MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT
Four semesters of Mathematics course work are required.

Applied Mathematics
Applied Math is designed to provide instruction in basic mathematics needed for personal and business life. It is suitable for students who will not be pursuing further high school mathematics beyond beginning algebra and for all students wishing to develop a better understanding of practical mathematical applications. The proper use of a calculator is stressed. There are no prerequisites.

Algebra I
This is intended to be a first-year algebra course, for students who have previously completed an appropriate pre-algebra course. The course goal is to provide a rigorous development of the student’s mathematical skills and provide him the tools to enable him to proceed into the higher math subjects. The student by successfully completing this course will have not only achieved the basic algebra skills, but will have exposure into basic geometry and statistics.

Geometry
This course gives the student experience drawing, constructing, measuring, visualizing, comparing, transforming, and classifying geometric figures. With these activities students learn to reason about those figures and separate fact from opinion.

Advanced Algebra
This course contains the mathematics that educated people around the world use in conversation, and that most colleges want or expect you to have studied. Familiar ideas such as properties of numbers, graphs, expressions, equations, and inequalities appear, as well as new topics, including matrices, logarithms, trigonometry, and conic sections. Throughout the course we use the concept of function to help organize ideas, and the graphing calculator is used for this purpose.

Functions, Statistics, and Trigonometry
Functions, Statistics, and Trigonometry covers a wide range of topics and brings them together in a unified discipline. This course extends learning about functions into technology, statistics, and trigonometry, preparing the student for calculus. Even if the student takes no further math in college, this work will apply to many fields, including engineering, physical sciences, social sciences, and business.

Precalculus and Discrete Mathematics
Most of the math a student has taken involves Precalculus topics, such as properties of functions, sequences and limits, algebraic expressions of equalities and inequalities, and formulas for slope, distance, areas, and volumes. These topics and others are used to prepare the student for calculus, which is about sets of continuous elements. In contrast, discrete means separate, as in the space between consecutive elements, so Discrete Math refers to a collection of topics important for computer science.