Prerequisite: MAT095R or placement. (Offered every semester). Students will learn the following foundational math topics, in order to be successful in subsequent college courses: factoring, complex numbers, radicals, solution of quadratic equations by factoring and quadratic equations; addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of rational expressions, solution of rational equations, long division of polynomials; variations, ratios and proportions; area and volume of plane and solid geometric objects; right triangle trigonometry.