# Basic Math (Certificate of Completion)

College of the Desert · 2026-2027 Catalog · Department: Adult Basic Education

Source: https://catalog.collegeofthedesert.edu/programs/adult-basic-education/certificate-of-completion-basic-math/

This certificate will help the student be successful in college level math courses. It also meets the requirements for the General Education Development (GED) certificate as well as high school diploma.

### Learning Outcomes

#### Learning Outcomes

Upon satisfactory completion of this program students will be able to:

1.  Use and comprehend quantitative language in a variety of contexts including units of measurement (e.g. milliseconds, calories), visual representations (e.g. graphs and maps), and scales.
2.  Show quantitative intuition: a subjective "feel" for numbers including the ability to estimate, have a sense of scale, and appropriately use heuristics (rules-of-thumb).
3.  Practice quantitative reasoning: when is quantitative reasoning appropriate and how can it be applied to simple-life problems.
4.  Restate (formulate) a problem mathematically.

### Program Requirements

#### Program Requirements

| Course | Title | Units |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **Required Courses** | |  |
| ABE 342A | Practical Basic Math I | 0 |
| ABE 342B | Practical Basic Math II | 0 |
| ABE 344A | Math for Living I | 0 |
| ABE 344B | Math for Living II | 0 |