Welcome to the Oakton Community College MAT 120 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
MAT 052 (or appropriate score on Mathematics Assessment Test) and MAT 053 (or geometry proficiency). MAT 053 and MAT 120 may be taken concurrently.

Course Description
This course covers real and complex numbers, exponents, polynomials, radicals, first and second degree equations, systems of equations, inequalities, rational expressions and logarithms.

Course Objectives

A. Demonstrate an understanding of the real numbers and their properties. B. Extend the basic operations and factoring with polynomials.
C. Extend the basic operations of rational expressions.
D. Solve first and second degree equations and inequalities in one variable. E. Perform the basic operations of complex numbers.
F. Demonstrate the ability to use the definitions and laws of exponents, roots and radicals.
G. Graph equations and inequalities in two variables.
H. Solve systems of equations and inequalities.
I.   Demonstrate an understanding of functions.
J.  Apply concepts and techniques to problem solving.

Send corrections and comments to pboisver@oakton.edu