MAT 1445 Quantitative Reasoning
The course will explore various applications of mathematics in the social, finance, health and environmental fields with emphasis on developing informational, technological, logical, and visual reasoning skills. Topics from numeracy, probability and statistics, finance, mathematical modeling with linear, statistical, and exponential functions, and other areas of mathematics will be covered. Note: Students who have not completed the required pre-requisite courses listed, but have successfully completed MAT 0100 with a grade of "C" or better, or MAT 0600 with a grade of "P", can register for MAT 1445 together with the co-requisite course MAT 0445, Quantitative Reasoning Booster. Traditional testing (proctored or in Testing Center) is used in all online sections.
Division: Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
Department: Mathematics
Repeatable Credit: No
Offered Online: Yes
Prereqs: MAT 0200 AND With a grade of C or better or satisfactory score on math placement test
Outcomes
- Integrate, analyze and synthesize ideas from multiple disciplines to find rational solutions to problems including manipulation of symbols from a variety of systems such as visual, verbal, mathematical and logical.
- Apply the concepts of numeracy to investigate and describe quantitative relationships and solve problems in a variety of contexts.
- Reason using the language and structure of algebraic modeling, linear, exponential and multivariate, to investigate, represent, and solve applied problems.
- Reason using the language and structure of statistics to investigate, represent, and solve applied problems requiring data analysis.
Credit Hours: 3
Classroom Hours: 3