Catalog description: A course designed for elementary education majors and liberal arts majors emphasizing sets, number systems, and their associated operations. Topics include: sets and relations, the systematic analysis of the natural numbers, integers, rational numbers, and real numbers, as well as algorithms for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Prerequisites: Two years of high school algebra or the equivalent or a satisfactory score on the appropriate placement test. Credit can be earned for either MTH 1523 or MTH 1713 but not both.
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Departmental First-Day Handout
Department Curriculum Committee: Vera Preston, co-chair; Mary Hannigan, co-chair; Nancy Miller, Kimberly Kelton, Bob Quigley, Rosemary Kelley (contact info for these faculty members)
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Last updated May 31, 1999. mparker@austin.cc.tx.us