M 105 - Contemporary Math

3 credits

Designed to help liberal arts students develop quantitative reasoning skills they will need for college, career, and life. Will also provide students with the skills required to understand and interpret quantitative information that they encounter in the news and in their studies, and to make numerically-based decision in their lives. Topics include working with large numbers and units, linear and exponential relations, financial mathematics, and essentials of probability and statistics.

Prerequisite(s): M 140 , STAT 131 , STAT 216 or higher or required test scores: ACT 22-23; SAT section score 550-570; ALEKS 46-60; College Success 115-150: Co-req M 191 support lab required with test scores: ACT 18-19; SAT section score 480-510; ALEKS 14-29; or College Success 90-102.