Basic Mathematics

Catalog description

This course is designed to help students develop the basic skills necessary for success in Elementary Algebra. The course involves a variety of teaching and learning methods: lecture, discussion, cooperative learning, lab-enhanced learning, and others. The major topics in the course are operations with numbers (whole numbers, integers, fractions, decimals and real numbers) and application topics (ratios and proportions, percents and geometry). An introduction to Algebra will also be discussed. This college preparatory course does not apply toward the associates degree.