2 MATH-0990: Math Literacy for College Students
Quantitative Reasoning: Analyze problems, including real-world scenarios, through the application of mathematical and numerical
concepts and skills, including the interpretation of data, tables, charts, or graphs.
Objective(s):
1. Apply quantitative reasoning strategies to solve real-world problems with proportional relationships based on an understanding
that derived quantities may be described with whole numbers, fractions, decimals, or in a combinations of these, and that to fully
explain these relationships, units must be used.
2. Recognize proportional relationships from verbal and numeric representations.
3. Compare proportional relationships represented in different ways.
Course Outcome(s):
Reason using the language and structure of algebra to investigate, represent, and solve problems.
Essential Learning Outcome Mapping:
Critical/Creative Thinking: Analyze, evaluate, and synthesize information in order to consider problems/ideas and transform them in
innovative or imaginative ways.
Quantitative Reasoning: Analyze problems, including real-world scenarios, through the application of mathematical and numerical
concepts and skills, including the interpretation of data, tables, charts, or graphs.
Objective(s):
1. Recognize various uses of variables to represent quantities or attributes.
2. Describe the effect that a change in the value of one variable has on the value(s) of other variables in the algebraic relationship.
3. Construct and use equations or inequalities to represent relationships involving one or more unknown or variable quantities to
solve problems. Identify when there is insufficient information given to solve a problem.
Course Outcome(s):
Represent relationships between quantities in multiple ways and solve problems that require an understanding of functions.
Objective(s):
1. Translate problems from a variety of contexts into a mathematical representation and vice versa.
2. Describe the behavior of common types of functions using expressions, graphs, and tables.
3. Identify when a linear model or trend is appropriate for data, when a linear model does not appear to be appropriate, and know how
to explore the applicability of other models.
4. Identify important characteristics of functions in various representations.
5. Use appropriate terms and units to describe rate of change.
6. Explain that abstract mathematical models used to characterize real-world scenarios or physical relationships are not always exact
and may be subject to error from many sources, including variability.
Methods of Evaluation:
1. Exams
2. Quizzes
3. Homework
4. In class collaborative work
5. Comprehensive final exam
6. Online coursework
7. Class participation
Course Content Outline:
1. Real numbers
a. Operations on real numbers
b. Order of operations
c. Data presentation
d. Inequalities
e. Properties of real numbers
f. Like terms
g. Algebraic expressions
h. Translation into algebraic expressions
2. Linear equations and inequalities in one variable