MAT0022 — Essentials in Math I and II
This combined/compressed course in math is designed to help students already versed in some of the arithmetic and the introductory algebra topics develop the basic skills necessary for success in MAT1033, Intermediate Algebra. This course features accelerated coverage of topics from two separate courses, MAT0018 Basic Mathematics and MAT0028 Elementary Algebra, and is intended for students with more advanced experience and skills than would take MAT0018 but those still requiring some review of arithmetic who would not yet be ready to take MAT0028. The course involves a variety of teaching and learning methods, including, lecture, discussion, cooperative learning, lab-enhanced learning, and others. The major topics in the course are operations with whole numbers, integers, fractions, decimals, including order of operations and absolute value; real numbers and their properties; exponents and polynomials, including factoring; linear equations and linear inequalities; introduction to applications including ratios and proportions, percent, and geometry; and introductions to rational expressions, radicals (square roots), and graphing in two variables. This course does not apply toward the associate's degree.