文档介绍：Focus on Mathematics
Entry Level Mathematics (ELM) Examination
2002 Edition
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Entry Level Mathematics Placement Examination
The California State University (CSU) publishes Focus on Mathematics to ensure that high school
teachers and students are aware of entry level requirements for admission to and ess in the CSU.
Students planning to enroll at one of CSU’s twenty-three campuses will be joining more than 388,000
students and 21,200 faculty in an academic enterprise requiring college-level skills in reading, writing,
putation. The CSU mitted to ensuring that those who earn degrees from the university
possess the knowledge and skills necessary to function in an plex and technological
society. This booklet describes the CSU admission requirements in mathematics and the CSU Entry Level
Mathematics (ELM) placement examination developed to ensure that students possess entry-level skills
before undertaking alaureate coursework in quantitative reasoning.
CSU Admission Requirement in Mathematics
All students in the CSU are required to take college-level courses in mathematics or quantitative
reasoning in order to graduate. It is important that all students arrive at the university with the necessary
entry-level mathematics skills. If, on entry, a student is found to need additional work in college
preparatory subjects and is placed in appropriate remedial coursework, such remedial coursework will not
count toward credit for graduation.
In order to ensure that students entering the university are ready to take courses in mathematics or
quantitative reasoning, freshmen plete three years of college preparatory coursework (Algebra I,
Geometry, and Algebra II). Although not required for a