Essential Trade Skills: Numeracy
About This Book
1 Reading a Measuring Tape - Imperial units: The longest marks indicate inches. Use the next longest lines for ½ inches, the third longest for ¼ inches, and so on. - Metric units. The longest marks indicate centimetres. Use the smaller marks to find the length in millimeters. - Stretch your measuring tape across the object. Find the nearest full measurement and add the length from the smaller markings. How to read the measuring tape Imperial 12 inches is the same as 1 foot. The number indicating
| Category | mathematics |
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| Subject | Mathematics, Mathematical foundations, Applied mathematics, Building skills and trades, Traditional trades, crafts and skills, Educational: Mathematics and numeracy |
| Year | 2023 |
| Authors | |
| Chapters | 29 |
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| License | Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Chapters
- 5 Understanding Fractions
- 8 Perimeter & Area
- 10 3D Shapes and Drawings
- 12 Mark, Measure, & Cut
- 13 Origin of a 30-60-90 Triangle
- 14 Origin of Pi
- 18 Angles
- 21 Pipe Sizing
- 22 Pythagorean Theorem
- 23 Activities
- 24 Wall Hanging Project Pipe: Cutting Angles
- 26 Principals of Dimensioning
- 27 Decimal Review
- 28 Fraction Review
- 30 Hole Layout
- 32 Wall Hanging Project Metal: Reading Blueprint & Hole Layout
- 33 Pressure
- 39 Measuring Conversions
- 43 Activities
- 44 Introduction to Horticulture
- 45 Activities
- 46 Wall Hanging Project Culinary & Horticulture: 5% Saline Solution, Halophytes
- 49 Watt’s Law
- 52 Understanding the Rule for Powers of Ten
- 53 Converting Between Metric Prefixes
- 54 Activities
- 56 Project Materials
- 57 Project Introduction
- 59 Activity – Hanging Your Shelf