Real World Math with Support

Catalog description

This course prepares students with the necessary algebra skills relating to simplifying expressions, solving equations, graphing lines and working with spreadsheets to be able to take the General Education Quantitative Reasoning course. It also includes the content of the Quantiative Reasoning Course: It course prepares students to understand, analyze, and solve real-life problems that require quantitative reasoning. Topics include the meaning of probabilities, how to read, critique, and apply statistical information found in news reports, public policy debates, consumer reports, and other daily life and professional situations; the use of mathematical models in describing, understanding, and making predictions about real world phenomena; and the mathematics of budgeting, loans, and investments. Topics will be illustrated by examples and applications from daily life and natural phenomena. Math for the Real World with Support is designed to inspire students to act wisely when faced with quantitative challenges in collegiate coursework, employment, and daily living. It can be taken by students who are placed into Math 100B.