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Apr 30, 2024
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Catalog 2015-2016 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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MATH 099X Accelerated Intermediate Algebra for STEM5 credits
This course is a single-quarter refresher of both Elementary and Intermediate Algebra skills to prepare for STEM courses. Topics include solving and graphing linear, quadratic, exponential, logarithmic, rational and radical functions; roots and exponents; complex numbers; inequalities; and systems of equations.
Prerequisites: MATH 087 or equivalent placement score.
Quarters Offered: Fall, Winter, Spring
Student Outcomes/Competencies:
Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
- Demonstrate appropriate use of integers, rational, and irrational numbers in problem solving
- Solve problems involving linear, quadratic, logarithmic, and exponential equations and functions
- Graph linear, quadratic, and exponential functions
- Apply the rules of exponents
- Add, subtract, multiply and divide polynomials
- Use factoring to solve equations
- Apply the properties and laws of logarithms
- Use factoring to simplify rational expressions and to solve rational equations
- Identify functions and use functional notation and terminology
- Simplify radical expressions and solve radical equations
- Solve and graph problems involving inequalities
- Solve formulas for a specified variable
- Solve systems of equations in two variables
- Solve problems involving complex numbers
- Use technology appropriately as a tool for calculations and to gather, research, and analyze quantitative information
- Use the mathematical critical thinking skills of problem solving, pattern recognition, substitution, following structural rules, and quantitative modeling to solve problems involving basic and intermediate algebra
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