Calculate Flower Bed Materials and Cost
Calculate Flower Bed Materials and Cost
Calculate materials and costs for creating a flower bed.
- Pen/pencil and paper and/or digital device
- Calculator or digital device with calculator function
A2. Interpret documents
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
C1. Manage money
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
C3. Use measures
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