Welcome to the Oakton Community College MAT 052 course home page. Here you will find information shared by all sections of the course. In the frame to the left there are a number of useful links including the textbook website, if there is one, and the generic course syllabus. Further down this frame there are links to individual instructors' resources for their specific sections.
Prerequisites
Credit in MAT
047, or concurrent enrollment in MAT
051, or an appropriate score on the OCC Mathematics Assessment Test.
Course Description
This is an introduction to sets, signed numbers, equations, exponents,
polynomials, factoring and graphing.
Course Objectives
A. Apply the properties and perform the fundamental operations with integers and rational numbers.
B. Perform the algebraic operations and factoring with polynomials.
C. Perform the algebraic operations with rational expressions
D. Solve first degree equations and inequalities in one variable.
E. Solve and graph first degree equations in two variables.
F. Solve systems of first degree equations in two variables.
G. Solve second degree equations in one variable.
H. Apply new concepts and techniques learned to solving word problems in each area.
Instructional Materials
Required Textbook:
Introductory Algebra by K. Elayn Martin-Gay, 2nd Edition, Prentice Hall, 2003.
A scientific calculator is required.