Practical Math 1

Course ID: MTH-101

Audience
Adult Continuing Education and High School Programs

Course Description
How does math play a role in everyday life? People use it in many ways: to tell time, find an address, make change, or count calories. Math is also useful when balancing a checkbook, measuring ingredients, or taking medication. Clearly, math skills are important. This course teaches how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide whole numbers and fractions. Moreover, throughout the course, the student has opportunities to apply these topics to real-life situations. The goal of this course is to enable the student to develop the math skills needed for daily living and further studies.

Media
large print and braille

Organization
12 lessons

Credit
No credit

Prerequisite Skills
none

Overview
Students submit twelve assignments in any media, except audiocassette.

Grading
Letter grades

Objectives and Content
After completing Lesson 1, the student will be able to
• define whole numbers
• indicate place value
• change whole numbers from words to digits and vice versa
• tell if a whole number is greater than, less than, or equal to another whole number
• put whole numbers in order from least to greatest and vice versa
• change a whole number to the nearest ten, hundred, or thousand

After completing Lesson 2, the student will be able to
• solve basic addition problems
• add larger numbers
• solve addition problems with regrouping

After completing Lesson 3, the student will be able to
• solve basic subtraction problems
• subtract larger numbers
• subtract with one regrouping
• subtract with more than one regrouping

After completing Lesson 4, the student will be able to
• solve basic multiplication problems
• multiply larger numbers
• solve multiplication problems with regrouping
• multiply by numbers containing zero

After completing Lesson 5, the student will be able to
• solve basic division problems
• divide and have remainders in answers
• divide larger numbers
• divide by larger numbers

After completing Lesson 6, the student will be able to
• test numbers for divisibility
• find factors of a number
• find multiples of a number

After completing Lesson 7, the student will be able to
• define a fraction and its parts
• explain how to write equivalent fractions
• find common denominators
• compare and order fractions

After completing Lesson 8, the student will be able to
• change mixed numbers to improper fractions, and improper fractions to mixed numbers
• order fractions and mixed numbers

After completing Lesson 9, the student will be able to
• multiply fractions
• cancel when multiplying fractions
• multiply fractions by whole numbers and mixed numbers

After completing Lesson 10, the student will be able to
• divide fractions
• divide mixed numbers

After completing Lesson 11, the student will be able to
• add like fractions
• subtract like fractions
• add like mixed numbers
• subtract like mixed numbers

After completing Lesson 12, the student will be able to
• add unlike fractions
• subtract unlike fractions
• add unlike mixed numbers
• subtract unlike mixed numbers