Co-Requisite Course for Quantitative Reasoning

What is a Co-Requisite Course for Quantitative Reasoning?

The purpose of the Co-requisite Course for Quantitative Reasoning is to help underprepared students acquire the basic math skills that they need to successfully complete the Quantitative Reasoning Class (sometimes called Liberal Arts Math, Math for Society, or Quantitative Literacy). The co-requisite course is a remedial class and is required to be taken during the same semester as Quantitative Reasoning. At some schools, the content of the two classes is integrated into a single course, but at others, the classes meet separately.

Data show that co-requisites, as remedial support for students who are not college ready, have been highly successful in helping those students to complete college math courses within the first semester. Topics taught in the co-requisite for quantitative reasoning class will provide help with the prerequisite skills needed to understand the content in the quantitative reasoning course. One possible example is that math skills for business such as compound interest, depreciation, and amortization are often taught in quantitative reasoning. For students lacking basic math skills, a better understanding of working with percentages and using order of operations could help them to perform the necessary calculations correctly. Therefore, the co-requisite coursework might include lessons on percent.