Advanced Quantitative Reasoning
Advanced Quantitative Reasoning (AQR) meets the 4th-year math requirement while providing students with practical decision-making skills. Course content focuses on money, investing, and analyzing data for decision-making, and the course is designed for seniors as an alternative to the calculus/trigonometry track. It has been developed using materials created by the Charles A. Dana Center at The University of Texas in Austin.

AQR is divided into 7 units. Students are allowed up to 5 weeks to complete each unit, however, they are encouraged to move through the units at an accelerated pace. Each unit consists of videos, activities, and open-ended questions to help guide students through learning a variety of concepts that they will deal with outside of high school.

Throughout the course, students are given multiple opportunities to interact with one another. The instructor monitors those interactions on the discussion board and helps guide students to think critically and gather and use data available to them to make decisions. The course was designed so students can use their own skills and abilities to demonstrate learning. Any student-created project, report, or presentation can be completed in a mode that is suited to each student’s learning style. Students are encouraged to use movies, presentations, experiments, written reports, or any other way to display what they have learned.