Upon successfully completing this course, the student will be able to:
- Communication
- Interpret and communicate quantitative information and mathematical and statistical concepts using language appropriate to the context and intended audience.
- Problem Solving
- Make sense of problems, develop strategies to find solutions, and persevere in solving them.
- Reasoning
- Reason and draw conclusions or make decisions with quantitative information.
- Evaluation
- Critique and evaluate quantitative arguments that utilize mathematical, statistical, and quantitative information.
- Technology
- Use appropriate technology in a given context.
- Students will engage in all course content described below in context to the health professions fields being supported.
- Topics in Arithmetic
- Interpret relative value of decimals and perform basic arithmetic of decimals.
- Interpret relative value of fractions and perform basic arithmetic of fractions.
- Simplify arithmetic expressions using the order of operations
- Calculate powers and roots of numbers
- Topics in Measurement and Conversions
- Solve linear equations.
- Solve problems involving percents and ratio proportions.
- Simplify and solve basic exponential and logarithmic expressions and equations. Include applications pertaining to health professions.
- Graph linear equations.
- Recognize the characteristics of linear, quadratic, and exponential functions as presented in their graphs.
- Topics in Statistics
- Interpret data presented in frequency distribution tables, bar graphs or histograms, pie charts, or line graphs.
- Compute mean, median, mode, and standard deviation for a data set.
- Topics in Geometry
- Use geometric formulas to calculate perimeter, area, surface area, volume.
- Be able to measure angles with a protractor.
- Solve problems involving angle measure.
- Topics in Health Professions
- Solve problems involving dilutions and dosages.
- Solve problems involving reconstituting solutions.
- Solve problems involving IV flow rates