Course Description
This course is designed to support students enrolled in MATH 1704. The student will study problem solving techniques that involve concepts such as estimation, solving linear equations and systems of equations, graphing functions, and using functions as models, interpreting graphs and Venn diagrams, solving problems involving percents, and using appropriate formulas.
Prerequisite(s)
Appropriate assessment score - Must be completed prior to taking this course. MATH 1704 - Must be completed at the same time as this course.
At the end of this course, students will be able to:
- Create Venn diagrams to represent sets and perform operations with sets.
- Use estimation techniques to arrive at an approximate answer.
- Graph functions and linear equations.
- Solve systems of equations.
- Solve applied problems involving percents and formulas.
- Compute measures of central tendency and dispersion.
General Education Distribution Area
Mathematics
Topical Outline
Along with teaching study skills, the topics in MATH 1704 will be reinforced.
Schedule – list of topics covered in MATH 1704
- Study skills
- Problem solving and critical thinking, estimation, graphs, and mathematical models
- Basic set concepts, Venn diagrams, and set operations
- Survey problems
- Statements, negations quantified statements, compound statements, truth tables
- Conditional statements, arguments, and truth tables
- Graphing functions, linear functions
- Systems of linear equations, linear inequalities, linear programming, modeling data
- Percent, sales tax, discounts, income tax
- Simple interest, compound interest, annuities, car loans
- Mortgages, credit cards
- Sampling, frequency distributions, measures of central tendency and dispersion, normal distribution
- Problem solving with the normal distribution, scatter plots, correlation, regression lines
- Voting and apportionment methods
- Graph theory, paths, circuits, trees