2024-2025 Surry Community College Catalog 
    
    Nov 21, 2024  
2024-2025 Surry Community College Catalog
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MAT - 143 Quantitative Literacy


Class Hours: 2 Lab Hours: 2 Credit Hours: 3
When Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

Prerequisite(s): MAT 003  and ENG 002 
Corequisite(s): MAT 043 
Local Prerequisite(s): None
Local Co-requisite(s): None

Successful completion of MAT 152  permits a student to register for MAT 143 without the corequisite of MAT 043 . This course is designed to engage students in complex and realistic situations involving the mathematical phenomena of quantity, change and relationship, and uncertainty through project- and activity-based assessment. Emphasis is placed on authentic contexts which will introduce the concepts of numeracy, proportional reasoning, dimensional analysis, rates of growth, personal finance, consumer statistics, practical probabilities, and mathematics for citizenship. Upon completion, students should be able to utilize quantitative information as consumers and to make personal, professional, and civic decisions by decoding, interpreting, using, and communicating quantitative information found in modern media and encountered in everyday life. *This course has been approved for transfer under the CAA and ICAA as a general education course in Mathematics (Quantitative). This course has been approved for transfer under the Comprehensive Articulation Agreement as a Universal General Education Transfer Component (UGETC) course for mathematics (AA).*



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