Objectives
1. Discuss the academic habits of mind and learning strategies necessary to be successful in a gateway mathematics course.
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2. Evaluate campus resources (e.g., tutoring, counseling, and other services) that will support success in gateway mathematics coursework.
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3. Ethically use technology to solve mathematical problems and communicate results.
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4. Master the foundational skills needed to be successful in a gateway Precalculus Algebra course:
a. Use analytical, graphical, and numerical representations to solve absolute value, radical, polynomial, rational, exponential, and logarithmic equations with both real and complex solutions.
b. Use analytical, graphical, and numerical representations to solve absolute value, polynomial and rational inequalities with real solutions.
c. Use analytical, graphical, and numerical representations to analyze absolute value, radical, polynomial, rational, exponential and logarithmic functions with both real and complex zeros.
d. Use multiple methods to solve problems involving systems of equations and apply to decomposing partial fractions.
e. Construct the composition and inverse of functions.
f. Use polynomial, exponential and logarithmic functions to model various real world situations in order to analyze, draw conclusions, and make predictions.
a. Use analytical, graphical, and numerical representations to solve absolute value, radical, polynomial, rational, exponential, and logarithmic equations with both real and complex solutions.
b. Use analytical, graphical, and numerical representations to solve absolute value, polynomial and rational inequalities with real solutions.
c. Use analytical, graphical, and numerical representations to analyze absolute value, radical, polynomial, rational, exponential and logarithmic functions with both real and complex zeros.
d. Use multiple methods to solve problems involving systems of equations and apply to decomposing partial fractions.
e. Construct the composition and inverse of functions.
f. Use polynomial, exponential and logarithmic functions to model various real world situations in order to analyze, draw conclusions, and make predictions.