MAT 141 - OpenStax Sections
Note: Based on Contemporary Mathematics by Donna Kirk.
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Textbook Sections
- Section 6.1 - Understanding Percent
- Section 6.2 - Discounts, Markups, and Sales Tax
- Section 6.3 - Simple Interest
- Section 6.4 - Compound Interest
- Section 6.6 - Methods of Savings
- Section 6.8 - The Basic of Loans
- Section 7.1 - The Multiplication Rule for Counting
- Section 7.2 - Permutations
- Section 7.3 - Combinations
- Section 7.5 - Basic Concepts of Probability
- Section 7.6 - Probability with Permutations and Combinations
- Section 8.3 - Mean, Median and Mode
- Section 8.4 - Range and Standard Deviation
- Section 8.6 - The Normal Distribution
- Section 8.7 - Applications of the Normal Distribution
- Section 10.1 - Points, Lines, and Planes
- Section 10.2 - Angles
- Section 10.3 - Triangles
- Section 10.4 - Polygons, Perimeter, and Circumference
- Section 10.6 - Area
- Section 10.7 - Volume and Surface Area
- Section 10.8 - Right Triangle Trigonometry
- Section 11.1 - Voting Methods
- Section 11.2 - Fairness in Voting Methods
- Section 11.3 - Standard Divisors, Standard Quotas, and the Apportionment Problem
- Section 11.4 - Apportionment Methods
Sections by Competency
- 11.1, 11.2
- 11.2
- 11.3, 11.4
- 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.6, 6.8
- 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.5, 7.6
- 7.5
- 8.3, 8.4, 8.6, 8.7
- 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.6, 10.7
- 10.5, 10.8 (Pythagorean Theorem Only)
KCTCS Competencies
Upon completion of this course, the student can:
- Compare and contrast a variety of voting methods, including majority, plurality, runoff, Borda count, and pairwise methods.
- Determine the winner of an election from a preference schedule using the methods aforementioned.
- Solve real-world problems related to apportionment.
- Calculate interest on investments and loans and other financial tools, including amortization schedules.
- Calculate the probability of outcome of an event with and without replacement, combinations and permutations.
- Apply the Law of Large Numbers to critical thinking problems.
- Calculate and interpret basic descriptive statistical measures such as mean, median, mode, range, variance, standard deviation, and determine z-scores from a normal distribution.
- Solve problems using basic two- and three-dimensional geometry.
- Solve geometry problems using similarity, scalability, and Pythagorean Theorem.