3 credits
Fall 2025 Lecture Credit By ExaminationLower DivisionQuantitative Reasoning
Elementary school teachers must understand how multiplication gives rise to exponents and how to represent, interpret, and compute exponents from problem situations. They must also understand how to represent practical situations using algebraic and fractional expressions, and verbally interpret graphs of functions. They have to know basic concepts of probability theory. This course covers conceptual and practical notions of exponents and radicals; algebraic and rational functions, algebraic equations and inequalities, systems of linear equations, polynomial, exponential, and logarithmic functions. Notions of probability.
Learning Outcomes1To conceptually understand and correctly perform algebraic operations, solve algebraic equations of degree two, perform operations with exponents and radicals, sketch graphs of certain polynomial, exponential and logarithmic functions.
2To understand inequalities involving linear functions.
3To solve 2x2 systems of equation.
4To understand basic notions of probability, including combinations, permutations, probability of one and/or another event and conditional probability.
Prerequisites
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