ABE 88 - College Math Preparation

10 Credits

Pathway to I-BEST Math& 107. This course prepares students for Math& 107 and covers topics such as adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing fractions, decimals, percent, along with proportions and proportional reasoning. This class uses a conceptual-based curriculum, which means math is taught in ways for students to develop a concrete understanding of math concepts. Many math classes focus on procedures and emphasize memorization of these procedures. The curriculum in this class will challenge learners to explain math concepts instead of only focusing on the procedure to solve the math problem.

Instructor Permission Required Yes
Fees

Quarters Typically Offered
Designed to Serve Any student who does not place into college level math.
Active Date 20230321T15:39:08

Grading Basis Credit/Non-Credit
Variable Credit Yes Range 1-10
OEE Yes
Class Limit 25
Shared Learning Environment Yes
Contact Hours: Lecture 110
Total Contact Hours 110
Degree Distributions:
Course Outline

Fractions, decimals, percents
Benchmark fractions, decimals, percents and analyze information using benchmarks
Area & perimeter of rectangles, squares, triangles, and circles
Unit conversions
Evaluation and simplification of expressions
Construct and summarize data sets using mean, median, mode, the five-number summary, and histograms, box plots, or other graphs
Emphasis on applying concepts and skills learned to relationships and formulas in everyday life and other college coursework
Emphasis on developing quantitative reasoning ability and symbolic reasoning ability

Student Learning Outcomes
Add, subtract, multiply and divide whole numbers, decimals, fractions and percent in realistic problems.

Apply proportional reasoning to real-life scenarios.

Read and compute with ratios, percentages, and proportions

Analyze information from a variety of sources and choose the necessary information to complete a task

Compute dimensions, perimeters, and areas of triangles, circles, and rectangles, and the volume of boxes

Use dimensional analysis to perform unit conversions within and between the English and metric systems.

Construct and interpret bar, pie, and line graphs as well as be able to interpret most “newspaper-type” graphs