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| Section I. FOUNDATION SKILLS | ||
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| 1. | COURSE NUMBER: MATH 113 | SEMESTER HOURS: 3 |
| COURSE TITLE: Introduction to Contemporary Mathematics | ||
| 2. | COURSE FORMAT: Lecture (faculty), video. Average class size: 270 per section. | |
| 3. | COURSE OBJECTIVES: (a) to improve the ability of students to apply elementary mathematics to the solution of practical problems; (b) to learn how basic mathematical principles help in understanding a great variety of phenomena in science and society; (c) to understand something of the interplay between mathematics as a liberal art and mathematics as an applied science; and (d) to develop the capacity for critical thinking in the increasing number of areas in contemporary society in which mathematics is a useful tool. | |
| 4. | DETAILED COURSE DESCRIPTION: Introduction to Contemporary Mathematics introduces students to several of the important ideas of mathematics with emphasis on how they relate to the everyday world. Students will learn to quantify our world using mathematical models and formulations of equations; they will be introduced to graph-theoretic models for management sciences, statistical models (their interpretation and the potential for misinterpretation), mathematical descriptions of growth and decay and how to measure the universe. | |
| 5. | REQUIRED READING: For All Practical Purposes, COMAP (1991); Wallis, Sets and Numbers (duplicated notes, Kopies & More); Wallis, Quantifying Your World (duplicated notes, Kopies & More). Text may change Fall Semester 1997. | |
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COURSE REQUIREMENTS AND GRADING: - Several one-hour exams. |
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| 7. | SUBSTITUTIONS: None | 3/97 |
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