEGE MATHEMATICS Tobey & Slater

OBJECTIVES:	Students should improve their abilities to:
Add, subtract, multiply, and divide whole numbers, decimals, and fractions.
Correctly set up and solve simple proportions.
Solve percent problems.
Convert back and forth between percents, decimals, proper fractions, improper
Fractions, and mixed numbers.
Use some basic geometry concepts.
Understand order of operations.
Solve simple equations.
Translate word problems to equations.

ATTENDANCE:
Students should be in class, and on time. At the beginning of the course, each
Student is given 20 bonus points for attendance. For each absence the student loses
4 of those points, and each tardy costs the student 2 of those points.

HOMEWORK:
Homework will be assigned for most class periods. Homework will be due at the
Beginning of the next class period. Each day’s homework is worth up to 10 points.
For each unit (time up to the first test.. .and between successive tests) a student’s
Homework scores will be averaged, and added to that unit test score.