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Essential Skills and the Northern Oil and Gas Workforce Final Report and Resource Guide
To teach this we instruct that all practical percentage
applications have three basic parts:
•Actual amount
•Base (whole or original amount)
•Rate (%)
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Solution
And the idea that: Actual amount = Rate(%) x Base (whole
amount)
= 1.5% x18 feet = 27/100 = .27 feet
Measurement conversion = .27 feet x12 in /1 ft
= 3.24 inches
Assessment
�Interview and math tasks
�Online assessment now
available
Workshops
�Numbers and Number Sense
�Numbers, Measurement,
Data Analysis, and Algebra
�Small groups (8)
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Workshops
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Working Exercise from Number and
Number Sense Theme
Give 3 minutes
To teach this we instruct that all practical
percentage applications have three basic parts:
• Actual amount
• Base (whole or original amount)
• Rate (%)
And the idea that:
Actual amount =
Rate(%) * Base (whole amount) =
1.5% * 18 feet = 27/100 = .27 ft
Measurement conversion =
.27 feet * 12 in /1 = 3.24 inches
(cover this in Measurement theme)
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SAM Participant
Comments
�“I will use these skills to pass my apprenticeship exam after
New Years. There are a lot of exam questions with math in
them.” Syncrude participant
�“Just about every trade that I want to get into requires
all kinds of math. This was an excellent course to refresh
my math skills.” Shapotowak participant
�“I am a planner at Aurora and am now more
confident with budgets, graphs and spreadsheets.”
Syncrude participant
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