Topical Outline with Specific Course Objectives
- Focus on Math Study Skills
- Develop awareness of preferred learning styles and learn to make adaptations for other instructional styles.
- Develop mathematical study skills that can be utilized in college-level math courses.
- Utilize support systems (faculty office hours, labs, SI, advising, etc.) to maximize learning opportunities.
- Utilize critical thinking skills to solve problems and determine reasonableness of solutions.
- Arithmetic
- Classify sets of numbers
- Identify and apply the properties of real numbers
- Write the prime factorization of a number
- Perform operations with integers (with applications)
- Perform operations with fractions (with applications)
- Perform operations with decimals (with applications)
- Perform operations on whole number (with applications, including area and perimeter)
- Convert among percents, fractions, and decimals
- Identify place value and round decimals
- Identify place value and round whole numbers
- Simplify fractions
- Perform order of operations including absolute values
- Evaluate exponents with whole numbers
- Evaluate exponents with integers
- Compare magnitude of real numbers
- Expressions and Equations
- Solve percent equations with applications
- Evaluate absolute value expressions
- Solve application problems involving geometry (circumference of circle, perimeter of polygons, area of triangles, parallelograms, circles)
- Solve formulas with given values
- Set up and solve ratios and proportions with simple algebraic expressions
- Covert units of measurements with same measurement system
- Define variables and write an expression to represent a quantity in a problem
- Evaluate algebraic expressions
- Simplify algebraic expressions involving one variable
- Solve linear equations involving the addition and multiplication property of equalities
- Graph an inequality on a number line
Department Policies
- Comprehensive Common Final
- No calculator of any kind