MATH-114A Health Careers Math W/Skills Review

4 cr.

This course is designed for students needing pre-algebra concepts review and Math for Health Careers. This course reviews the basics of computational skills involving integers, fractions, decimals, and percents to prepare students for the skills needed in the Math for Health Careers portion of this course. This course also introduces the computational skills needed to study in health careers programs. Topics include more difficult operations on fractions, decimals, and percents, as well as the use of formulas, ratios and proportions, and measurements. Students will solve word problems specific to medication orders, the combined gas law, and medical related unit conversions as well as pH and pOH calculations. Prerequisites: Appropriate Math Accuplacer score OR grade C or higher in MATH-050. Offered: All