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AAT 1020 - Technology Foundations


Clock Hours: 30

Delivery Mode
on-ground

Industry Certifications National Career Readiness Certification 

Course Description:
Technology Foundations is designed to enhance and/or develop reading and mathematical skills that serve as a foundation for business and employment environments and are necessary for careers in the technical workforce. Students will develop problem-solving skills and will be encouraged to become independent thinkers.  

 

Student Learning Outcomes:
Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of: 

 

Reading for information: 

  • Strengthen skills in vocabulary, spelling and visual comprehension. 

  • Identify sentence parts; such as: nouns and verbs 

  • Follow directions 

  • Strengthen skills in finding information/details 

  • Develop skills with information in paragraphs 

  • Develop skills in reading for information, interpreting information, gaining meaning from context and complex information 

Applied Mathematics: 

  • Strengthen skills in basic math 

  • Strengthen skills in word problems and problem solving  

  • Working with money, time and quantity 

  • Measurements 

  • Rounding/ estimating/ averaging 

  • Positive and negative numbers 

  • Percentages, proportions and ratios 

  • Perimeter/area 

 

Reading Graphics 

  • Introduction to graphs 

  • Pie charts, bar graphs, line graphs, tables and forms, maps and plans, diagrams and gauges 

  • Interpreting complex graphics 

  • Finding details and extracting data