Nov 21, 2024  
2024-2025 Course Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Course Catalog
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MAT 810 - Math for Liberal Arts Sup. Lab

Credits: 1
Lecture Hours: 0
Lab Hours: 2
Practicum Hours: 0
Work Experience: 0
Course Type: General
Supports success in Math for Liberal Arts through student-centered instruction and group work. Develops skills required for success in college-level mathematics, including problem solving, critical thinking, and quantitative reasoning. Students must be concurrently enrolled in MAT 110 .
Prerequisite: Minimum ALEKS score of 20% or MAT 064  with a C- or better.
Corequisite: MAT 110  
Competencies
  1. Examine liberal arts math related attitudes
    1. Explain the causes of math anxiety
    2. Plan strategies for overcoming math anxiety
  2. Develop time management in liberal arts math
    1. Discuss math time management
    2. Plan a study schedule
    3. Discuss how grades are calculated
  3. Examine technology skills required for the study of math for liberal arts
    1. Navigate the institution LMS
    2. Investigate the various software required for the course
    3. Explore Desmos, TI calculator, or other optional technologies
  4. Apply problem solving and critical thinking skills to various liberal arts scenarios
    1. Use problem solving strategies
    2. Develop appropriate mathematical models
    3. Make sense of graphical information
  5. Interpret concepts used in the study of liberal arts math
    1. Communicate through examples what it means to understand mathematical and statistical concepts
    2. Demonstrate fundamental concepts within one’s own experiences
  6. Demonstrate a basic understanding of arithmetic
    1. Perform calculations with fractions, decimals, and percentages
    2. Compute answers with the appropriate formulas
  7. Write models for verbal problems
    1. Translate phrases and sentences into mathematical expressions
    2. Select the appropriate models in liberal arts math to solve a given word problem
  8. Support the main competencies within liberal arts math
    1. Analyze information using logic and set theory
    2. Analyze different historical numerical systems
    3. Evaluate mathematics in the arts
    4. Evaluate mathematical concepts in finance
    5. Use probability to make decisions
    6. Analyze statistics to make decisions
    7. Examine various voting and apportionment rules
    8. Apply graph theory to everyday applications

Competencies Revised Date: AY2023



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