2024-2025 Catalog

MATH-128 Math for the Modern World

From the ISBN on a book, to buying a car, from the size of small chips in a cell phone, to the size of the national debt, or just reading a graph in the daily newspaper, mathematics plays an important and vital role in countless areas of life and your future career and courses included. Mathematics is both an art and a tool created by humans. The common bond is a way of thinking and a way of reasoning to describe and solve problems of many types. This course uses the context of modern real life problems to introduce math needed for literacy and problem solving in contemporary life and work. It uses a minimal amount of algebra and focuses on math models, concepts and basic math manipulations. It encourages students to move from anxiety about math, to using formulas well, to thinking critically in the math context to use math to solve problems and pose new problems. Topics include scientific notation, basic financial math, linear, exponential and polynomial models and an introduction to probability. Several sections offered each semester. (Formerly Math 132)

Credits

4

Prerequisite

Student has satisfied all of the following Institution has received a(n) Math Placement Exam test result with a(n) Math score greater than or equal to 15. Or Student has satisfied all of the following Student has completed any of the following course(s) MATH 000 - Mathshop Bridge to College Math with grade greater than or equal to P (Undergraduate Grading Scheme). Or Student has satisfied all of the following Student has completed any of the following course(s) MATH 104 - Precalculus for Management and Social Sciences