VU22395 - Work with a range of numbers and money in familiar and routine situations

Unit code: VU22395 | Study level: TAFE
Nominal hours:
30
Location
Footscray Nicholson
St Albans
Sunshine
Werribee
Prerequisites
N/A
Overview
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Overview

This unit describes the skills and knowledge to develop numeracy skills related to interpreting, using and calculating with a range of whole numbers, decimals, routine fractions and percentages and money in familiar and routine situations in their personal, public, work or education and training lives. Learners will communicate these mathematical ideas using a combination of written and spoken responses.

Assessment

For Melbourne campuses

Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce and extend knowledge and skill competence within set and controlled parameters in accordance with each unit’s learning outcomes and performance criteria requirements, including the setting of work based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines.

Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills:

  • communication and literacy skills to read and interpret relevant, familiar texts and diagrams.

Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:

  • signs/prints/symbols represent meaning in texts and materials;
  • place value to read, write and interpret decimals and large whole numbers;
  • decimals, common fractions and percentages and their common equivalent forms;
  • informal and formal language of numbers to compare and interpret decimals, common fractions and percentages, and;
  • techniques used to make initial estimations and check results of calculations in relation to the context.

Required reading

The qualified trainer and assessor will provide teaching and learning materials as required in the form of workbooks produced by Victoria University and/or via the Victoria University e-learning system.

As part of a course

This unit is studied as part of the following course(s):

Certificate I in General Education for Adults
22472VIC | Certificate i | Duration:

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