Math Lab Course Descriptions
The information below is for Fall 2009. The courses listed will operate differently in Spring 2010; click here for more information.
General Information:
- Each multi-unit course is broken into a sequence of three or four shorter courses, called modules, so that students can receive credit even if they don’t complete the entire course in one term.
- Students are given a syllabus that explains what they need to do in order to successfully complete the module they are enrolled in.
- Students can only register for one module at a time. In multi-unit courses, once you pass a module with a grade of C or better, then you register for the next module in the sequence. Because the Math Lab courses are all open-entry/open-exit, you can add the next module at any time during the semester, except for the last few weeks.
- Students continue this process until they finish the whole sequence for the course that they are studying in the Math Lab.
- Credit will be awarded upon successful completion of the course work for each module.
- For scheduling purposes, students must go to the lab as soon as possible after the semester starts to pick a timeslot (that is, the time at which they will attend the Math Lab). This also determines who will be their Math Lab instructor.
Math 200L (1.0 unit) – Arithmetic of Whole Numbers
Note: Math 201L1 is not being offered in the Fall 2009 semester
Note: Math 121L1 is not being offered in the Fall 2009 semester
Note: Math 123L1 is not being offered in the Fall 2009 semester
Note: Math 151L1 is not being offered in the Fall 2009 semester
- This self-paced course is designed primarily for students who need to learn or review their basic addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. This course is offered only in the Math Lab; there is no Math 200 lecture course.
- Coursework entails taking four subject tests, each worth 15% of the total grade, and a module test (final) worth 40% of the total grade.
Note: Math 201L1 is not being offered in the Fall 2009 semester
- When taken in sequence, these three self-paced courses are equivalent to Math 201 (3 units).
- Your grade in each module is based 60% on two chapter tests (each one is 30% of your grade) and 40% on a module test (final).
- Math 201L1 content: the arithmetic of whole numbers and signed numbers.
- Math 201L2 content: the arithmetic of fractions, mixed numbers and decimals. Prerequisite: Math 201L1, with a grade of C or better.
- Math 201L3 content: ratio and proportion, unit analysis and percent. Prerequisite: Math 201L2, with a grade of C or better.
Note: Math 121L1 is not being offered in the Fall 2009 semester
- When taken in sequence, these four self-paced courses are equivalent to Math 121 (5.0 units).
- Students in these courses can choose either of two instruction modes: they can read the textbook and do written assignments from the textbook, or they can work on a computer, using the Internet-based learning system known as ALEKS.
- For students working from the textbook, grading in these courses is based on written tests. Each course covers two chapters, and the grade is based 60% on chapter tests and 40% on a module test that covers the whole course. The last module test, taken in Math 121L4, covers the entire four-course sequence.
- For students who are working in ALEKS, grading in these courses is based on assessments taken in ALEKS.
- ALEKS stands for Assessment and Learning in Knowledge Spaces. You can find more information on ALEKS at the ALEKS web site. You can use ALEKS at home as well as in the Math Lab, provided you have a computer with Internet access.
- Math 121L1 content: the study of real numbers, algebraic expressions, and applications. Prerequisites: Math 201 or Math 201L3 or Business 151, with a grade of C or better.
- Math 121L2 content: solving linear equations and inequalities in one variable, graphing and determining linear equations in two variables, and applications. Prerequisite: Math 121L1, with a grade of C or better.
- Math 121L3 content: exponents, polynomials, factoring, and applications. Prerequisite: Math 121L2, with a grade of C or better.
- Math 121L4 content: rational expressions and equations, roots and radicals, and applications. Prerequisite: Math 121L3, with a grade of C or better.
Note: Math 123L1 is not being offered in the Fall 2009 semester
- When taken in sequence, these four self-paced courses are equivalent to Math 123 (5.0 units).
- Students in these courses can choose either of two instruction modes: they can read the textbook and do written assignments from the textbook, or they can work on a computer, using the Internet-based learning system known as ALEKS.
- For students working from the textbook, grading in these courses is based on written tests. Each course covers two chapters, and the grade is based 60% on chapter tests and 40% on a module test that covers the whole course. The last module test, taken in Math 123L4, covers the entire four-course sequence.
- For students who are working in ALEKS, grading in these courses is based on assessments taken in ALEKS.
- ALEKS stands for Assessment and Learning in Knowledge Spaces. You can find more information on ALEKS at the ALEKS web site. You can use ALEKS at home as well as in the Math Lab, provided you have a computer with Internet access.
- Math 123L1 content: Review of elementary algebra plus more advanced problems including linear equations in one and two variables, graphs, systems of linear equations and inequalities, and applications. Prerequisites: Math 121 or Math 121L4, with a grade of C or better.
- Math 123L2 content: Relations and functions, variation, polynomial arithmetic, factoring polynomials, using factoring to solve polynomial equations, and applications. Prerequisite: Math 123L1, with a grade of C or better.
- Math 123L3 content: Rational expressions and equations, radicals, rational exponents, radical equations, complex numbers, quadratic equations, completing the square, the quadratic formula, quadratic functions, parabolas, and applications. Prerequisite: Math 123L2, with a grade of C or better.
- Math 123L4 content: absolute value equations and inequalities, inverse, exponential and logarithmic functions, equations involving exponential and logarithmic functions, circles, ellipses, hyperbolas, nonlinear systems, second-degree inequalities, systems of inequalities, sequences and series, arithmetic sequences, geometric sequences, the binomial theorem, and application. Prerequisite: Math 123L3, with a grade of C or better.
Note: Math 151L1 is not being offered in the Fall 2009 semester
- These courses are designed for technology students electing not to pursue an engineering pre-calculus mathematics program.
- Technical Math is offered only in the Math Lab; there is no Math 151 lecture course.
- Your grade in each module is based 60% on two chapter tests (each one is 30% of your grade) and 40% on a module test (final).
- Math 151L1 content: Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of whole numbers, fractions, and decimals; ratio, proportion, and percent; conversion between decimals and fractions; applications involving arithmetic, ratio, proportion, and percent; and problem solving techniques. Prerequisite: None. However, skills from Math 201 are needed.
- Math 151L2 content: Measurement, including metric and English systems of measurement, unit conversions, use of real-world measurement devices; order of operations and evaluation of algebraic expressions; addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of positive and negative numbers and algebraic expressions; scientific notation; solving equations. Prerequisite: Math 151L1, with a grade of C or better.
- Math 151L3 content: Plane geometry, including angles, Pythagorean theorem, polygons, circles, area, perimeter, and circumference; basic trigonometry. Prerequisite: Math 151L2, with a grade of C or better.
- A credit/no-credit course in the Math Lab designed for students who need extra help in a lecture section of Math 201, 121, or 123. Math 205 may also be taken by students who want to review any of the those courses.
- Credit will be awarded upon completion of twenty-four hours of attendance in the Math Lab plus additional work assigned by the student's Math Lab instructor.
- A credit/no- credit course in the Math Lab designed for students who need extra help with a mathematics lecture class other than Math 201, 121, or 123.
- Credit will be awarded upon completion of twenty-four hours of attendance in the Math Lab plus additional work assigned by the student's Math Lab instructor.
