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Mathematics Department

Home of the National Math Champion in 2004, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2014, 2019

LACC’s Math Team has consistently placed in the top 6 out of around 200 colleges in the National American Mathematics Association of Two Year Colleges Competition (AMATYC) in recent years.

About Our Department

The LACC Mathematics Program offers courses ranging from Algebra to Ordinary Differential Equations, including Statistics. We currently offer an Associate of Arts degree in Mathematics and an Associate of Science degree for Transfer with an emphasis in Mathematics.

Math Department has 6 computer labs to support our students, faculty, and staff.

Our courses are offered in different sessions: 15-week semesters (Fall/Spring), 5-week Winter sessions, and 5-week and 8-week Summer sessions. Instructional modalities include in-person, hybrid, hyflex, online (synchronous and asynchronous) classes which meet from one to four days per week. Classes start early in the morning and finish in late evening to accommodate a variety of schedules.

The LACC Math Department encourages students to complete transfer-level course work within a year. We created supplemental support courses and offer tutoring service in the Pi-Shop Tutoring Center in FH 104 and online via Zoom. The tutoring support offered by the Pi-Shop has become crucial to the learning of science and mathematics and helping students to reach their academic goal, and the student success rates speak very highly for it. The vast majority of those who use the Pi-Shop pass their math classes, compared with a lower pass rate for those who take math classes but don’t use the Pi-Shop.

Other opportunities include math scholarships that are awarded each year, a nationally-ranked Math Club that meets on Fridays, and student employment in our tutoring and computer labs. The department also holds an annual Math Contest for junior and senior high school students every spring.

BSTEM Pathway (Business, Science, Technology, Math)	Education Pathway	Liberal Arts/Social Science Pathway	Statistics Pathway	Statistical Data Analytics Certificate
Math 258 Geometry & Trigonometry (5 units, CSU transferable) This is an optional course that can be taken before the Math 260 Precalculus/ Math 260S Precalculus with Support course.	Math 215 Mathematical Concepts for Teachers I (3 units, UC and CSU transferable)	Math 230 Mathematics for Liberal Arts Students (3 units, UC and CSU transferable)	Math 227/ Math 227S Statistics/ Statistics with Support (4 units, UC and CSU transferable)	Math 217 Fundamentals of Mathematical Programming (4 units, CSU transferable)
Math 260/ Math 260S Precalculus/ Precalculus with Support (5 units, UC and CSU transferable)	Math 216 Mathematical Concepts for Teachers II (3 units, UC and CSU transferable)		Math 229 Statistics for Data Science (4 units, CSU transferable)	Math 229 Statistics for Data Science (4 units, CSU transferable)
Math 236 Calculus for Business and Social Science (5 units, UC and CSU transferable)	Math 227/ Math 227S Statistics/ Statistics with Support (4 units, UC and CSU transferable)			Math 239 Applied Data Science (4 units CSU transferable) Prerequisite: Math 229
Math 261 Calculus I (5 units, UC and CSU transferable) Prerequisite: Math 260 or Math 260S				Math 279 Linear Algebra for Data Science (4 units CSU transferable) Prerequisite: Math 229
Math 262 Calculus II (5 units, UC and CSU transferable) Prerequisite: Math 261				CIS 219 Introduction to Oracle: SQL and PL/SQL (3 units UC and CSU transferable)
Math 263 Calculus III (5 units, UC and CSU transferable) Prerequisite: Math 262
Math 270 Linear Algebra (3 units, UC and CSU transferable) Prerequisite: Math 261
Math 272 Methods of Discrete Mathematics (5 units, UC and CSU transferable) Prerequisite: Math 262
Math 275 Ordinary Differential Equations (3 units, UC and CSU transferable) Prerequisite: Math 262

Mission Statement

The mission of the LACC Department of Mathematics is to build an in-depth academic foundation for students to be able to transfer to four-year institutions, enter a vocational program, or seek employment where they would utilize their knowledge and training attained in our department.