Quantitative Reasoning

This course teaches practical application of calculations in everyday life, like decision-making, saving money, estimating, understanding media reports, among others. You will gain confidence in your mathematical abilities to feel comfortable navigating math in your daily life.

What you’ll learn

  • Confidence to use math in daily life
  • Ability to build bar and pie charts in spreadsheets
  • Apply math to finances, utilities, and investments
  • Make math approachable for various careers
Quantitative Reasoning

$99

Plus membership

3 Credits

All courses include:

eTextbooks

2 to 3-day turnaround for grading

Multiple chances to improve your grade

On-demand tutoring & writing center

Student support 7 days a week

$99

Plus membership

3 Credits

All courses include:

eTextbooks

2 to 3-day turnaround for grading

Multiple chances to improve your grade

On-demand tutoring & writing center

Student support 7 days a week

Quantitative Reasoning

$99

Plus membership

3 Credits

About This Course

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ACE Approved 2023

Quantitative Reasoning teaches you the practical application of calculations in everyday life. These can include decision-making, saving money, estimating, understanding media reports, among others. Our Quantitative Reasoning online course will make math approachable for you, whether you are planning to be a mathematician, engineer, or looking to enter a different profession. After completing the class, you will have gained confidence in your mathematical abilities and feel comfortable navigating math in your daily life.

Course Outcomes

Solve problems based on various operations on numbers, fractions, decimals, and percents

Apply the unit conversion rules to solve the problems based on unit conversions

Solve problems based on perimeter, area, and volume of various shapes

Apply estimation techniques in 1, 2, and 3 dimensions

Solve equations with an unknown value

Construct and solve equations involving x

Solve problems based on rate and comparison involving x

Apply mathematics to everyday problems based on personal finances, health, utilities, and investments

Interpret tables and graphs for linear functions and piecewise linear functions

Sketch the graph using slope and intercept

Utilize various formulas in the spreadsheet

Construct bar charts and pie charts in spreadsheet

Interpret true-false statements, and if-then statements

Solve problems based on logical operators AND/OR/NOT, sets, and Venn diagrams

Interpret the statements using logical deduction and logical induction

Solve problems involving averages, median, spread, and margins of error

Compare between averages of two subpopulations

Solve problems using counting methods

Apply addition and multiplication rules of probabilities

Solve expected value problems

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Course Text

Prefer the hard copy? Simply purchase from your favorite textbook reseller; you will still get the eTextbook for free. The required eTextbook for this course is included with your course purchase at no additional cost.

Environmental Science: A Study Of Interrelationships

Miller, Julie, and Donna Gerken. College Algebra, 2nd edition, McGraw-Hill, 2017, ISBN: 9780077836344

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