The El Camino College Mathematics Placement Test may be taken only for initial mathematics course placement. Skipping a course by retaking the Mathematics Placement Test is not permitted. Topics covered include whole number arithmetic, fractions, decimals, and percent.
Emphasis is upon computational skills.
Topics covered include commutative, associative and distributive properties, arithmetic of whole numbers, mixed numbers, simple algebraic fractions, one-variable linear equations and simple word problems. This course bridges the gap between arithmetic and formal algebra, developing number sense and operation sense, in order to formulate and solve algebraic equations with integers, fractions, and percents. Algebraic principles are applied to problems from a variety of fields. This course reviews introductory algebraic concepts and includes the study of real numbers, the solutions and applications of linear equations and inequalities as well as systems of linear equations, and introduces coordinate graphing of linear equations, factoring techniques, simplification of rational and radical expressions, and the solution of quadratic equations. Mathematics 40 is equivalent to one year of high school algebra.