Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon

This class will be organized as "flipped class."  In a flipped class, the traditional activities that occur during class meetings vs. outside of class meetings are "flipped" so students watch videos and study the textbook or other "lecture notes" outside of class and, during class, students work on practice problems, something that traditionally would have taken place at home as "homework."

In our class, students will be given access to "online lecture notes" along with videos of  "lectures" that show the completion of class notes: students will be expected read/study the online lecture notes and watch/study the videos of class notes in advance of our class meetings each week.

During our class meetings, the instructor will answer questions about the content students read & watched before class and often give a short presentation (e.g., go over a couple of examples).  Then students will organize into small groups and work on practice problems that will help prepare them for the weekly graded assignment.

I recommend that you do NOT purchase the textbook that listed at the Bookstore for this class. The content of the textbook is accessible for FREE online. If you discover that you would prefer to have a hard-copy of the textbook, you can purchase it at that time; but I don't think you will need it so I encourage you to wait until our class starts before purchasing the textbook.

One thing to consider is that MTH 112 is the 2nd course in a two-course Precalculus sequence that starts with MTH 111. There are some topics that we'll study as an "extension of what we learned in MTH 111" and it's much more pleasant to confront those topics if you're familiar what was studied in MTH 111.  Even more important: the MTH 111/112 Precalculus sequence is designed to prepare students for Calculus, and the content in MTH 111 is a big part of that. So I encourage caution if you're considering skipping MTH 111 -- if you took a comparable course at an other college/school then that should be fine but if you don't think you have taken a precalculus course before (or if you have taken such a course before but it was a lifetime ago and have probably forgotten most of it), you may be better off starting with MTH 111, the first course in the Precalculus sequence.

If you have any questions, please email me at phaberma@pcc.edu.

Although we'll be meeting in-person, I'll ask that the weekly Graded Worksheets are submitted in D2L as PDF documents. This will require that you scan your completed Graded Worksheets and save them as PDFs. If you don't have access to a proper scanner, you can use a free app for your smart phone that can convert photos of your completed assignments into PDFs.