Math 95 - Fundamental Mathematical Skills
- Prerequisites: Remedial status as determined by the University
- Frequency: Fall (I)
- Student Body: Intended for students fulfilling the remediation requirements in mathematics.
- Credits: 3. Does not count for degree credit.
- Recent Texts: Beginning algebra, by Tobeya and Slater.
- Course Coordinator: David Camacho
- Background and Goals: Math 95 covers the fundamental mathematics necessary both as survival skills in daily life and as tool for success in college. Includes arithmetic procedures and their applications. Intended for students fulfilling the remediation requirements in mathematics.
- Alternatives: n/a
- Subsequent Courses: the course prepares the student for Math 101.
Content coverage:
Topics covered will include: - Review of arithmetic skills, properties of real numbers
- Algebraic expressions, absolute value, simplification and evaluation
- Solving linear equations for a variable, abstracting an algebraic expression or equation from words, linear inequalities
- Cartesian coordinate system. Plotting points, graphing y = mx + b.
- Word problems involving simple interest, discounts, distance-rate-time, geometric formulas for areas and perimeters of triangles, quadrilaterals and circles. Unit conversion, lengths and volumes, American system.
- Factoring trinomials and factoring by grouping.
- Quadratic equations. Solving by factoring and by the quadratic formula.
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