Learning math, separated from how it is used in everyday life, is like learning a foreign language. Way too many prospective trainees come to us and fail to reach the minimum required score on the WorkKeys assessments in math. Cincinnati Manufacturing Certificates provides short term tutoring to prepare people to take the math assessment but often its not enough.
The math of dollars and cents, of baseball and football statistics, or cookbook menus makes more sense as places for adults to tackle math problems than numbers divorced from the real world. The problems found on the shop floor can provide a strong grounding for trainees but only if they have that factory experience. Improvements in math teaching at all levels will serve our trainees well but also the wider workforce. Technical manufacturing training will be held back as long as sub-par math instruction remains prevalent.
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