{"id":26,"date":"2016-05-14T18:23:53","date_gmt":"2016-05-14T18:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-hccc-ma-124-1\/?post_type=front-matter&#038;p=26"},"modified":"2016-05-14T19:13:41","modified_gmt":"2016-05-14T19:13:41","slug":"about-this-course","status":"publish","type":"front-matter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-hccc-ma-124-1\/front-matter\/about-this-course\/","title":{"raw":"About This Course","rendered":"About This Course"},"content":{"raw":"<h2>MA 124 Contemporary Mathematics<\/h2>\r\nThis course is taught at Herkimer County Community College using Open Educational Resources (OER) curated by Herkimer faculty Annette Yauney,\u00a0and supported by Open SUNY Textbooks.\r\n\r\nThis course is intended to explore some basic mathematical concepts of general interest and use to students in the liberal arts. Topics include inductive and deductive reasoning; techniques for solving problems; set theory; number theory and the real number system; and logic. 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