SCC Course Catalog
Mathematics (MAT)
| Prefix | Number | Title | Contact / Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAT | 003 | Transition Math | 6/3 |
This course provides an opportunity to customize foundational math content in specific math areas and will include developing a growth mindset. Topics include developing the academic habits, learning strategies, social skills, and growth mindset necessary to be successful in mathematics. Upon completion, students should be able to build a stronger foundation for success in their gateway level math courses by obtaining skills through a variety of instructional strategies with emphasis placed on the most essential prerequisite knowledge.
Prerequisite: none
Corequisite: none
| Prefix | Number | Title | Contact / Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAT | 010 | Math Measurement & Literacy Supplemental | 2/1 |
This course provides an opportunity to customize foundational math content specific to Math Measurement & Literacy. Topics include developing the academic habits, learning strategies, social skills, and growth mindset necessary to be successful in mathematics. Upon completion, students should be able to build a stronger foundation for success in Math Measurement & Literacy by obtaining skills through a variety of instructional strategies with emphasis placed on the most essential prerequisite knowledge.
Prerequisite: none
Corequisite: none
| Prefix | Number | Title | Contact / Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAT | 043 | Quantitative Literacy Support Class | 3/2 |
This course provides an opportunity to customize foundational math content specific to Quantitative Literacy. Topics include developing the academic habits, learning strategies, social skills, and growth mindset necessary to be successful in mathematics. Upon completion, students should be able to build a stronger foundation for success in Quantitative Literacy by obtaining skills through a variety of instructional strategies with emphasis placed on the most essential prerequisite knowledge.
Prerequisite: none
Corequisite: none
| Prefix | Number | Title | Contact / Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAT | 052 | Statistical Methods I Support | 3/2 |
This course provides an opportunity to customize foundational math content specific to Statistical Methods I. Topics include developing the academic habits, learning strategies, social skills, and growth mindset necessary to be successful in mathematics. Upon completion, students should be able to build a stronger foundation for success in Statistical Methods I by obtaining skills through a variety of instructional strategies with emphasis placed on the most essential prerequisite knowledge.
Prerequisite: none
Corequisite: none
| Prefix | Number | Title | Contact / Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAT | 071 | 071 Precalculus Algebra Support | 4/2 |
This course provides an opportunity to customize foundational math content specific to Precalculus Algebra. Topics include developing the academic habits, learning strategies, social skills, and growth mindset necessary to be successful in mathematics. Upon completion, students should be able to build a stronger foundation for success in Precalculus Algebra by obtaining skills through a variety of instructional strategies with emphasis placed on the most essential prerequisite knowledge.
Prerequisite: none
Corequisite: none
| Prefix | Number | Title | Contact / Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAT | 110 | Mathematical Measurement and Literacy | 4/3 |
This course provides an activity-based approach that develops measurement skills and mathematical literacy using technology to solve problems for non-math intensive programs. Topics include unit conversions and estimation within a variety of measurement systems; ratio and proportion; basic geometric concepts; financial literacy; and statistics including measures of central tendency, dispersion, and charting of data. Upon completion, students should be able to demonstrate the use of mathematics and technology to solve practical problems, and to analyze and communicate results.
Prerequisite: none
Corequisite: none
| Prefix | Number | Title | Contact / Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAT | 143 | Quantitative Literacy | 4/3 |
This course is designed to engage students in complex and realistic situations involving the mathematical phenomena of quantity, change and relationship, and uncertainty through project- and activity-based assessment. Emphasis is placed on authentic contexts which will introduce the concepts of numeracy, proportional reasoning, dimensional analysis, rates of growth, personal finance, consumer statistics, practical probabilities, and mathematics for citizenship. Upon completion, students should be able to utilize quantitative information as consumers and to make personal, professional, and civic decisions by decoding, interpreting, using, and communicating quantitative information found in modern media and encountered in everyday life.
Prerequisite: none
Corequisite: none
| Prefix | Number | Title | Contact / Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAT | 152 | Statistical Methods I | 5/4 |
This course provides a project-based approach to introductory statistics with an emphasis on using real-world data and statistical literacy. Topics include descriptive statistics, correlation and regression, basic probability, discrete and continuous probability distributions, confidence intervals and hypothesis testing. Upon completion, students should be able to use appropriate technology to describe important characteristics of a data set, draw inferences about a population from sample data, and interpret and communicate results.
Prerequisite: none
Corequisite: none
| Prefix | Number | Title | Contact / Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAT | 171 | Precalculus Algebra | 5/4 |
This course is designed to develop topics which are fundamental to the study of Calculus. Emphasis is placed on solving equations and inequalities, solving systems of equations and inequalities, and analysis of functions (absolute value, radical, polynomial, rational, exponential, and logarithmic) in multiple representations. Upon completion, students should be able to select and use appropriate models and techniques for finding solutions to algebra-related problems with and without technology.
Prerequisite: none
Corequisite: none
| Prefix | Number | Title | Contact / Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAT | 172 | Precalculus Trigonometry | 5/4 |
This course is designed to develop an understanding of topics which are fundamental to the study of Calculus. Emphasis is placed on the analysis of trigonometric functions in multiple representations, right and oblique triangles, vectors, polar coordinates, conic sections, and parametric equations. Upon completion, students should be able to select and use appropriate models and techniques for finding solutions to trigonometry-related problems with and without technology.
Prerequisite: Take MAT-171
Corequisite: none
| Prefix | Number | Title | Contact / Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAT | 263 | Brief Calculus | 5/4 |
This course is designed to introduce concepts of differentiation and integration and their applications to solving problems. Topics include graphing, differentiation, and integration with emphasis on applications drawn from business, economics, and biological and behavioral sciences. Upon completion, students should be able to demonstrate an understanding of the use of basic calculus and technology to solve problems and to analyze and communicate results.
Prerequisite: Take MAT-171
Corequisite: none
| Prefix | Number | Title | Contact / Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAT | 271 | Calculus I | 5/4 |
This course is designed to develop the topics of differential and integral calculus. Emphasis is placed on limits, continuity, derivatives and integrals of algebraic and transcendental functions of one variable. Upon completion, students should be able to select and use appropriate models and techniques for finding solutions to derivative-related problems with and without technology.
Prerequisite: Take: MAT-172
Corequisite: none