This course is designed for students whose placement scores or life experience indicate that they may need additional preparation in order to take a college credit bearing mathematics course. Topics may include basic algebraic operations and expressions, linear equations and inequalities, polynomials, rational expressions, factoring, exponents and radicals, graphing, quadratic equations, and mathematical reasoning. Students will use mathematical software to master targeted areas and progress through a self-paced environment in order to achieve college readiness. Immediately following the successful completion of this foundational course, students should register for a credit bearing mathematics course accordingly to their degree plan. Credit in this course does not fulfill any degree requirement.