What you'll learn

Know Your Numbers

This course teaches easy ways to nail basic numbers and gives an understanding of why this is important. It explores the relationships between numbers and how this underpins all quantitative research. It will develop an understanding of fractions, percentages, and ratios - and teach learners to use these to evaluate data and make comparisons.

This course will help learners to:

Understand the importance of numbers and how to use numbers in practical tasks.
Recognize, understand, and manipulate fractions and apply the seven interlocking rules for dealing with fractions to assemble and compare numbers.
Use tables to interpret and evaluate data, recognizing the value of numbers in rows and columns, and comparing fractions based on rows and columns to tell a story.
Turn decimals into percentages to analyze data effectively and draw comparisons.
Read different tables and pull useful data to make valuable interpretations.
Identify when and how to round numbers up or down and apply rules of rounding to simplify superfluous numbers.
Use ratios, percentages and fractions to describe any comparison between two amounts.

Language: English

Time to complete: 5 hours

Level: Beginner

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