Online Class: Basic Math 101
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Course Description
Mastering Basic Mathematics: A Comprehensive Guide
Mathematics is an indispensable skill that plays a crucial role in our daily lives. From calculating expenses to determining time schedules or even cooking, basic mathematical knowledge helps us navigate numerous life situations. Yet, many find themselves intimidated by numbers or lost in the maze of operations. Our aim is to ensure that every student walks away with a clear understanding and a renewed confidence in their ability to handle foundational mathematical problems.
Current research indicates that a significant number of adults experience math anxiety, with some sources pointing out that nearly 1 in 5 adults in the U.S. are considered 'innumerate,' struggling with basic mathematical concepts. Whether you've felt the pangs of such anxiety or are simply looking for a refresher course, this comprehensive program is designed for you.
Why This Course?
Whether you're:
- Facing Current Academic Challenges: Battling through a challenging math course?
- Transitioning in Your Career: Stepping into a job that requires solid math proficiency?
- Simply Curious: Wishing to review, refresh, or extend your mathematical horizons?
This course offers tailored content that breaks down complex ideas into digestible modules, backed by practical examples that make learning both engaging and effective.
Prerequisites: While no previous formal education is necessary, it's beneficial if students possess a reading comprehension at or above a 7th-grade level to ensure smooth progression through the material.
Course Breakdown:
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Numbers and Terminology: Dive into the language of mathematics, understand its syntax, and familiarize yourself with key terms.
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Addition: The building block of arithmetic. Explore the nuances, techniques, and real-world applications.
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Subtraction: More than just taking away. Understand its role in finance, time management, and more.
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Multiplication: Unravel the intricacies of this operation through practical examples from areas like area calculation and data analysis.
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Division: From sharing to partitioning resources, explore division's real-world relevance.
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Signs used in Operations: Grasp the interplay of positive and negative numbers in operations, vital for tasks such as financial management and temperature measurement.
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Operations and Properties: Dive deeper into the structure and laws governing arithmetic, laying a foundation for more advanced math.
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Fractions: Often feared, yet immensely practical. Understand the concept behind fractions and their everyday implications, like cooking or carpentry.
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Decimals & The Decimal Number System: From money to measurements, decimals are everywhere. Master their usage and conversion techniques.
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Percentages: From shopping discounts to interest rates, percentages play a pivotal role in daily life. Learn to calculate, convert, and apply them proficiently.
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Other Operations: Cover additional mathematical tools and techniques, ensuring a well-rounded arithmetic foundation.
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Calculators: In today's digital age, calculators are ubiquitous. Learn to harness their power effectively, ensuring accuracy and efficiency.
Unique Features:
Each lesson is accompanied by videos, assignments, exams, and supplementary materials, including netlinks, polls, surveys, and documents, offering a multifaceted learning experience. These materials bolster understanding, providing both theoretical knowledge and practical application.
Conclusion:
In a world increasingly driven by data and numbers, foundational math skills are more important than ever. This course, structured with clarity and precision, ensures that you not only understand basic mathematical concepts but can apply them confidently in real-life scenarios. Join us on this enlightening journey and turn your mathematical apprehensions into a strength!
- Completely Online
- Self-Paced
- Printable Lessons
- Full HD Video
- 6 Months to Complete
- 24/7 Availability
- Start Anytime
- PC & Mac Compatible
- Android & iOS Friendly
- Accredited CEUs
Course Lessons
Lesson 1. Understanding One-to-One Correspondence in Everyday Contexts
Numbers earn their representation through numerals, and their significance is further enhanced by place value, which conveys the weight of each digit based on its position. This system becomes progressively complex with the introduction of multi-digit numbers and their effect on calculations and interpretations, especially with decimals.Lesson 2. Discovering the Fundamentals of Addition: From Number Lines to Grouping
Placing numbers on a number line helps visualize addition, exemplified by adding together groups like boys and girls, illustrating how movement rightward reflects the summing action. Memorizing addition facts with tools like flash cards can improve speed, as can organizing numbers vertically for easier calculation.Lesson 3. Subtraction Basics
The lesson describes subtraction as reversing addition, using the number line to visualize moving left to achieve the difference. Subtraction facts ease computations and regrouping is essential in complex scenarios where the subtrahend exceeds the minuend.Lesson 4. Exploring the Dynamics of Multiplication Through Grouping
By viewing multiplication through grouping, complex sums like 4 x 3 become simplified and showcase the universality of multiplication signs like x, *, or (). The identity element 'one' maintains a number's value when multiplied, while the zero factor renders results null, emphasizing strategic calculations.Lesson 5. Understanding the Inverse of Multiplication
