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Dec 11, 2024
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MATH 102 - Technical Mathematics Credits: 4 Lecture Contact Hours: 4 Description: Technical Mathematics provides the practical mathematics skills needed in a wide variety of occupational programs. Students in this course will address topics including measurement, basic algebra, geometry, right triangle trigonometry, graphing and statistics.
Prerequisites: MATH 047 with a minimum grade of 2.0, or overall high school GPA of 2.8 or higher, a minimum score of 16 ACT-Math, 22 SAT-Math, 75 CPT-Arithmetic, 28 CPT-Elementary Algebra, 260 NGA-Arithmetic or 230 NGA-Quantitative Reasoning, Algebra and Statistics Corequisites: None. Recommended: None.
Course Category: Liberal Arts | Mathematics This course counts toward Schoolcraft’s General Education Requirements. This Course is Typically Offered: Fall, Winter Check Course Availability
Course Competencies
- Utilize knowledge of ratios, percentages and proportions to solve technical application problems.
- Determine measurements using technical tools.
- Apply conversion equations to technical problems.
- Calculate conversions between mixed numbers, fractions, decimals and percents.
- Analyze measurement parameters such as accuracy, precision and tolerance.
- Develop equations and inequalities to represent problems of a technical nature.
- Solve equations of a technical nature with one or two variables.
- Solve linear inequalities.
- Calculate angles, perimeter, area and volume with geometric formulas.
- Solve problems using trigonometric ratios and the Pythagorean Theorem.
- Analyze the construction and interpretation of graphs.
- Calculate measures of central tendency of data.
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