MATH1269: Precalculus Skills

This course serves as a co-requisite course to MATH 1241, MATH 1271, and MATH 1371. It is designed to reinforce the skills in College Algebra and Trigonometry that are necessary for success in Calculus. Students should enroll in this course if their placement exam score indicates that their preparedness for Calculus is borderline. Other students with sufficiently high placement exam scores can enroll in MATH 1241/1271/1371 without registering for MATH 1269. Students enrolled in this course should be concurrently enrolled in MATH 1241, MATH 1271, or MATH 1371. This course is designed to review computational skills in material that is important for success in an introductory Differential Calculus. Skills include simplifying rational expressions, factoring, binomial theorem, finding roots, quadratic formula, rationalizing denominators, equations of lines, laws of exponents and logarithms, graphs of common functions, the unit circle, trig identities, inverse trig functions, isolating variables, similar triangles, geometric formulas, inequalities, functions and function notation, domain and range of functions, inverse functions, composition of functions, symmetry, recursion and sequences, and solving systems of equations.

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