Four themes include
Numbers and number sense: fractions, decimals, percentages, ratios rate and proportions. Workplace examples include:

1. calculations of number of barrels of bitumen per year given barrels per day;
2. number of people needed to do a specific task if one person can do the task in a specified number of hours.

Measurement/Geometry covers imperial and metric measurement and conversions between the two and geometry. Workplace examples include:

1. metric to imperial conversions
2. division of a pipe into two pieces of specified length, how much is left over after the cutting;
3. Length of conduit needed given angles of the path it will travel

A little graphing and stats

Introduction to algebra, solving equations, transpositions of formulas and signed fractions and decimals. Workplace examples include:

1. Reading graphs to assess the number of barrels of oil produced in a certain year
2. Reading projected increases in manpower needed.

Sample math problem from Number Sense

Numbers-Percentage application
Workplace examples include:

1. Finding the R value of insulation given the thickness of the insulating material and the thermal conductively of material
2. Calculating total weight of truck and overburden