Welcome to Quantitative Skills and Reasoning! Just what are quantitative skills and reasoning? The simple answer is working with numbers, making sense of data, and using your brain to figure things out. This particular class at UWG will cover fundamental concepts from problem-solving, statistics, probability, graphs, logic, sets, measurements, and finance.
Memorizing formulas and just being able to do problems are not enough to truly besuccessful in math classes or college. In order to succeed in math, students must fullyunderstand the concepts, be able to apply them to real-world problem solving and be able to make sense of the results. Here we will focus on not just the what and when, but also the why, how, and where is it used. Most students who do not succeed in math or dislike math, probably were told: "Just do it the way I told you, get through it quickly and move on. Don’t worry about understanding it". I have seen many students with a fear and dislike of math, who have succeeded and actually started to like it, once they are shown the "big picture" and how it all comes together.