ABE 88 - Math Prep for Education IBEST

10 Credits

This 1-2 quarter cohort program prepares students for college-level math. ECED 183 is the foundational course, focusing on decimals, percent, and fractions, then ECED 184 continues from ECED 183, focusing on proportional reasoning, financial math, calculating dimensions, and an introduction to statistics. Students who complete this curriculum go automatically into ECED 185 Math 107& (no placement test). Curriculum used in these classes are contextualized to ECE and Education topics.

Instructor Permission Required Yes
Fees

Quarters Typically Offered
Designed to Serve Any student who does not place into college level math.
Active Date 20250401T11:39:31

Grading Basis BEdA
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