MAT 0022 Developmental Mathematics - Credits:

This is a course in the college-preparatory sequence that combines the objectives of both MAT 0018 and MAT 0028 and is designed to prepare students for college-level mathematics courses. This course is a study of the basic skills and concepts of basic algebra from the view of a college student who needs an understanding of basic algebra. Major topics include operations with integers, fractions, decimals, percents, geometric figures and their measures (including application problems), and other pre-algebra topics, and operations with signed rational numbers, simple linear equations and inequalities in one variable, operations on polynomials (including beginning techniques of factoring), integer exponents, brief introduction to radicals, introduction to graphing, applications, and other elementary algebra topics.