Mar 28, 2024  
2021-2022 Undergraduate Academic Catalog 
    
2021-2022 Undergraduate Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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MA 125A - College Algebra I

4 lecture hours 1 lab hours 4 credits
Course Description
This course is the same as MA 125. The ‘A’ designation after the course number indicates this is a special section taught with extra math lab hours built in as a requirement for successful completion if the course. (prereq: consent of instructor) 
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  • Perform the four fundamental operations with signed numbers and polynomials
  • Remove and insert symbols of grouping
  • Perform basic operations with exponents and radicals
  • Solve systems of two equations in two unknowns
  • Find special products
  • Factor polynomials
  • Reduce a given fraction to lowest terms
  • Perform the four fundamental operations with fractions
  • Simplify complex fractions
  • Solve fractional equations
  • Solve quadratic equations
  • Solve word problems leading to algebraic equations

Prerequisites by Topic
  • None

Course Topics
  • Fundamental operations
  • Equations and applications
  • Systems of equations
  • Special products and factoring
  • Operations with algebraic fractions
  • Quadratic equations

Coordinator
Dr. Anthony van Groningen



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