The emphasis is on rewriting and drafting, developing writing fluency, and basic sentence structure. Students will develop basic composition skills in preparation for English 0099. Students focus on revising and editing essays, sentence structure, usage, and mechanics.
Students gain knowledge of elementary algebraic concepts in preparation for intermediate algebra.
The four arithmetic operations with signed numbers are performed. The solutions to linear equations and inequalities, simplifying exponents and polynomials, and solving second degree equations using factoring are topics studied. Students are prepared for success in college-level mathematics. They study basic operations on algebraic fractions and irrational expressions. Students graph the solutions to linear equations, and apply integrated problem solving strategies using quadratic equations and systems of equations.