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Nov 23, 2024
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MAT 743 - Technical Math I
Course Department: Industrial Technology
Last Date of Approval: Fall 2020
3 Credits
Total Lecture Hours: 45
Total Lab Hours: 0
Total Clinical Hours: 0
Total Work-Based Experience Hours: 0
Course Description:
This is the first course of the Technical Mathematics sequence. The course will cover basic mathematics as used in technical careers. Topics will include number sets and operations, fractions, ratios, proportions, percent’s, and measurement. Students will develop the skills and reasoning to solve common problems involving mathematics in the workplace. This knowledge gained can also be applied to a variety of situations in everyday life involving mathematical literacy and reasoning.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: None
Mode(s) of Instruction: traditional/face-to-face
Credit for Prior Learning: This course offers an opportunity for students to earn Credit for Prior Learning for skills that they have brought with them to Iowa Central. For more information, please ask the instructor and see the Iowa Central Community College catalog.
Course Fees: ebook/Access Code: $124.99 (charged once per term for all courses that use Cengage Unlimited)
Common Course Assessment(s): Quiz as determined by the Program Coordinator
Student Learning Outcomes and Objectives:
- Read and interpret information in math problems
- Develop and execute strategies for the solution process
- Solve problems with appropriate concepts, operations, and technology
Course Objectives
- Apply operations involving whole numbers
- Apply operations involving fractions
- Apply operations involving decimal numbers
- Apply operations involving percents
- Convert between fractions, decimals and percents
- Apply operations involving ratio and proportion
- Apply operations involving signed values
- Apply principles of accuracy and precision
- Apply operations involving units of measure
- Apply basic methods of statistical measure
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