KREQ130 Numeracy Skills 3 Credits
This course is designed for students in the humanities. It aims at developing students’ ability to apply mathematical thinking in order to solve a range of problems in everyday situation. Building on a sound mastery of numeracy, emphasis is on selected topics from basic Arithmetic, Algebra, Rates (fractions, proportions and percentages); Approximating Numbers (rounding up of numbers and significant numbers); Mathematical Reasoning, (inductive and deductive reasoning); Statements; Truth Tables; Necessary and Sufficient Conditions; Basic Set Theory; Nature and Uses of Statistics; Sources of Data; Data Types and Measurement Scales; Methods of Data Manipulation (aggregation & interpretation); Basic Probability with Illustrations from various disciplines; Establishing Relationships between Variables and the use of Basic Computer Packages such as Excel in analysing data.
A certificate is awarded upon course completion.
QTS Numeracy test is probably the most important topic for the mental arithmetic part of the QTS Numeracy test, percentage, fraction and decimal conversions. The methods that I present in this video are based on my personal experiances tutoring for QTS Numeracy; the methods may be very different to what you have been shown previously and what you have seen in other tutorial videos - the methods presented are presented in such a way to minimise the thinking and calculating time required for the mental arithmetic part of the QTS Numeracy test and to minimise the risk of making silly mistakes.
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