| Beginning Algebra Skills
(needed for Intermediate Algebra) |
Intermediate Algebra Skills
(covered during this semester) |
| Real numbers and sets | Solve absolute value equations and inequalities |
| Operations on signed numbers: add, subtract, multiply, divide | Solve compound inequalities |
| Use order of operations to simplify expressions | Graph in the coordinate plane using various methods |
| Translate phrases into algebraic expressions | Write equations of lines |
| Solve linear (first degree) equations in one variable | Solve systems of equations and inequalities |
| Translate sentences into equations | Rational exponents |
| Solve a variety of word problems | Radicals |
| Rules for exponents; operations on polynomials (add, subtract, multiply, divide) | Solve quadratic equations by taking square roots |
| Factor polynomials | Solve quadratic equations by completing the square |
| Solve quadratic equations by factoring | Solve quadratic equations using the quadratic formula |
| Solve equations that can be written in quadratic form |