• Quantitative Literacy (Quant Lit) (3 hours) 

• • For all catalogs 2024-2025 and beyond, this course meets the True Blue Core (TBC) curriculum requirement for Quantitative Literacy (Quant Lit). To learn more about TBC requirements: https://w1.mtsu.edu/truebluecore/core.php. 
  • For all catalogs prior to 2024-2025, this course meets the general education curriculum requirements for Mathematics (3 hours). To learn more about general education requirements for catalogs prior to 2024-2025: https://w1.mtsu.edu/gen_ed/requirements.php. 
  • The TBC outcome for Quantitative Literacy: Students demonstrate the ability to interpret, represent, calculate, apply, and analyze numerical data in a variety of settings, and will make assumptions and communicate those assumptions based on quantitative information. 

Description:

Applied Statistics The correct use of data is important for an informed adult. We are currently living in a time where there is more data being generated than ever before, and the kind of thinking that is required to approach not only creating reports on that data, but also being the reader or user of such reports is an important life skill. In MATH 1530 students use data sets related to a wide variety of fields, to acquire and demonstrate the ability to graphically display data, choose the correct statistical analysis techniques, calculate the statistical measures related to those techniques, and interpret the results of those calculations, all skills essential to possessing quantitative literacy. Using both graphical analysis techniques and analytical analysis techniques teaches students to critically evaluate the amount of information available in a given set of data. For a detailed description and course syllabus go to https://w1.mtsu.edu/math/course-materials.php.