This course is designed to help adults develop personal math skills. Adult Fundamental Level 6 Mathematics will give students a foundational knowledge of ratio, proportion and percents; converting between decimals, fractions and percents and about graphs.
Hours: 60 (Seminar Hours: 60)
Total Weeks: 20
Prerequisites:
“C“ or higher in MATH025 or equivalent or Fundamental Level Placement on the CCP Math Assessment.
Non-Course Prerequisites:
None
Co-Requisites:
None
Course Content:
- Number & Number Operations
- Operations & Applications
- Patterns, Functions & Relations
- Real Life Applications
- Measurement
- Geometry
- Skills and Strategies for Learning
Learning Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
Ratio & Proportion
- Write the relationship between two numbers or quantities as a ratio
- Write the relationship between two numbers or quantities with different units as a rate
- Write proportion as a statement of equivalence between two ratios
- Determine if a proportion is true using both common denominators & cross multiplying
- Solve a proportion for a missing term
Percent
- Convert a decimal to a percent
- Convert a percent to a decimal
- Convert a fraction to a percent
- Convert a percent to a fraction
- Find a percent of a number
- Find what percent one number is of another
- Find a number when a percent is given
- Apply ratio and proportion to solve problems involving real-life situations including percent increase and decrease
- Read and obtain information from a bar graph
- Read and obtain information from a line graph
- Read and obtain information from a circle graph
- Read and obtain information from a table
- Recognize percent notation as a denominator of 100
- Express the relationship between two numbers as a percent
- Estimate percentages (mental shopping)
- Calculate discounts on purchases
- Calculate tips on service
- Calculate tax
- Calculate wage increase
- Calculate budget
Graphs
- Explain or show with examples: the different elements of a graph
- Identify bar graph
- Identify line graph
- Identify circle graph
- Identify pictograph
- Identify histogram
- Read and obtain information from a bar graph
- Read and obtain information from a line graph
- Read and obtain information from a circle graph
- Read and obtain information from a table
- Set further numeracy goals
- Use critical thinking skills
- Build math confidence
- Move on to other tasks while waiting for help
- Write tests in a variety of formats
- Locate and correct errors
- Use strategies to manage test-taking anxiety
- Manage frustrations of learning
- Apply logical thinking to math operations
Grading System: Other
Passing Grade: Mastery of Learning Outcomes
Percentage of Individual Work: 100
Additional Course Information:
Individually paced learning. In assessment, it may be determined that some of the outcomes have already been met. In this case, students will focus on the outcomes which still need to be achieved.
Textbooks:
Textbooks are subject to change. Please contact the bookstore at your local campus for current book lists.