Corequisite Support Materials

Acceleration for Every Pathway

Supplemental corequisite support worksheets are available for Quantitative Reasoning, Introductory Statistics: Analyzing Data with Purpose, and Foundations of Mathematical Reasoning and are aligned day-by-day with the parent course content. These materials are appropriate for use with either a co-mingled or cohort model.

The Reasoning with Functions 1  course is specially designed with seamlessly embedded corequisite content that is aligned directly with RF1 outcomes. It is therefore only appropriate for a cohort model.

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• Foundations of Mathematical Reasoning

  The Foundations course is a developmental-level course that, when paired with its corequisite materials, may be used to accelerate very underprepared students such as those at the Arithmetic or Adult Education levels.

  Contact hour recommendations:

  Foundations course: 4 contact hours per week

  Corequisite support course: 3 contact hours per week.

  Total: 7 contact hours per week

  Students in the support coursework collaboratively on in-class worksheets. Each worksheet has been backmapped from the Foundations course so that underprepared students will be able to complete their upcoming preview assignments independently.

  Upon successful completion of this course, students are ready to enter any gateway/entry-level mathematics course. Some institutions may require, or students may choose to enroll in, corequisite supports to accompany the subsequent mathematics course.

• Quantitative Reasoning

  The DCMP Quantitative Reasoning (QR) course is a college-level gateway course that, when paired with its corequisite materials, may be used to accelerate underprepared students such as those at the Elementary or Intermediate Algebra levels.

  Contact hour recommendations:

  Quantitative Reasoning course: 3 contact hours per week

  Corequisite support course: 3 contact hours per week.

  Total: 6 contact hours per week

  Students in the support coursework collaboratively on in-class worksheets. Each worksheet sheet has been backmapped from QR course lessons so that underprepared students will be able to complete their upcoming preview assignments independently.

• Reasoning with Functions 1

  The DCMP Reasoning with Functions 1 (RF1) course is a gateway course combining the elements of Intermediate Algebra and College Algebra that are essential for success in Calculus. Because developmental content is embedded within the course, it is recommended that the course be offered with a minimum of five contact hours. The hours are often denoted in student records as 4 college-level credits with 1 developmental-level credit or as 3 college-level and 2 developmental-level credits.

  Upon successful completion of this course, students are ready to enter Reasoning with Functions 2, which contains the trigonometric and geometric reasoning skills needed for Calculus.

• Introductory Statistics: Analyzing Data with Purpose

  The DCMP Introductory Statistics: Analyzing Data with Purpose (ISAP) course is a gateway course in introductory statistics that, when paired with its corequisite materials, may be used to accelerate underprepared students such as those at the Elementary or Intermediate Algebra levels.

  Contact hour recommendations:

  Introductory Statistics: Analyzing Data with Purpose course: 3 or 4 contact hours per week

  Corequisite support course: 3 or 4 contact hours per week.

  Total: 6 or 8 contact hours per week

  Students in the support coursework collaboratively on in-class worksheets. Each worksheet has been backmapped from the ISAP course lessons so that underprepared students will be able to complete their upcoming preview assignments independently.

• Designing Your Own Materials

  Institutions using materials other than the DCMP curricula may find the following resources helpful:

  • Defining the Content of Support Courses for Underprepared Students (webinar recording)
  • Corequisite Design (webinar recording) 
  • Corequisite Supports: Narrowing the Gap Between Instruction and Supports (brief) 

  We also offer extended training in a face-to-face format which can be done at an institution, in a region, in a system, or in a state. 

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