Math Skills For The Workforce

You must be confident in your grammar, writing, and math skills to succeed in the workplace and come across as an attractive candidate and employee. This new basic-skills series targets the adult learner who wants to earn a degree, get a job, and succeed on that job. Every chapter focuses on a key skill, and is filled with practice questions and detailed answer explanations. LearningExpress is a leader in workplace readiness, with a series of award-winning online platforms like Job and Career Accelerator and Workforce Skills for 21st Century Success that help thousands nationwide find success every month.

Teach students the math skills they need to enter the workforce Plan a business-oriented curriculum for your students with this full-color, easy-to-read text that focuses on the skills students need on the job. Math for the World of Work covers critical skills like whole numbers, fractions, decimals, averages, estimating, measurements, and ratios. Each skill is introduced in a cross-curricular context that helps students learn about the business world. Lessons are reinforced with problem-solving activities, exercises, and review questions to give students plenty of practice and solidify their understanding of new skills. And features like Application Activities and Technology Connections ensure that students understand how to apply the skills they acquire. Lexile Level 860 Reading Level 3-4 Interest Level 6-12

Teach students the math skills they need to enter the workforce Plan a business-oriented curriculum for your students with this full-color, easy-to-read text that focuses on the skills students need on the job. Math for the World of Work covers critical skills like whole numbers, fractions, decimals, averages, estimating, measurements, and ratios. Each skill is introduced in a cross-curricular context that helps students learn about the business world. Lessons are reinforced with problem-solving activities, exercises, and review questions to give students plenty of practice and solidify their understanding of new skills. And features like Application Activities and Technology Connections ensure that students understand how to apply the skills they acquire. Lexile Level 860 Reading Level 3-4 Interest Level 6-12

This text is organized into 60 distinct Skill Builders meant to prepare students with the skills and competencies they will need to enter the workforce or to go into business careers. Students gain real-world math skills by working business problems and applications involving interest, discounts, payroll, depreciation, retail selling, and checking accounts..

Provides review and practice opportunities for using mathematical reasoning, critical thinking, and the problem-solving skills that are required in today's workplace.

Improving Mathematics at Work questions the mathematical knowledge and skills that matter in the twenty-first century world of work, and studies how the use of mathematics in the workplace is evolving in the rapidly-changing context of new technologies and globalisation. Through a series of case studies from the manufacturing and financial service sectors, the authors argue that there has been a radical shift in the type mathematical skills required for work – a shift not yet fully recognised by the formal education system, or by employers and managers. Examining how information technology has changed mathematical requirements, the idea of Techno-mathematical Literacies (TmL) is introduced to describe the emerging need to be fluent in the language of mathematical inputs and outputs to technologies and to interpret and communicate with these, rather than merely to be procedurally competent with calculations. The authors argue for careful analyses of workplace activities, looking beyond the conventional thinking about numeracy, which still dominates policy arguments about workplace mathematics. Throughout their study, the authors answer the following fundamental questions: What mathematical knowledge and skills matter for the world of work today? How does information technology change the necessary knowledge and the ways in which it is encountered? How can we develop these essential new skills in the workforce? With evidence of successful opportunities to learn with TmL that were co-designed and evaluated with employers and employees, this book provides suggestions for the development of TmL through the use of authentic learning activities, and interactive software design. Essential reading for trainers and managers in industry, teachers, researchers and lecturers of mathematics education, and stakeholders implementing evidence-based policy, this book maps the fundamental changes taking place in workplace mathematics.