MATH 1000 — Quantitative Reasoning
All college students, regardless of their college major, need to be able to make reasonable decisions about financial, environmental, and health issues that require quantitative reasoning skills. This course integrates quantitative literacy with numeracy, probability, mathematical modeling, and statistical thinking. Topics covered include: construction and interpretation of graphs; descriptive statistics; inferential statistics using normal distributions; and mathematical modeling with linear, exponential, and other nonlinear functions. An activity-based approach is used to develop conceptual and procedural tools that support the use of key mathematical concepts in a variety of contexts. The essential skills of communicating mathematics effectively and using appropriate technologies will also be developed in this course. This course is not suited for Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math(STEM) majors.