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Dec 05, 2024
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MATH 045 - Basic Mathematics Credits: 4 Lecture Contact Hours: 4 Description: The topics covered in this course include arithmetic with whole numbers, fractions, decimals, percentages and proportions. In addition, several topics from geometry are included.
Prerequisites: Minimum score of 11 ACT-Math, 15 SAT-Math, 23 CPT-Arithmetic or 220 NGA-Arithmetic. Competence with addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of whole numbers without the aid of a calculator. Corequisites: None. Recommended: None.
Course Category: Applied Liberal Arts | Mathematics This Course is Typically Offered: Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall Check Course Availability
Course Competencies
- Calculate sums, differences, products and quotients involving fractions.
- Solve ax = b and x + a = b where a and b are whole numbers, fractions or decimals.
- Convert between fraction, decimal and percent forms of a number.
- Compare quantities using ratios or unit rates.
- Solve consumer applications.
- Calculate sums, differences, products and quotients involving decimals.
- Solve proportion problems.
- Solve percentage problems.
- Apply the order of operations procedure.
- Apply mathematical terminology, such as sum, product, difference, quotient, commutative, associative, factor, multiple, prime, etc.
- Calculate perimeters of polygons and circumference of a circle.
- Calculate areas of rectangles, triangles and circles.
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