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Series: Learning on Demand: Numeracy - The Basics - Video Tutorials

Authors: Workplace Education Manitoba (WEM)

This video tutorial offers an introduction to adding and subtracting decimals.

It begins with a review of columns and their names. For instance, to the right of the decimal, the columns are called tenths, hundredths, thousandths and so on.

The instructor also touches on borrowing and carrying when performing calculations.

Added: 2012-04-17

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Series: Learning on Demand: Numeracy - The Basics - Video Tutorials

Authors: Workplace Education Manitoba (WEM)

In this brief video tutorial, learners get a chance to practise their skills at adding and subtracting decimals.

The video includes three problems that illustrate a variety of challenges that may occur in calculations involving decimals. For instance, the solution to the third problem ends up being a negative number.

Added: 2012-04-17

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Series: Learning on Demand: Numeracy - The Basics - Video Tutorials

Authors: Workplace Education Manitoba (WEM)

This video provides an introduction to adding and subtracting fractions, beginning with a review of the terms numerator and denominator.

The instructor goes through the steps for solving three problems, including reducing the resulting fraction to its simplest form.

The three problems are straightforward because each of the fractions involved has the same denominator.

Added: 2012-03-07

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Series: Learning on Demand: Numeracy - The Basics - Video Tutorials

Authors: Workplace Education Manitoba (WEM)

This math video tutorial offers learners a chance to practise their skills at adding and subtracting fractions.

The video includes three fairly simply problems. In each example, all the fractions have the same denominator.

Added: 2012-03-07

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Series: Learning on Demand: Numeracy - The Basics - Video Tutorials

Authors: Workplace Education Manitoba (WEM)

In this math video tutorial, learners deal with more complicated operations involving fractions.

The instructor takes viewers through a number of problems involving fractions that do not have the same denominator. The learner must find a common denominator before going on to the next stage of the problem

Added: 2012-03-13

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Series: Learning on Demand: Numeracy - The Basics - Video Tutorials

Authors: Workplace Education Manitoba (WEM)

This video tutorial gives learners a chance to practise doing math problems involving fractions that don’t have the same denominator.

The tutorial includes three problems. Learners can pause the video while they work out the problems on their own, then restart it to see the instructor’s detailed solutions.

Each problem requires that the learner find a common denominator before completing the calculations.

Added: 2012-03-13

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Series: Learning on Demand: Numeracy - The Basics - Video Tutorials

Authors: Workplace Education Manitoba (WEM)

This video tutorial uses a variety of examples to introduce the concept of averages.

The instructor explains that finding the average, or mean, involves taking a total value and dividing it by the number of units represented by that total. For example, if three students score 90, 85 and 80 respectively on a test, the total value of their marks is 255. To find the average mark, it is necessary to divide the total of 255 by three, the number of students, which shows they had an average score of 85.

Added: 2012-08-16

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Series: Learning on Demand: Numeracy - The Basics - Video Tutorials

Authors: Workplace Education Manitoba (WEM)

This video tutorial gives learners a chance to reinforce their knowledge of averages by trying three progressively more challenging problems. They are asked to pause the video to work out the problems on their own, then restart it to see the instructor’s solutions.

The first problem simply requires the learner to find the average of three numbers. In the third problem, the learner is given the average of three numbers, along with two of those three numbers, and must find the third number.

Added: 2012-08-16

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Series: Learning on Demand: Numeracy - The Basics - Video Tutorials

Authors: Workplace Education Manitoba (WEM)

This brief video offers a refresher course on the relationship between decimals, fractions and percent.

The instructor explains how to convert a decimal to a fraction or a percent. He takes the learner through several examples, including one requiring long division.

Added: 2012-05-25

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Series: Learning on Demand: Numeracy - The Basics - Video Tutorials

Authors: Workplace Education Manitoba (WEM)

This video offers an opportunity to practise calculations involving decimals, fractions and percentages.

It presents three problems, beginning with a simple one and progressing to more complex ones. For the second and third problems, the learner must also apply the order of operations.

The problems appear on a computer screen, with the narrator giving step-by-step instructions on how to solve them.

Added: 2012-05-25

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