Mathematics
21 courses · Antelope Valley College · 2026-2027 Catalog
Classes: Fall 2026 · Winter 2027 · Spring 2027
MATH 035 Support Course for Math 135
- Units
- 1.5
- Hours
- 27 lecture hours, 27 contact hours total
- Corequisite
- Concurrent enrollment in Math 135.
A review of core prerequisite skills, competencies, and concepts needed in Trigonometry. Intended for students who are concurrently enrolled in MATH 135, Trigonometry. Topics include concepts from arithmetic, pre-algebra, elementary algebra, and intermediate algebra that are needed to understand the basics of college-level Trigonometry. NOTE: No grade will be given for this class; students will receive "pass" or "no pass" only. (Credit course not applicable to the associate degree and certificate programs.)
MATH 040S Support Course for Math 140
- Units
- 2
- Hours
- 36 lecture hours, 36 contact hours total
- Corequisite
- Concurrent enrollment in Math 140.
A review of core prerequisite skills, competencies, and concepts needed in Precalculus. Intended for students who are concurrently enrolled in MATH 140, Precalculus. Topics include concepts from Elementary Algebra, Intermediate Algebra, and Trigonometry that are needed to understand the basics of college-level Precalculus. NOTE: No grade will be given for this class; students will receive "pass" or "no pass" only. (Credit course not applicable to the associate degree and certificate programs.)
MATH 049S Support Course for Math 149
- Units
- 2
- Hours
- 36 lecture hours, 36 contact hours total
- Corequisite
- Concurrent enrollment in Math 149.
A review of core prerequisite skills, competencies, and concepts needed in Precalculus and Calculus. Intended for students who are concurrently enrolled in Math 149, Foundations of Calculus. Topics include concepts from arithmetic, pre-algebra, elementary algebra, and intermediate algebra that are needed to understand the basics of college-level Precalculus and Calculus. NOTE: No Grade will be given for this class; students will receive "pass" or "no pass" only. (Credit course not applicable to the associate degree and certificate programs.)
MATH 050S Support Course for Math 150
- Units
- 2
- Hours
- 36 lecture hours, 36 contact hours total
- Corequisite
- Concurrent enrollment in Math 150.
A review of core prerequisite skills, competencies, and concepts needed in Calculus. Intended for students who are concurrently enrolled in MATH 150, Calculus. Topics include concepts from Intermediate Algebra and Precalculus that are needed to understand the basics of college-level Calculus. NOTE: No grade will be given for this class; students will receive "pass" or "no pass" only. (Credit course not applicable to the associate degree and certificate programs.)
MATH 060S Support Course for Math 160
- Units
- 2
- Hours
- 36 lecture hours, 36 contact hours total
- Corequisite
- Concurrent enrollment in MATH 160.
This course delivers intensive, skill-focused instruction designed to support students’ success in Calculus II. It reviews and reinforces foundational topics—such as algebra, trigonometry, and arithmetic—while aligning instruction with the current Calculus II content. The course is graded Pass/No Pass and connects weekly with the core course's material. (Credit course not applicable to the associate degree and certificate programs.)
MATH 103 Math for Technical Fields
- Units
- 4
- Hours
- 72 lecture hours, 72 contact hours total
- Prerequisite
- Completion of Intermediate Algebra or placement by Multiple Measures.
- Transfers to
- CSU
This course is designed to equip Career Technical Education students with the mathematical competencies needed in today's workplace. Topics include college level algebra, measurement units and conversion, estimation, geometry, trigonometry, and basic statistics and probability. It will use technology for visualization and problem solving. Applications and modeling using quantitative reasoning will be emphasized.
MATH 110 Mathematics for Liberal Arts Students
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 54 lecture hours, 54 contact hours total
- Prerequisite
- Completion of Intermediate Algebra or higher or placement by multiple measures.
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
This is a survey of mathematics course and is designed for students who are taking mathematics for liberal arts majors or as a fulfillment of their general education requirements. The course is a survey of mathematical topics that introduces the art, history, and applications to a general audience. Students will appreciate mathematics through exploration of a wide range of applications in physical and social sciences, and also via its unparalleled and often surprising appearance in humanities.
MATH 116 Introduction to Statistics Using R
- Units
- 4
- Hours
- 72 lecture hours, 72 contact hours total
- Prerequisite
- Completion of Intermediate Algebra or higher or placement by multiple measures.
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
This course will cover the common traditional statistical methods taught in a beginning course using the statistical software R. Course will include statistical reporting of results using R-markdown authoring in the R-Studio program. The use of probability techniques, hypothesis testing, and predictive techniques to facilitate decision-making. Topics include descriptive statistics; probability and sampling distributions; statistical inference; correlation and linear regression; analysis of variance, chi square and t tests.
MATH 120 Math for Teachers
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 54 lecture hours, 54 contact hours total
- Prerequisite
- Completion of Intermediate Algebra or higher or placement by multiple measures.
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
This course is designed to provide students with a deep conceptual understanding of the mathematics taught at the elementary and middle school level. Topics covered included problem-solving skills, the structure of the real number systems, other numeration systems, basic number theory, set theory, and use of manipulatives. Additionally, students will look at the Common Core State Standards and how these standards are applied in the content covered in class.
MATH 124 Finite Math
- Units
- 4
- Hours
- 72 lecture hours, 72 contact hours total
- Prerequisite
- Completion of Intermediate Algebra or higher or placement by multiple measures.
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
- C-ID
- MATH 130
Finite Math is designed for students interested in business, social and behavioral sciences. Topics include Linear Functions, Matrices, Linear Programming, Mathematics of Finance, Sets and Logic, Probability, Statistics, and Markov Chains.
