This course is designed to provide students with the foundational skills in understanding place value, adding, subtracting, and multiplying whole numbers, comparing two and three digit numbers, and solving word problems. 

• This course has rolling enrollment - students can join at any time. It meets Mondays from 9:00-10:30 am.

The course is designed to provide students with a deeper understanding of base-ten numbers & operations, basic fractions, and operations & algebraic thinking.  Students will solve one and two-step word problems.

• This course has rolling enrollment - students can join at any time. It meets Tuesdays from 1:00-2:30 and Fridays from 1:00-2:00.

This lab is designed to provide students with the foundational skills and math support necessary to prepare for the TABE M assessment.  

• This lab has rolling enrollment - students can join at any time. It meets Tuesdays and Thursdays from 11:00-12:30 am. 

What math skills do business, construction, and healthcare have in common? Answer: Calculations using the parts of the whole. This course will focus on calculations and applications of fractions, decimals, and percents. It is applicable to anyone who has struggled with these concepts and provides a good foundation for other VAL Math courses.

• Mondays and Wednesdays from 1:00-2:30 beginning April 28, 2025

Numbers form the backbone of representing value and quantity of things like money, food, resources, etc. But the number system that we use didn’t just pop up out of nowhere! Learn about the history of ancient number systems and work with them for fun and insight. Learn about and work with integers, decimals, and exponents. Play counting games, explore patterns, and perform operations with integers, decimals, and exponents to reason through puzzles and problems.

• Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10:30-12:00 beginning April 29, 2025

Statistics are everywhere - in the news, on the internet, on utility and credit card bills, etc. Students will learn about statistical concepts, including gathering and summarizing data and the fundamental concepts of probability. This course is designed to help students prepare for careers in business, marketing, or real estate. This course also prepares students to take the TABE D level, the GED, or Accuplacer Quantitative Reasoning, Algebra, and Statistics assessments. 

• Mondays and Wednesdays from 11:00-12:30 beginning April 28, 2025

Geometry and spatial knowledge are important for accomplishing many home projects and hobbies. In this course, students will gain knowledge in geometry concepts in one, two, and three dimensions.  This is a good course for anyone wanting a job in the trades, architecture, design, woodworking, arts, etc. This course is designed to help students prepare to take the TABE D level, the GED, or Accuplacer Quantitative Reasoning, Algebra, and Statistics assessments. 

• Mondays and Wednesdays from 9:00-10:30 beginning April 28, 2025

Algebraic thinking is important for many technical programs and jobs. In this course, students will explore the foundations of Algebra and will learn how to apply all concepts to real-world situations. This course is designed to help students prepare for technical careers such as nursing, advanced manufacturing, and design. It is also designed to help students take the TABE D level, the GED, or Accuplacer Quantitative Reasoning, Algebra, and Statistics assessments. 

• Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:00-10:30 beginning April 29, 2025

At its core, math is about having fun, being creative with tools and ideas, and explaining why things work the way they do! This class is geared towards just that - fun and creativity. Mathematical reasoning is different than the kind of reasoning we use for other subjects, but it is rooted in critical thinking at its core. We’ll be exploring games, puzzles, and patterns of all sorts to get familiar with building up that reasoning.

• Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5:00-6:30 PM beginning April 29, 2025

We use fractions in our everyday lives and this class will help you visualize and feel comfortable working with them! This course will introduce students to fractions and cover everything needed about this topic related to the TABE M test and beyond. 

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 This course will do a deep dive into the world of probability and advanced applications of fractions. We will be solving word problems that represent real-world scenarios, and we will be learning how to use fractions to describe probability. Everyday life is messy and full of randomness. Learning to use fractions to predict, prepare, and design for the unexpected is invaluable! 

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This course will give students the following tools: Understanding what data is, how we collect it, and how we interpret it; Understanding randomness and variability in data; Understanding and computing measures of center to interpret data; Learning ways to visualize data; Determining trends in data; Making confident conclusions about data; Assessing the quality of those conclusions; Using software like Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets to visualize data.

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Algebra tends to be a web of topics that all come together to allow us to manipulate equations and solve them for more information. However, that process is difficult and requires reading into a sort of “algebraic language”. Not only do we need to be able to describe problems in terms of equations, but we need to be able to read through information we’re given and pick out key ideas that will form pieces of those equations. We need to be able to understand these equations in full - from describing all their pieces, to using insight from other topics to construct the pieces. This is not just a math process, it’s just as much a language-based one. 

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If you can't tell how graphs, tables and functions are related then this course is for you. It will begin by examining ratios, rates, unit rates/unit price, and proportions.  It will next look at the calculation of percent rate of change, taxes and fees, discounts and markups, gratuity and commission, and simple interest.  The course will proceed to understand converting measurements.  Finally, students will work to understand functions, where the focus will be on constants of proportionality, using tables and graphs to identify functions, and identifying and constructing equations that depict certain functions.

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Have you ever wanted to understand how steep a hill or a road is? Have you ever wanted to outpace an opponent in a race? Maybe you’ve wanted to figure out how many days it’d take you to save up for a bill or a new purchase? Maybe you’re just trying to draw out a floor or a room-plan and need to make some lines to scale! This is where lines, shapes, and rates of change come into play. Most things in our world don’t really follow clear-cut lines or proportional relationships. However, we can use lines and proportions to make guesses at underlying patterns or to explain some of the simpler things in our world. This can be a very powerful tool to build off of. Not only can we use these lines, we can visualize and reference them in spaces we make too! When we use lines to make shapes, we get to choose how to visualize them. 

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From everyday math to algebra, there are concepts that serve to create a foundation for everything else. While scattered, these concepts aid in being able to do algebra, understand measurement, work with shapes, understand comparison between numbers, and maintain balance in equations. This piece of foundation will not only be useful in a pre-algebra or algebra class, but will extend to other classes too. 

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Often students who have taken Algebra, Geometry, and/or Statistics still need help with number theories, functions, ratios, and proportions.  This course provides additional support in these areas. From this knowledge, students will also work with basic measurement conversions (time, distance, speed). This course reinforces the math skills needed for home and at the workplace. This course also prepares students to take the TABE D level, the GED, or Accuplacer Quantitative Reasoning, Algebra, and Statistics assessments. 

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This course is well suited to students who have already taken a Personal Finance or Financial Literacy course and want to deepen their knowledge while also strengthening their math skills. 

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If you are not ready to jump into Algebra, you may want to take this course. It begins with a review of the four basic mathematical functions before introducing algebraic concepts then rounds out by calculating interest, taxes, fees, discounts, and percent rate of change. This course reinforces the math skills needed for home and at the workplace. It is also designed to help students take the TABE M level, the GED, or Accuplacer Quantitative Reasoning, Algebra, and Statistics assessments. 

There are no classes scheduled at this time.