Catalog - Virginia Intermont College
Catalog - Virginia Intermont College
Catalog - Virginia Intermont College
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Programs of Study 220<br />
Mathematics Courses<br />
131-FINITE MATHEMATICS. This course presents topics in sets, logic, different base<br />
conversions, elementary computer concepts, number sense with percentages,<br />
linear equations with applications, sequences, and elementary probability.<br />
Three hours a week. Credit, three semester hours. Offered fall and spring<br />
semesters.<br />
140-COLLEGE ALGEBRA. Prerequisite: Permission of Instructor based on placement<br />
test score. This course presents topics in order of operations, operations with<br />
formulas, distance and midpoint, simplifying expressions, solving equations,<br />
linear graphing, domain and range, laws of exponents, operations with quadratics<br />
including FOIL, factoring quadratics, geometry figures, Pythagorean Theorem,<br />
simplifying radical expressions, imaginary numbers and solving simple rational<br />
equations.<br />
Three hours a week. Credit, three semester hours. Offered fall and spring<br />
semesters.<br />
151-PRE-CALCULUS ALGEBRA. Prerequisite: Mathematics 140 or permission of<br />
instructor based on placement test score. Review of factoring roots of polynomials,<br />
relations and functions, rational exponents, systems of equalities and inequalities,<br />
determinants, matrices, exponential and logarithmic functions, mathematical<br />
induction, binomial theorem, progressions, combinations and permutations, the<br />
Cartesian coordinate system of the plane, complex numbers. Solution of word<br />
problems is emphasized.<br />
Three hours a week. Credit, three semester hours. Offered fall and spring<br />
semesters.<br />
152-PRE-CALCULUS TRIGONOMETRY. Prerequisite: Mathematics 151 or<br />
permission of instructor based upon placement test score. Mathematics 131<br />
cannot be used as a prerequisite. Definitions and graphs of trigonometric<br />
functions, identities, equations, solutions of triangles, analytic trigonometry,<br />
including circular and inverse trigonometric functions, logarithmic and exponential<br />
functions. Demoivre’s Theorem, conic sections, curve sketching, and introduction<br />
to analytic geometry.<br />
Three hours a week. Credit, three semester hours. Offered fall and spring<br />
semesters.<br />
202-CONCEPTS OF MODERN MATHEMATICS I. Prerequisite: Mathematics 131 or<br />
151. Critical thinking and problem solving, logic, set theory, elementary number<br />
theory, ratio proportion and percents.<br />
Three hours per week. Credit, three semester hours. Offered fall semester.<br />
<strong>Virginia</strong> <strong>Intermont</strong> <strong>College</strong> 2012–2013 <strong>College</strong> <strong>Catalog</strong>
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