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230 Adult Basic and Secondary Education Noncredit Continuing Education

ADULT BASIC AND 22 25
SECONDARY EDUCATION ARITHMETIC 1B GEOMETRY 1A
0 Units 0 Units
10 ABSE 22 introduces students to higher ABSE 25 is the fi rst half of a one -year high
BASIC ENGLISH level arithmetic: statistics, measurement, school level geometry course. In this course
0 Units and geometric and algebraic principles. the notion of two-dimensional shapes as
ABSE 10 is a beginning composition course. This course is designed to meet the needs part of the Euclidian Plane and exploration
This course covers the basics of sentence and of students who wish to improve their of transformations of this plane as a way to
paragraph composition including mechan- math skills and to earn high school credit. determine whether two shapes are congruent
ics, grammar, and spelling. Laboratory 160 Laboratory 100 hours. Note: This is a self- are formalized. Students use transformations
hours. Note: This is a self-paced course in paced course in an open-entry, open-exit lab to prove geometric theorems. This course is
an open-entry, open-exit lab environment. environment. Successful completion of this designed to meet the needs of students who
Recommended Preparation: ESL 40 or course is worth 5 credits (.5 unit) towards a wish to begin their study of geometry and to
equivalent. high school diploma. Recommended Prepa- earn high school credit in math. Laboratory
ration: ESL 40 or equivalent and ABSE 21 or 100 hours. Note: This is a self-paced course
15 equivalent. in an open-entry, open-exit lab environment.
VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT Successful completion of this course is worth
0 Units 23 5 credits (.5 unit) towards a high school
ABSE 15 introduces common roots, prefi xes, ALGEBRA 1A diploma. Recommended Preparation: ESL
suffi xes, and word usage as well as the use of 0 Units 40 or equivalent and ABSE 24 or equivalent.
context clues to determine word meanings. ABSE 23 is an introduction to algebraic
This course is designed to meet the needs of reasoning and modeling. Algebraic model- 26
students who wish to improve their vocabu- ing is introduced with linear functions. GEOMETRY 1B
lary and to earn elective high school credit in This course is designed to meet the needs 0 Units
English. Laboratory 100 hours. Note: This is of students who wish to begin their study ABSE 26 is the second half of a one-year
a self-paced course in an open-entry, open- of algebra and to earn high school credit in high school level geometry course. In this
exit lab environment. Successful completion mathematics. Laboratory 100 hours. Note: course students investigate similarity and
of this course is worth 5 credits (1/2 unit) This is a self-paced course in an open-entry, use similarity in the right triangle to defi ne
towards a high school diploma. Recom- open-exit lab environment. Successful trigonometric ratios. They investigate circles
mended Preparation: ESL 40 or equivalent. completion of this course is worth 5 credits (.5 and prove theorems about them. Connecting
unit) towards a high school diploma. Recom- to their prior experience with the coordinate
20 mended Preparation: ESL 40 or equivalent, plane, they prove geometric theorems using
BASIC MATH ABSE 22 or equivalent. coordinates and describe shapes with equa-
0 Units tions. Students extend their knowledge of
ABSE 20 is a math course designed for adults 24 area and volume formulas for three dimen-
who wish to review or master basic arithme- ALGEBRA 1B sional shapes. This course is designed to meet
tic from whole number operations through 0 Units the needs of students who wish to begin their
fractions, decimals, and percent. Laboratory ABSE 24 provides students with continued study of geometry and to earn high school
120 hours. Note: This is a self-paced course instruction on reasoning and modeling credit in mathematics. Laboratory 100 hours.
in an open-entry, open-exit lab environ- algebraically. Areas presented in this class Note: This is a self-paced course in an open-
ment. Recommended Preparation: ESL 40 include descriptive statistics, and quadratic entry, open-exit lab environment. Successful
or equivalent. functions/modeling. This course is designed completion of this course is worth 5 credits (.5
to meet the needs of students who wish to
21 continue their study of algebra and to earn unit) towards a high school diploma. Recom-
ARITHMETIC 1A high school credit in mathematics. Labora- mended Preparation: ESL 40 or equivalent,
0 Units ABSE 25 or equivalent.
tory 100 hours. Note: This is a self-paced
ABSE 21 introduces students to whole course in an open-entry, open-exit lab 27
number, fraction, decimal, and percent environment. Successful completion of this APPLIED MATHEMATICS
computation. This course is designed to meet course is worth 5 credits (.5 unit) towards 0 Units
the needs of students who wish to improve a high school diploma. Recommended ABSE 27 is designed to help students use
their basic math skills and to earn high school Preparation: ESL 40 or equivalent, ABSE 23 mathematical principles and computations
credit. Laboratory 100 hours. Note: This is a or equivalent. in everyday living and business transac-
self-paced course in an open-entry, open-exit tions. This course may be taken as a high
lab environment. Successful completion of school elective in mathematics. Laboratory
this course is worth 5 credits (.5 unit) towards 100 hours. Note: This is a self-paced course
a high school diploma. Recommended in an open-entry, open-exit lab environment.
Preparation: ESL 40 or equivalent. Successful completion of this course is worth
5 credits (.5 unit) towards a high school
diploma. Recommended Preparation: ESL
40 or equivalent.

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