MATH 110 Quantitative Reasoning
Course Information
| Course Number | MATH 110 |
|---|---|
| Course Title | Quantitative Reasoning |
| Description | Quantitative reasoning helps students develop problem-solving skills to think critically in our increasingly quantitative world. Topics in this course include problem-solving, numeracy, proportional reasoning, logic, mathematical modeling, finance, statistics, and probability. MATH 110 is a terminal course and does not serve as a prerequisite for any higher-level mathematics courses. MATH 110 satisfies the MNTC Category 4 Mathematical/Logical Reasoning requirement. (Prerequisite: Corequisite enrollment in MATH 0097 OR Completion of MATH 0097 OR MATH 0085 OR MATH 0095 with a grade of C or higher OR Classic Accuplacer score 56+ in Arithmetic AND 76+ Elem Alg OR Next Gen Accuplacer score 250-300 QAS OR ACT math score 19-36 OR MCA score 1148-1164). |
| Total Credits | 4 |
| Total Hours | 64 |
| Instruction Type | Credits and Hours |
|---|---|
| Lecture | 4 Credits, 64 Hours |
Pre/Corequisites
Prerequisite: Corequisite enrollment in MATH 0097 OR Completion of MATH 0097 with a grade of C or higher OR Completion of MATH 0085 with a grade of C or higher OR Completion of MATH 0095 with a grade of C or higher OR Classic Accuplacer score 56+ in Arithmetic AND 76+ Elem Alg OR Next Gen Accuplacer score 237-300 QAS OR ACT math score 19-36 OR MCA score 1148-1164
Institutional Core Competencies
- Critical and Creative Thinking - Students will be able to demonstrate purposeful thinking with the goal of using a creative process for developing and building upon ideas and/or the goal of using a critical process for the analyzing and evaluating of ideas.
Course Competencies
- Communicate quantitative, mathematical, and statistical ideas in oral and written form.
- Develop problem-solving and critical thinking skills.
- Formulate logical arguments.
- Apply quantitative methods to solve real-world problems.
- Analyze quantitative information using proportional reasoning.
- Construct mathematical models representing real-world problems.
- Analyze mathematical models representing real-world problems.
- Develop financial literacy.
- Apply statistics to investigate and draw conclusions from real-world scenarios.
- Apply probability to investigate and draw conclusions from real-world scenarios.
- Establish meaningful links between mathematics and other disciplines.
- Use technology to solve real-world problems.
SCC Accessibility Statement
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