SVCC Catalog/Handbook 2017-2018
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154 Southside Virginia Community College<br />
MATHEMATICS<br />
MTH 103 Applied Technical Mathematics I (3 Cr)<br />
Presents a review of arithmetic, elements of algebra,<br />
geometry, and trigonometry. Directs applications to<br />
specialty areas. Lecture 3 hours per week. Prerequisites:<br />
demonstrated proficiency on the placement examination<br />
or successful completion of MTE 1,2,3.<br />
MTH 120 Introduction to Mathematics (3 Cr)<br />
Introduces number systems, logic, basic algebra, and<br />
descriptive statistics. Lecture 3 hours per week. Prerequisites:<br />
demonstrated proficiency on the placement<br />
examination or successful completion of ENF 1 or ENF<br />
2, MTE 1,2,3. (Intended for occupational/technical<br />
programs.)<br />
MTH 141 Business Mathematics I<br />
(3 Cr)<br />
Provides instruction, review, and drill in percentage, cash<br />
and trade discounts, mark-up, payroll, sales, property and<br />
other taxes, simple and compound interest, bank<br />
discounts, loans, investments, and annuities. Part I of II.<br />
Lecture 3 hours per week. Prerequisites: demonstrated<br />
proficiency on the placement examination or successful<br />
completion of ENF 1 or ENF 2, MTE 1,2,3.<br />
MTH 151 Mathematics for the Liberal Arts I (3 Cr)<br />
Presents topics in sets, logic, numeration systems, geometric<br />
systems, and elementary computer concepts.<br />
Lecture 3 hours per week. Prerequisites: demonstrated<br />
proficiency on the placement examination or successful<br />
completion of ENF 1 or ENF 2, MTE 1,2,3,4,5.<br />
MTH 152 Mathematics for the Liberal Arts II (3 Cr)<br />
Presents topics in functions, combinations, probability,<br />
statistics and algebraic systems. Lecture 3 hours per<br />
week. Prerequisites: demonstrated proficiency on the<br />
placement examination or successful completion of ENF<br />
1 or ENF 2, MTE 1,2,3,4,5.<br />
MTH 163 Precalculus I<br />
(3 Cr)<br />
Presents college algebra, matrices, and algebraic, exponential,<br />
and logarithmic functions. Lecture 3 hours per<br />
week. Prerequisites: demonstrated proficiency on the<br />
placement examination or successful completion of ENF<br />
1 or ENF 2, MTE 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9.<br />
MTH 164 Precalculus II<br />
(3 Cr)<br />
Presents trigonometry, analytic geometry, and sequences<br />
and series. Lecture 3 hours per week. Prerequisite:<br />
MTH 163.<br />
MTH 168 Precalculus II with Introductory Calculus<br />
(3 Cr)<br />
Presents trigonometric functions, analytic geometry,<br />
limits, continuity, and an introduction to the derivative.<br />
Lecture 3 hours per week. Prerequisite: MTH 163 or<br />
equivalent. (Credit will not be awarded for both MTH<br />
164 and MTH 168.)<br />
MTH 175 Calculus of One Variable I (3 Cr)<br />
Presents differential calculus of one variable including<br />
the theory of limits, derivatives, differentials, antiderivatives<br />
and applications to algebraic and transcendental<br />
functions. Designed for mathematical, physical, and engineering<br />
science programs. Lecture 3 hours per week.<br />
Prerequisites: demonstrated proficiency on the placement<br />
examination or successful completion of ENF 1 or ENF<br />
2, MTE 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9. (Credit will not be awarded for<br />
more than one of MTH 173, MTH 175, or MTH 273.)<br />
MTH 176 Calculus of One Variable II (3 Cr)<br />
Continues the study of integral calculus of one variable<br />
including indefinite integral, definite integral and methods<br />
of integration with applications to algebraic and<br />
transcendental functions. Designed for mathematical,<br />
physical, and engineering science programs. Lecture 3<br />
hours per week. Prerequisite: MTH 175. (Credit will not<br />
be awarded for more than one of MTH 174, MTH<br />
176, or MTH 274.)<br />
MTH 241 Statistics I<br />
(3 Cr)<br />
Covers descriptive statistics, elementary probability,<br />
probability distributions, estimation, and hypothesis testing.<br />
Lecture 3 hours per week. Prerequisites: a placement<br />
recommendation for MTH 241, and successful completion<br />
of MTH 163 or MTH 166 or equivalent. (Credit will<br />
not be awarded for both MTH 240 and MTH 241.)<br />
MTH 242 Statistics II<br />
(3 Cr)<br />
Continues the study of estimation and hypothesis testing<br />
with emphasis on correlation and regression, analysis<br />
of variance, chi-square tests, and non-parametric<br />
methods. Lecture 3 hours per week. Prerequisite: MTH<br />
241 or equivalent.<br />
MTH 273 Calculus I<br />
(4 Cr)<br />
Presents topics in differential calculus of one variable<br />
including the theory of limits, derivatives, differentials,<br />
definite and indefinite integrals and applications to algebraic<br />
and transcendental functions. Designed for mathematical,<br />
physical, and engineering science programs.<br />
Lecture 4 hours per week. Prerequisites: demonstrated<br />
proficiency on the placement examination or successful<br />
completion of ENF 1 or ENF 2, MTH 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9.
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