Aaron’s Profile

This course aims to teach stu­dents how to think com­pe­tently about quan­ti­ta­tive in­for­ma­tion. Stu­dents learn how to take real-world prob­lems, trans­late them into math­e­mat­ics, and solve them. Top­ics in­clude think­ing crit­i­cally, num­bers in the real world, fi­nan­cial man­age­ment, sta­tis­ti­cal rea­son­ing, prob­a­bil­ity, and math­e­mat­i­cal mod­el­ing.

This course aims to teach students how to think competently about quantitative information. Students learn how to take real-world problems, translate them into mathematics, and solve them. Topics include thinking critically, numbers in the real world, financial management, statistical reasoning, probability, and mathematical modeling.