Osceola Math Depot

General Course Information

 

Common Course Number: MAT 0018C

Course Title: Developmental Mathematics I

Contact Hour Breakdown:

• Credit: 3

• Contact Hours (Lecture + Lab): 3

• Lab: 1

Discipline: Mathematics

Prerequisites: None

Co-requisites: None

Catalog Description

This is the first course in the college-preparatory sequence (MAT 0018C and MAT 0028C) designed to prepare students for:

• MAT 1033C - Intermediate Algebra

• MGF 1106 - College Math

• and STA1001 - Introduction to Statistical Reasoning

  

This course emphasizes the fundamental mathematical operations with application to beginning algebra. Significant time will be devoted to connections between mathematics and other academic disciplines and to applications outside the educational settings.

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Minimum grade of C required for successful completion.

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This course does not apply toward mathematics requirements in general education or toward any associate degree.

 

Major Topics/Skills

• Operations with integers

• Fractions, decimals and percent

• Geometric figures and their measures

• Properties of rational numbers

• Operations on rational numbers

• Simplification of polynomials

• Equation solving techniques