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Thursday, December 18, 2008

Competency #2 Quantitative Skills


Competency #2 Quantitative Skills
Mathematical reasoning is helpful in understanding what a person is dealing with and what level of education is needed to understand and deal with everyday problems.
· Limited Education, What a person is dealing with and what level of education is needed to understand and deal with everyday problems. Like how many quarts of milk are needed for the week
· Higher education, for how many board feet of cedar is needed to fill totem pole orders from 16 shops
This process also involves “Quantitative Literacy” for one needs to know how to interpret the mathematical symbols of formulas and apply them to graphs and tables. The written and spoken language of math is practically worthless unless a person can interpret and apply them to a format that is easily recognized by the un-educated public, such as a graph or table. An example would be the shop owner looking at a bar graph and saying: I have 144 totem poles in my inventory with six on the store shelf to be sold. Yes, Quantitative Skills are a vital element in the world.

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