Course Description

Effective: 2017-08-01

General Course Purpose

This course is intended for students entering degree and certificate programs in a health professions field such as radiography, diagnostic medical sonography, and nursing.

Course Prerequisites/Corequisites

Prerequisites: Competency in MTE 1-3 as demonstrated through placement or unit completion or equivalent or Corequisite: MCR 9

Course Objectives

• Communication
• Interpret and communicate quantitative information and mathematical and statistical concepts using language appropriate to the context and intended audience.
• Problem Solving
• Make sense of problems, develop strategies to find solutions, and persevere in solving them.
• Reasoning
• Reason and draw conclusions or make decisions with quantitative information.
• Evaluation
• Critique and evaluate quantitative arguments that utilize mathematical, statistical, and quantitative information.
• Technology
• Use appropriate technology in a given context.
• Students will engage in all course content described below in context to the health professions fields being supported.
• Topics in Arithmetic
• Interpret relative value of decimals and perform basic arithmetic of decimals.
• Interpret relative value of fractions and perform basic arithmetic of fractions.
• Simplify arithmetic expressions using the order of operations
• Calculate powers and roots of numbers
• Topics in Measurement and Conversions
• Solve linear equations.
• Solve problems involving percents and ratio proportions.
• Simplify and solve basic exponential and logarithmic expressions and equations. Include applications pertaining to health professions.
• Graph linear equations.
• Recognize the characteristics of linear, quadratic, and exponential functions as presented in their graphs.
• Topics in Statistics
• Interpret data presented in frequency distribution tables, bar graphs or histograms, pie charts, or line graphs.
• Compute mean, median, mode, and standard deviation for a data set.
• Topics in Geometry
• Use geometric formulas to calculate perimeter, area, surface area, volume.
• Be able to measure angles with a protractor.
• Solve problems involving angle measure.
• Topics in Health Professions
• Solve problems involving dilutions and dosages.
• Solve problems involving reconstituting solutions.
• Solve problems involving IV flow rates.

Major Topics to be Included

• Basic Arithmetic
• Measurement and Conversions
• Algebra and Graphing
• Statistics
• Geometry
• Health Professions Applications