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Plastics: Math for Extruders: Program 1
- Course Format
Advantage™- Continuing Education Units (CEUs)
- 0.0
- Training Time ?
- 71 to 142 minutes
- Language(s)
- English
- Browsers Supported
- IE Desktop
- Required Plugins
- MasteryNet Player
- Closed Captioning
- No
- Lesson Interactions
- 63
- Quiz Questions
- 41
- Product ID
- arasmfe1
- Interactive Producer
- A. Routsis
- Original Content Producer
- A. Routsis Associates
Overview
This training is the first of a two-part program. The course will help anyone within the extrusion industry looking to expand or fine-tune his or her math skills.
Topics start with the basics of using whole Numbers, negative numbers, and decimals; then continues on to refining the use of a calculator. Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division are reviewed before learning the benefits of rounding numbers and using significant figures. Finally, formulas, equations, and order of operations is defined.
- Rich multimedia presentation with interactions and quiz
- Print certificate and wallet card
- You have 60 days to complete the course
Audience
All persons within the extrusion industry.
Topics
The course presents the following topical areas:
- Introduction
- Whole Numbers and Negative Numbers
- Decimals
- Using a Calculator
- Addition
- Subtraction
- Multiplication
- Division
- Rounding Numbers
- Significant Figures
- Formulas, Equations & the Order of Operations
- Conclusion
Intended Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course you will be better prepared to:
- Identify whole numbers.
- Define how decimals are represented and used worldwide.
- Associate the buttons of calculators with their respective functions.
- Perform addition.
- Perform subtraction.
- Perform multiplication.
- Perform division.
- Choose procedures for rounding numbers to appropriate place value.
- Identify the number of digits within a calculation that have certainty.
- Properly perform complex calculations.
