The Circle of Learning

Examples of applying this learning outcome outside the learning environment:
Family	Community	Work
Make a scale drawing of the main floor of your home. Use the scale of either inch to represent 1 foot, or 5 centimetres to represent one metre.	Obtain take-out menus from different restaurants – or look them up in the yellow pages of a telephone book. Compare what it would cost to buy the same meals for your family at each restaurant. Which restaurant would be the least expensive? Which would be the most expensive?	Figure out how much your company would spend per year if it hired two people at the lowest end of its salary scale. How much would it spend to hire just one person at the highest end of this scale? Which option would save the company money?

Learners will understand and use numeracy for complex daily living tasks.

Identify when and how mathematics and numeracy are used in daily life.
Apply percentages in practical math problems.
Convert metric measurements to imperial measurements, and vice versa, as appropriate (e.g., one teaspoon is five millilitres of liquid).
Make simple conversions between metric units of measurement (e.g., 10 centimetres is the same as 100 millimetres).
Convert Celsius temperatures to Fahrenheit temperatures, and vice versa, as appropriate. [See instruction tip #8.]
Demonstrate knowledge of latitude and longitude.
Apply numerical calculation skills to become a critical consumer of goods.
Apply time management skills to schedule daily activities and other events.
Apply numerical data to argue a point in a discussion.

Examples of applying this learning outcome outside the learning environment:
Family	Community	Work
Update family recipes for your children by converting them from imperial to metric measurements.	Do comparative shopping at two local grocery stores. Identify which store has lower prices on the most common groceries you buy.	Read the charts and tables reporting injuries at work. Use this information to discuss better occupational health and safety regulations with your co-workers, and to ask for better health care packages in the next union contract.