Financial and Workplace Mathematics 110

Unit 1: Geometry

Solving right-triangle and scale problems, and modelling and drawing 3-D objects, their views, and exploded and scale diagrams — the trades and drafting side of workplace geometry.

• Solving a single right triangle
• Chaining two and three right triangles
• Angles of elevation and depression

• Working with scale drawings
• Scale, area, and material estimates

• Modelling and drawing 3-D objects and their views
• Isometric drawings of 3-D objects
• Exploded views and scale diagrams
• Describing component parts for assembly

Unit 2: Number

Numerical-reasoning puzzles and games, and the core consumer-finance decisions: renting, leasing and buying; analyzing an investment portfolio; and personal budgets.

• Finding a strategy in a number game
• Explaining why a strategy works

• Comparing the costs of renting, leasing, and buying
• Making the rent-lease-buy decision

• Analyzing an investment portfolio
• Comparing investments and weighing risk
• Building a personal budget
• Adjusting a budget to reach a goal

Unit 3: Algebra

Applying and manipulating workplace formulas (slope and rate of change, the Rule of 72, finance charges, the Pythagorean theorem and trigonometry), understanding slope as rise over run and as rate of change, and solving problems with proportional reasoning and unit analysis.

• Slope and rate-of-change formulas
• The Rule of 72
• Finance charges
• Pythagorean and trigonometric formulas

• Slope as rise over run
• Slope as a rate of change
• Solving problems with slope on cost graphs
• Proportional reasoning and unit analysis
• Unit pricing and best-buy decisions

Unit 4: Statistics

Creating and interpreting the four common data graphs — bar graphs, histograms, line graphs, and circle graphs — to present and read real information.

• Creating and interpreting bar graphs
• Creating and interpreting histograms

• Creating and interpreting line graphs
• Creating and interpreting circle graphs