MATH 128 College Algebra for Liberal Arts
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 54 lecture hours, 54 contact hours total
- Prerequisite
- Completion of Intermediate Algebra or higher or placement by multiple measures A college-level course in algebra for non-STEM or liberal arts majors covering the properties and graphs of polynomial, rational, radical, absolute value, and exponential and logarithmic functions; solutions and applications of equations and systems of equations and inequalities from these functions; linear programming; and introduction to matrices and determinants in solving linear systems.
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
- C-ID
- MATH 150
MATH 135 Plane Trigonometry
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 54 lecture hours, 54 contact hours total
- Prerequisite
- Completion of Intermediate Algebra or higher or placement by multiple measures.
- Transfers to
- CSU
This course is for the student who is preparing for calculus, physics, engineering, and other applications requiring trigonometry. Topics include the trigonometric functions, basic identities, inverse trigonometric functions, solutions of triangles, trigonometric equations, introduction to vectors, and complex numbers.
MATH 140 Precalculus
- Units
- 4
- Hours
- 72 lecture hours, 72 contact hours total
- Prerequisite
- Completion MATH 135 or placement by multiple measures.
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
- C-ID
- MATH 155
This course is primarily for students who have completed intermediate algebra and trigonometry and are planning to study calculus or other mathematically oriented courses in satisfaction of STEM major areas of study such as chemistry, physics, engineering, biological sciences, economics, and technology. Topics include equation-solving, graphing, and analysis of polynomial, absolute value, radical, rational, exponential, logarithmic, trigonometric, conic and polar functions.
MATH 148 Calculus for Business and Economics
- Units
- 4
- Hours
- 72 lecture hours, 72 contact hours total
- Prerequisite
- Completion of Intermediate Algebra or higher or placement by Multiple Measures.
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
- C-ID
- MATH 140
Calculus for Business & Economics is a course designed for students in business, management, economics, and social sciences who require more advanced mathematics. The course emphasizes on applications of derivatives and integrals. Topics include functions, limits, continuity, graphing, differentiation, and integration.
MATH 149 Foundations of Calculus
- Units
- 4
- Hours
- 72 lecture hours, 72 contact hours total
- Prerequisite
- Completion of Intermediate Algebra or placement by multiple measures This course is primarily for students who are planning to study calculus or other mathematically oriented courses in satisfaction of STEM major areas of study such as chemistry, physics, engineering, biological sciences, economics, technology, and mathematics.
- Transfers to
- CSU
Topics include linear, polynomial, rational, radical, exponential, absolute value, logarithmic, and trigonometric functions, the limit of a function, the limit laws, continuity of a function, derivatives.
MATH 150 Calculus and Analytic Geometry
- Units
- 5
- Hours
- 90 lecture hours, 90 contact hours total
- Prerequisite
- Completion of MATH 140 or MATH 149 or placement by multiple measures.
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
- C-ID
- MATH 210
This course is for the student planning upper-division work in math, physics, engineering or business. It involves differentiation and integration of algebraic, trigonometric, exponential, and logarithmic functions. Applications include extrema, graphing, related rates, area.
MATH 150H Calculus & Analytic Geometry Honors
- Units
- 5
- Hours
- 90 lecture hours, 90 contact hours total
- Prerequisite
- Math 140 or Math 149 or placement by multiple measures.
This honors course, intended for students in the Honors Transfer Program, is for the student planning upper-division work in math, physics, engineering or business. It involves differentiation and integration of algebraic, trigonometric, exponential, and logarithmic functions. Applications include extrema, graphing, related rates, area. The honors course provides more content and requires greater intensity and depth of study than the non-honors class. (UC, CSU, AVC) Note: Students may take either MATH 150 Calculus & Analytic Geometry or MATH 150H Calculus & Analytic Geometry Honors. Duplicate credit will not be awarded.
MATH 160 Calculus and Analytic Geometry
- Units
- 4
- Hours
- 72 lecture hours, 72 contact hours total
- Prerequisite
- Completion of MATH 150 or MATH 150H or placement by multiple measures.
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
- C-ID
- MATH 220
This course is a continuation of Math 150. It includes applications of integration, integration techniques, indeterminate forms, improper integrals, infinite series, and topics in analytic geometry.
MATH 220 Linear Algebra
- Units
- 4
- Hours
- 72 lecture hours, 72 contact hours total
- Prerequisite
- Completion of MATH 160.
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
- C-ID
- MATH 250
This is an introductory course in linear algebra, designed for transfer students majoring in the mathematical, biological, physical, engineering, sociological or managerial sciences. Topics to be covered include systems of linear equations, matrices, determinants, vector spaces, inner product spaces, linear transformations, eigenvalues and eigenvectors. This course will include references to applications of the above topics in the areas of differential equations, least squares fitting to data, geometry of linear operators on R2, diagonalizing quadratic forms and conic sections.
MATH 230 Introduction to Ordinary Differential Equations
- Units
- 4
- Hours
- 72 lecture hours, 72 contact hours total
- Prerequisite
- Completion of MATH 160.
- Advisory
- Completion of MATH 220 and MATH 250.
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
- C-ID
- MATH 240
This is an introduction course in solving numerous types of ordinary differential equations including first order linear and nonlinear equations, higher order linear equations, systems of linear equations, and the associated initial value problems. In addition to the standard methods, the Laplace transform, power series method, and matrix method are covered. Applications of differential equations in physics, chemistry, economics and social sciences will be studied throughout the course.
MATH 250 Calculus and Analytic Geometry
- Units
- 4
- Hours
- 72 lecture hours, 72 contact hours total
- Prerequisite
- Completion of MATH 160.
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
- C-ID
- MATH 230
This course is a continuation of MATH 160. Includes vector theory and the geometry of 3-dimensional space, vector-valued functions, functions of several variables, partial differentiation, multiple integration and vector analysis.