MATH 1120 — Precalculus
4 semester hoursUndergraduateLectureusually offered: fall, springtypical days: WBostonTraditional
Focuses on linear, polynomial, exponential, logarithmic, and trigonometric functions. Emphasis is placed on understanding, manipulating, and graphing these basic functions, their inverses and compositions, and using them to model real-world situations (that is, exponential growth and decay, periodic phenomena). Equations involving these functions are solved using appropriate techniques. Special consideration is given to choosing reasonable functions to fit numerical data.
Offering history
| Term | Sections | Enrolled | Capacity | Full | Open seats/section |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 2023 | 2 | 16 | 38 | 42% | 11.0 |
| Spring 2024 | 1 | 4 | 19 | 21% | 15.0 |
| Fall 2024 | 1 | 14 | 19 | 74% | 5.0 |
| Spring 2025 | 1 | 10 | 19 | 53% | 9.0 |
| Fall 2025 | 1 | 10 | 19 | 53% | 9.0 |
Snapshots from scheduled scrapes — not live seat availability. "Full" can exceed 100% when sections over-enroll.
Meeting times
Share of recent sections by weekday: M 37% · T 0% · W 89% · Th 37% · F 11%
Common patterns: W (52% of sections), MWR (37% of sections), F (11% of sections) — in patterns, R means Thursday
Professors
Fall
- Stanley Eigen (100% of students) · reviews
Spring
- Stanley Eigen (100% of students) · reviews
Percentages are each professor's average share of the season's enrolled students in recent terms.
Links
Official catalog (MATH course descriptions) · Student reviews on RateMyHusky · All MATH courses · Plan it at numap.app