WOS 064 - Basic Math for Health Care Workers

1 Continuing Education Units (CEU). This course is not for Credit(s).

This course is designed to enable students to learn the math required in allied health courses and in the health care field. Topics to be covered include addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; fraction and decimals; converting fractions to decimals and decimals to fractions; using the metric system for measurements; and setting up basic algebraic equations.

Course Objectives:

1. add, subtract, multiply, and divide fractions;
2. add, subtract, multiply, and divide decimals;
3. convert basic measurements by the metric system; and
4. use basic algebraic equations to solve health care problems.

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