Calculate Flower Bed Materials and Cost

Competency A: Find and Use Information
Task Group A2: Interpret documents
Level: 1

At this level, learners: Interpret very simple documents to locate specific details

Performance Descriptors

The learner:

• Scans to locate specific details
• Interprets brief text and common symbols
• Locates specific details in simple documents, such as labels and signs
• Identifies how lists are organized (e.g. sequential, chronological, alphabetical)
• Requires support to identify sources and to evaluate and integrate information

Task Descriptors

• Scope of task is limited
• Involves one document
• Contains brief text, symbols, or both
• Uses a very simple format
• Contains common, familiar vocabulary
• Has a familiar context
• Addresses concrete, day-to-day topics
• Has a highly explicit purpose
• Documents at this level may contain up to one paragraph of text

Examples:

• Signs
• Labels
• Lists
• Coupons
• Simple forms

ESKARGO:
Embedded Skills, Knowledge and Attitudes Reference Guide for Ontario – A2.1

Competency C: Understand and Use Numbers
Task Group C1: Manage money
Level: 2
At this level, learners: Make low-level inferences to calculate costs and expenses that may include rates such as taxes and discounts

Performance Descriptors

The learner:

• Calculates using numbers expressed as whole numbers, fractions, decimals, percentages, and integers
• Calculates percentages
• Interprets and applies rates (e.g. $/kg, $/l)
• Chooses and performs required operation(s); may make inferences to identify required operation(s)
• Selects appropriate steps to reach solutions
• Represents costs and rates using monetary symbols, decimals, and percentages
• Makes simple estimates
• Interprets, represents, and converts amounts using whole numbers, decimals, percentages, ratios, and simple, common fractions (e.g. ½, ¼)
• Uses strategies to check accuracy (e.g. estimating, using a calculator, repeating a calculation, using the reverse operation)

Task Descriptors

• Scope of task is clearly defined
• May include unfamiliar elements (e.g. context, content)
• Requires the use of rates, or requires two or more operations, where operations are easily inferred
• Requires up to a few steps to complete
• May be completed in more than one way
• May involve one document, such as a table
• May require converting between whole numbers, fractions, decimals, ratios, and percentages

ESKARGO:
Embedded Skills, Knowledge and Attitudes Reference Guide for Ontario – C1.2

Competency C: Understand and Use Numbers
Task Group C3: Use measures
Level: 3
At this level, learners: Use measures to make multi-step calculations; use specialized measuring tools

Performance Descriptors
The learner:

• Calculates using numbers expressed as whole numbers, fractions, decimals, percentages, and integers
• Calculates the radius, diameter, and circumference of circles
• Understands and uses properties of angles and triangles to solve problems
• Understands and uses formulas for finding the perimeter, area, and volume of non-rectangular, composite shapes
• Manages unfamiliar elements (e.g. context, content) to complete tasks
• Makes estimates involving many factors where precision is required
• Interprets and represents measurements taken with specialized tools (e.g. callipers, multimeters)
• Chooses and performs required operations; makes inferences to identify required operations
• Selects appropriate steps to solutions from among options
• Identifies a variety of ways to complete tasks
• Interprets, represents, and converts measures using whole numbers, decimals, percentages, ratios, and fractions
• Organizes and displays numerical information (e.g. graphs, tables)
• Uses strategies to check accuracy (e.g. estimating, using a calculator, repeating a calculation, using the reverse operation)

Task Descriptors

• Scope of task may not be clearly defined
• May include unfamiliar elements (e.g. context, content)
• Requires multi-step calculations where one step builds on the previous step
• Requires the use of rates or common formulas or both
• May require converting measurements to make calculations
• May involve documents (e.g. rate tables, scale drawings)
• May require converting between whole numbers, decimals, fractions, ratios, and percentages
• May require converting between measurement systems or between units in one system

ESKARGO:
Embedded Skills, Knowledge and Attitudes Reference Guide for Ontario – C3.3