TS 053 - Adult Basic Math

Credits: 1-5
Students learn to easily select and apply the knowledge, skills, and strategies to independently accomplish well-defined and structured math tasks in a range of comfortable and familiar settings using whole numbers, decimals, and percents. This is a pass/no credit course.

Prerequisite: Appropriate placement score on CASAS math assessment and instructor’s permission.

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

1. Read, write, and interpret a variety of common mathematical information about:

• Whole number operations
• Integer operations
• Decimal operations
• Simple Order of operations
• Simple Algebraic expressions
• Fraction operations with benchmark fractions and mixed numbers

1. Demonstrate college-ready level reading, writing, digital literacy, and communication skills in social studies, literature, and science.
2. Demonstrate competency in college-ready level mathematics.
3. Demonstrate the skills necessary for successful transition to college credit courses and/or living wage employment.

• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.