Instructional supplements:     This site contain handouts for MATH 10021--10024.  They can be used by an instructor to  supplement a course or by students to help reinforce details of concepts and procedures for a variety of topics.  The handouts are listed chronologically as the topics appear in MATH 10021--10024 as taught at  Kent State University.  For an alphabetical listing according to the topics, please click HERE.  All handouts are PDF (portable document format) files, so to view them you will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your PC.  If there is some material which you would like to see added to this section, please email me at bosikiew@kent.edu 

MATH 10021   Basic Algebra I:

• Real Number System

•  Review of the Real Number System

• Linear Equations

•  Solving Linear Equations

• Linear Inequalities

• Solving Linear Inequalities

• Lines

• Slope and Finding the Equation of a line
• Finding the Equation of Parallel, Perpendicular, Vertical and Horizontal Lines
• Graphing Lines

• Linear Equations

•  Solving Linear Equations

• Applications of linear equations

•  Translating Linear Equations and Formulas from Geometry
•  Ratios and Proportions
•  Percents

• Systems of Linear Equations

• Solving Systems of Linear Equations by the Method of Substitution
• Solving Systems of Linear Equations by the Method of Elimination
  

• Integer Exponents

• Integer Exponents

• Polynomials

• Addition, Subtraction and Multiplication of Polynomials
• Dividing Polynomials
  

• Factoring

• Factoring out the Greatest Common Factor (GCF)
• Factoring Trinomials
• Factoring by Grouping
• Factoring Difference of Square, Difference of Cubes and Sum of Cubes
• Factoring Quadratic-Type Expressions
• Solving Equations by Factoring

• Radicals

• Evaluating Radicals
• Adding and Subtracting Radicals
• Multiplying Radicals

• Rational Exponents

• Rational Exponents

MATH 10023  Basic Algebra III:

• Factoring

• Factoring Difference of Square, Difference of Cubes and Sum of Cubes
• Factoring Quadratic-Type Expressions

• Rational Expressions

• Multiplying and Dividing Rational Expressions
• Adding and Subtracting Rational Expressions
• Solving Equations Involving Rational Expressions

• Complex Fractions
  

• Complex Fractions

• Quadratic Equations

• Solving Quadratic Equations by the Square Root Property
• Solving Quadratic Equations by Completing the Square
• Solving Quadratic Equations by Quadratic Formula

• Nonlinear Inequalities
  

• Solving nonlinear inequalities

MATH 10024  Basic Algebra IV:

• Absolute Value Equations and Inequalities
• Absolute value inequalities

• Radical Equations

• Equations involving radicals

• Exponential Functions

• Exponential functions and their applications
• Solving exponential equations

• Logarithmic Functions
• Logarithmic functions
• Laws of logarithms
• Solving logarithmic equations