Select a computer desk
Select a computer desk
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Activity Description
The learner will look at a flyer and choose a desk that will be big enough to hold a computer and a printer.
Materials (optional):
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Pen/pencil
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Scrap paper or calculator
Attached flyer
Word File:
SelectaComputerDesk_EI_C3.1.doc — Never downloaded
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PDF - Practitioner's Version:
SelectaComputerDesk_EI_C3.1.pdf — Never downloaded
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Google Form:
Goal Path:
Employment, Independence
Competency: C. Understand and Use Numbers
C3. Use measures
C3.1 Measure and make simple comparisons and calculations
Competency C: Understand and Use Numbers
Task Group C3: Use measures
Level: 1
At this level, learners: Measure and make simple comparisons and calculations
Performance Descriptors
The learner:
- Adds and subtracts whole number measurements
- Recognizes values in number and word format
- Recognizes simple, common shapes (e.g. circle, square, rectangle, triangle)
- Measures distance, length, width, height, weight, liquid volume, angles, and temperature
- Uses common measuring tools, such as rulers, scales, and thermometers
- Understands numerical order
- Makes simple estimates
- Begins to interpret integers (e.g. temperature, elevation)
- Chooses appropriate units of measurement (e.g. centimetres, metres, kilometres)
- Uses common standard units (e.g. metres, inches) and non-standard units (e.g. paces, cupfuls, scoops)
- Identifies and performs required operation
- Interprets and represents measures using whole numbers, decimals, and simple, common fractions (e.g. ½, ¼)
- Interprets and represents measures using symbols and abbreviations (e.g. inches as “, centimetres as cm, pounds as lbs, kilograms as kilos or kg)
- Follows apparent steps to reach solutions
- Rounds to the nearest whole unit (e.g. kilos)
- Uses strategies to check accuracy (e.g. estimating, using a calculator, repeating a calculation, using the reverse operation)
Task Descriptors
- Scope of task is limited
- Has a concrete and familiar context
- May require adding or subtracting measurements; operation is apparent
- May require the same operation to be performed more than once
- Requires up to a few steps to complete
- Has a set procedure
- Uses common units of measurement within the same system
- May involve one simple document, such as an office supply flyer
- Has a highly explicit purpose
- Uses whole numbers and/or simple common fractions or decimals
ESKARGO:
Embedded Skills, Knowledge and Attitudes Reference Guide for Ontario – C3.1
Date Added:
Monday, January 19, 2015
Updated date: Wednesday, August 18, 2021 - 12:07
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