Location: H-108
Hours per Quarter:
60
Credits:
5
Textbook:
Plato Learning Interactive Mathematics "Prealgebra".
The purchase of used Plato Learning IM textbooks constitutes a violation
of Plato's copyright. Textbooks must be purchased through RTC's
bookstore. Proof of purchase through RTC is required to gain
access to Interactive Mathematics.
Course content:
- Whole number operations
- addition
- subtraction
- multiplication
- division
- exponents and bases
- rounding and estimating
- divisibility rules
- Fractions
- Equivalent fractions, greatest common factor (GCF),
reduction of fractions
- multiplication, division, reciprocals
- addition /subtraction of fractions with like denominators
- least common multiple (LCM), addition/subtraction of
fractions with unlike denominators
- ordering fractions
- Decimals:
- Place value, ordering, and rounding
- Arithmetic operations
- Conversion between decimals and fractions
- Ratio and Proportion:
- Percents: conversion between percents, decimals, and
fractions
- Percent word problems
- Applications of ratio and proportion to geometry
- Signed numbers:
- Arithmetic operations
- Absolute value
- Geometry
- Plane geometry: angles, lines, line segments, parallel and
perpendicular lines, areas and perimeters of circles, triangles,
parallelograms and other shapes
- Solid geometry: surface area and volume of cylinders, cones,
spheres, rectangular prisms
- Elementary data analysis:
- Statistics: mean, median, mode, range, quartiles
- Reading graphs and charts
- Units of measure: converting between U.S. and metric units
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