Core Course Topics
Decimals and Fractions as Percents in Business
Payroll
Discounts
Markup
Simple and Compound Interest
Business and Consumer Loans
Depreciation
Business Statistics
Quantitative Literacy Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
Add, subtract, multiply, and divide numbers with decimals.
Calculate percentages.
Solve increase and decrease story problems related to business scenarios.
Calculate gross earnings for a variety of payroll methods including hourly, salary, piecework, and commission.
Calculate overtime earnings for a variety of payroll methods including hourly, salary, piecework, and commission.
Calculate equivalent earnings for different pay periods.
Calculate Social Security tax, Medicare tax, federal tax, and state tax on earnings.
Calculate series discounts.
Differentiate between single and series discounts.
Calculate the net cost equivalent of a series discount.
Calculate markup based on cost.
Calculate markup based on selling price.
Solve for cost or selling price based on markup.
Determine the break-even point.
Determine the amount of gross or absolute profit or loss.
Solve for simple interest.
Calculate maturity value on a simple interest account.
Solve for principal, rate, and time.
Differentiate between simple and compound interest.
Solve for compound interest.
Calculate maturity value on a compound interest account.
Estimate the value of an investment using future and present value.
Calculate finance charges based on various terms of agreement.
Calculate monthly payments, interest amounts, and payoff amounts of an installment loan, personal property loan, or real estate loan.
Use the straight-line method to solve for depreciation.
Solve for the mean, median, and mode of a list of numbers.
Computing any type of arithmetic or non- arithmetic calculation that is well defined
Analyzing information presented as tables, graphic figures, charts, etc
Creating a model to represent data or numerical information. (Deliverables: physical model, equation, graph, or table).
Applying a mathematical process to your industry or discipline specific problem.