Emphasizes mathematical structures. Topics include numeration and number systems, the metric system, elementary algebraic and geometric structures. This course provides a preparation for more advanced study in mathematics. I Primarily for students in technological career programs. Basic arithmetic and algebraic operations, functions and graphs, linear systems, factoring, fractional expressions, quadratic equations, and basic trigonometry.
Emphasis is on basic skills and applications.
3 credits MATH115 Elementary Statistics Primarily for business, science, liberal arts, psychology, and education majors. Topics studied include descriptive measures for empirical data, theory of probability, probability distributions, the sampling distributions of statistics from large and small samples, estimation theory, hypothesis testing, correlation, and regression. Students will learn to perform experiments and do simulations. Topics include producing graphic and numeric descriptive data, forming confidence intervals, performing hypothesis tests and linear and multiple regression analysis. I Primarily for students of accounting, business, economics, management, information science, technologies and related fields.