Mathematics is a fundamental „language“ needed for working in sciences, economics and engineering – and of course in mathematics itself. The purpose of this course is to refresh some known background from school and to augment it to a base of skills and tools on the level of a standard college algebra course. To this end, we will closely follow the freely available textbook https://people.math.wisc.edu/~jwrobbin/112online/UWCABook.pdf and work on abstract concepts as well as concrete examples; the taught material will be complemented by assignments to be solved by the students.

Function notation, Transformations, Inverse functions, Quadratic and polynomial equations and inequalities, Intro to exponential functions

This course covers graphing and calculations using Google Sheets & Desmos, basic algebra, Sci. Notation & Dimensional Analysis,Ffunctions, linear & non-linear regression, descriptive and some inferential stats

Rational expressions Exponential functions Logarithms Modeling growth/decay

Limits (formalized) Derivatives Basic applications Intro to integrals (time permitting)