It is a study of mathematical systems, sets, measurement, linear functions, matrices, counting, statistics, and geometry. The hand held calculator is studied and used throughout the course.
Special attention is paid to applications of the various ideas explored.
Efforts will be made throughout the course to enhance the student's development in the psychomotor, social, emotional, and spiritual domains as well as the cognitive domain. To gain an understanding of how to use calculators for more than basic operations of addition and multiplication. To learn what a mathematical system is and to develop that understanding with some non-traditional models. To learn some basic algebra and geometry with applications. To develop the idea of an algebraic function and to graph some linear and quadratic functions.