The Power of Math   

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 .5 credit semester, Grades 11-12

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When am I ever going to use math when I leave high school?

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Students will develop the habit of using mathematics to make decisions in everyday life. This is a non-algebra based course, which will help students develop quantitative literacy and appreciate the nature of mathematics and its importance for comprehending issues in the public realm. Students will look at how mathematics helps us understand logic and the media, inflation and depreciation, taxation, borrowing and spending, patterns and nature, and fitness and sports.