This course strengthens understanding of mathematics fundamentals and serves as preparation for higher-level mathematics courses. Topics include percents, ratios, the real number system, absolute value, the arithmetic of the rational numbers, linear equations and inequalities, absolute value equations and inequalities, systems of equations and inequalities in two variables, graphs, polynomials and factoring, rational expressions and equations and exponents. This course deals with exponents, radicals, systems of linear equations in two and three variables, quadratic equations and inequalities, rational equations and inequalities, relations and functions, graphing and transformations and exponential and logarithmic expressions, functions and equations. Topics include polynomial and rational functions, exponential and logarithmic functions, circular and trigonometric functions, the trigonometry of right and oblique triangles, applications of trigonometry, trigonometric identities and complex numbers. This is a course in differential calculus.
Class meets four days a week.
This is a course in integral calculus. Class meets four days a week. This course is an introduction to elementary descriptive and inferential statistics. Topics include frequency distributions, measures of central tendency and variation, elementary probability theory, binomial and normal distributions, hypothesis testing, tests on two means, sample estimation of parameters, confidence intervals, coefficient of correlation and linear regression. This course is a continuation of the calculus sequence.