Math Skills Worksheet

This tool was designed to help math instructors and their postsecondary institution(s) address gaps in the math curriculum. It is best used when both parties can walk through the worksheet together. Please note, most of these math skills are considered developmental (or remedial) by most postsecondary institutions.

What math skills are you currently teaching? / What math skills are you teaching for the HSD/GED? / What math skills are taught in the highest level of dev. math at your local PSE institution? / What are College Level Skills at your local PSE institution?
Number Operations and Number Sense
Standard notation and place value
Whole number operations
Rounding
Averaging
Basic Calculator use
Exponents (whole numbers)
Square Roots
Order of operations
Fraction operations
Prime factorization
Simplifying fractions
Reciprocals
Order of operations (fractions)
Place value-decimals
Decimal Operations
Rounding decimal numbers
Conversion fractions-decimals
Order of operations (decimals)
Ratio and proportion
Unit pricing
Percentages
Percent of increases/decreases
Percent applications
Simple interest
Compound interest
Denominate numbers
Measurement and Geometry
Metric conversion
American measure conversions
Conversions from metric/American
Perimeter/circumference
Area
Volume
Surface area
Pythagorean theorem
Geometric applications
Arithmetic associative properties
Arithmetic commutative properties
Arithmetic distributive properties
Slope
X-Y intercepts
Point-slope formula
Slope-intercept form
Data Analysis, Statistics, and probability
Tables
Bar graphs
Circle graphs
Line graphs
Mean, median, mode
Algebra
Signed numbers
Exponents
Order of operations (signed numbers)
Scientific calculator use
Inequality symbols
Additive inverse
Definition of a variable
Exponents (positive integers)
Simplifying square roots
Evaluation algebraic expressions
Simplifying algebraic expressions
Distributive property in algebra
Translation of verbal expression
Roster method of sets
Set builder notation of sets
Equations (x+a=b)
Equations (ax=b)
Equations (ax+b=c)
Equations (ax+b=cx+d)
Equations of grouping symbols
Equations of fractional coefficients
Translations of verbal sentences
Application: value mixture
Application: uniform motion
Application: coin
Application: geometry
Linear inequalities
Graph of linear inequalities
Compound inequalities
Absolute value equations
Absolute value inequalities
Lines and angles
Intersecting lines
Angles of a triangle
Identifying points on a plane
Order-pairs
Evaluating functions
Graph of an equation y=mx+b
Graph of an equation ax+by=c
Find equation of line from graph
Equation/parallel/perpendicular
Solve linear system by graphing
Solve linear system by substitution
Solve linear system by addition
Solve linear system by determinants
Graph system of linear inequalities
Multiplication of monomials
Division of monomials
Negative exponents
Scientific notation
Evaluate polynomial functions
Multiplication of two binomials
Special products (binomial)
Division of polynomials
Synthetic division
Common factors
Factoring by group
Factoring trinomials (x²+bx+c)
Factoring trinomials (ax²+bx+c)
Factoring difference of two squares
Factoring cubes
Simplifying algebraic fractions
Multiplying/dividing algebraic fractions
Finding LCM algebraic fractions
Add/subtract algebraic fractions
Complex fractions (algebraic)
Rational equations
Similar triangles
Literal equations
Application: ration and proportion
Application: work
Application: uniform motion
Direct variation
Inverse variation
Joint variation
Rational exponents
Conversion radicals-rational exponents
Operations on radicals
Radical equations
Quadratic equations - factoring
Quadratic equations - square roots
Quadratic equations - complete square
Quadratic equations - formula