you can use mathematical information, operations, and quantitative analyses to solve problems and inform decision-making
competency 3: our design team, with support from our subject matter expert, researched solutions to our client's problem - that learners were either dropping or failing an intermediate Excel course.  research on current solutions and cost of custom solutions returned a plethora of information to categorize and analyze.  analyses of the collected information pointed to the solution which would ultimately become our module.