Arrangements for making up missed material are to be made with the instructor within 1 week. There will be homework on a daily basis. As with most college courses, plan on about one hours out of class for every classroom hour, averaged over the week. Take good notes. Learn how to read and write math.
Success comes with practice on a regular basis.
Like any musician or professional athlete, you need a regular training schedule. Let's get together the night before the concert and practice for 7 hours. Learning tools you might take advantage of The NMC learning center located in the back of the Osterlin library has many Text books and multimedia tools such as CD's available for your use. There is one in particular that I thought would go good with this class. It is set up as multiple choice and covers a lot of the basic arithmetic operations that will be covered in this class.