WEST PLAINS, Mo. – The Missouri State University Outreach Program will offer a new math course during the 2014 spring semester designed to help area residents who are interested in teaching high school math classes someday or who would simply like to earn additional math credits.
Algebraic Structures (MTH 315) is a three-credit-hour class that will be offered via interactive television (ITV) from 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The class explores various mathematical topics with emphasis on reading and writing proofs and the development of mathematical maturity, officials said. The class serves as a prerequisite for many of the upper-level math courses needed for a secondary education degree with a mathematics emphasis, officials said.
The only prerequisite needed for taking Algebraic Structures is successful completion of Calculus I (MTH 261), they added.
Also being offered this spring as part of Missouri State-West Plains’ course listing is Statistical Methods (MTH 240). This three-credit-hour class set for 8 to 9:20 a.m. Mondays and Wednesdays covers statistics, elementary probability, estimation and tests of simple hypothesis involving both large and small sample methods, and linear correlation and regression, according to Assistant Professor of Mathematics Jerry Trick, the class’ instructor.
The class, he said, can be applied to requirements for Missouri State’s Bachelor of Science in Secondary Mathematics degree. Students wishing to take the class need to have successfully completed College Algebra (MTH 135) or higher.
Registration for the 2014 spring semester is going on now for both Missouri State-West Plains and Missouri State Outreach classes.
For more information about these or other courses that lead toward the Bachelor of Science in Secondary Mathematics degree, contact Trick at 417-255-7292 or JerryTrick@MissouriState.edu.
For admissions and registration procedures for Outreach classes on the West Plains campus, contact Missouri State Outreach Coordinator Deanna Smith at 417-255-7911 or DeannaSmith@MissouriState.edu.
For more information about admission and registration procedures for Missouri State-West Plains classes, call the admissions office at 417-255-7955.