Math for Allied Health Professions

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This course is intended to build the specific quantitative reasoning skills needed by workers in Allied Health Professions, such as nurses or therapists. Students will become fluent in proportional reasoning in a variety of contexts, including unit conversion, drug dosage calculations, probability, and logarithmic scales. Students gain the tools to communicate and reason about covariation in scenarios such as exponential growth and decay. Student will also apply tools of probability and descriptive statistics to gain literacy in risk and uncertainty in health settings, such as making sense of effect sizes in research literature.