This course is designed to enable students to more fully appreciate the truth of Galileo’s claim that “Mathematics is the alphabet by which God has written the universe.” In addition to stressing the beauty of math in the created order, the course also establishes math’s practical relevance in everyday living, even for those who do not work or intend to work in a scientific or technological field. This course is for students who need a mathematics course to satisfy the general education requirement in mathematics. The course will include an introduction to inductive and deductive reasoning, the nature of sets and their applications, the nature of logic and its practical uses, numeration systems old and new (their types and uses), the application of numbers in describing lengths and distances called measurement, algebra as the “universal arithmetic” and, finally proportions and shapes, commonly known as geometry.