Fall 2018

Course Description: This course is a general overview of mathematical concepts used in quantitative reasoning. This course places quantitative skills and reasoning in the context of experiences that students will be likely to encounter. It emphasizes processing information in context from a variety of representations, understanding of both the information and the processing, and understanding which conclusions can be reasonably determined. Topics include the mathematics of elections, network theory, population growth models, financial mathematics, statistics and probability. This class meet once a week for three hours. Much of the course work, including discussions and assignments, are to be completed online and can be found on Moodle, https://lms.manhattan.edu.