Math 1

Math 1 - Foundations of Lower Division Mathematics is a UC Berkeley course in the Department of Mathematics. This course aims to bring students with varying math backgrounds up-to-speed with the expectations of UC Berkeley’s lower division mathematics courses. This course will support comprehension of the fundamental concepts necessary to excel in calculus and beyond. This prep course can be taken concurrently with or prior to calculus classes. The course curriculum covers algebraic operations, laws of exponents and logarithms, inequalities and absolute values, single-variable function properties, polynomials, power and exponential functions, logarithmic functions, trigonometric functions, coordinate geometry in two and three dimensions, complex numbers, and functions of several variables.

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