In division, numbers are divided into smaller, equal groups, with the process being the inverse of multiplying. Key elements include terminologies like divisor and quotient, and zero division remains undefined.Lesson 6. Positive and Negative Numbers: A Comprehensive Overview
Multiplying numbers of different signs yields a negative product, while multiplying two negative numbers results in a positive product, emphasizing rules for handling positive and negative interactions. Division operates similarly, producing a positive result for same-sign operations and a negative result for different-sign scenarios.Lesson 7. The Complexity Behind Whole Numbers: Closure and Beyond
To solve problems involving multiple operations, the order of operations (PEMDAS) dictates the sequence: Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication/Division (left to right), and Addition/Subtraction (left to right). Following this sequence ensures accuracy across varied mathematical scenarios.Lesson 8. Mastering the Art of Fractions: Discovery through Division
A fraction's denominator denotes how many equal parts a whole is split into, making it possible to share a whole item, like a pizza, among people. Mastery of fractions involves learning how to identify proper, improper, and mixed numbers, simplify fractions, and perform arithmetic operations with them by aligning denominators.Lesson 9. The Basics of Base Ten Arithmetic
Decimals simplify fraction conversions through precise rounding practices, helping maintain value integrity across different numerical forms. Accurate place value alignment is essential for error-free addition and subtraction of decimal numbers.Lesson 10. From Fractions to Finance: Mastering Percent Calculations for Daily Life
Percents represent a formulaic approach to expressing parts of a whole, with transformations to decimals performed by shifting the decimal point. Everyday examples of percent use include calculating markups in retail, determining final prices after discounts, and computing earning or paying interest.Lesson 11. Mastering Rounding: A Dive into Significant Digits
Rounding steeped in significant figures is crucial for translating theoretical values into practical financial applications, ensuring decimal precision aligns with currency divisions. Estimation, powers, and scientific notation collectively bolster arithmetic efficiency and clarity.Lesson 12. Mastering Your Mobile Calculator: A Visual Guide
While calculators simplify arithmetic tasks, including working with percentages and converting fractions to decimals, users must clear operations and use estimation to prevent errors. The lesson advises using calculators judiciously, ensuring an understanding of how each feature operates to accurately interpret scientific notation and other complex functions.
Learning Outcomes
- Define and explain the differences between rational and irrational numbers, using examples of each.
- Identify and demonstrate one-to-one correspondence using objects and numbers on a number line.
- Analyze a vertical addition problem to demonstrate understanding of column alignment and carrying when sums exceed ten.
- Define the terms 'addend,' 'sum,' and 'plus sign' and illustrate their use in simple addition scenarios.
- Define and apply the terms minuend, subtrahend, and difference to solve subtraction problems involving two-digit numbers.
- Demonstrate the ability to use number lines to perform and verify subtraction operations for values up to 20.
- Define multiplication as a process of adding equal groups and identify factors, multiplicand, and multiplier in given multiplication problems.
- Demonstrate multiplication using both single and multi-digit numbers, and apply the use of place value alignment and carrying for accuracy.
- Apply divisibility rules to determine if a number is divisible by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 9.
- Identify and calculate the quotient and remainder in division problems involving a dividend and single-digit divisor.
- Demonstrate the ability to perform arithmetic operations involving positive and negative numbers and apply rules for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
- Recognize and correctly identify positive and negative numbers on a number line and determine their relative positions.
- Recognize the closure property of whole numbers under addition and multiplication but not under subtraction and division.
- Demonstrate mastery of lesson content at levels of 70% or higher.
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Student Testimonials
- "Wow, this class really made me use my brain. It also made me realize that watching the lesson videos in a math class is super important because just reading the material and not seeing examples is not very easy. Thanks for the refresher." -- Stephanie A.
- "I thought this was a very helpful course and I enjoyed relearning things and learning things I didn't quite get the first time. Thank you for this course I appreciate this." -- Josh B.
- "I felt like it was extremely helpful and exactly what I was looking for. The lessons were great and the option to spend time doing worksheets on anything I needed extra help with was perfect. Sometimes just the lesson alone was enough and sometimes I needed the confidence of working some of the practice problems, I liked that I had the options." -- Heather P.
- "The instructor provided Feedback. The lesson plans were well organized. There were plenty of practice problems. I would definitely take another class that this instructor is teaching." -- Shirley A.
- "The instructor was very professional, presented herself well, and was kind to me especially when expressing her kudos to my lessons well done." -- Marie line J.
- "The instructor was very helpful, and provided excellent feedback. She allowed me to retake an exam when I had problems, after I reviewed the material again." -- Judith J.
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