Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Basic Science: Understanding Numbers
Basic Science: Understanding numbers, is a practical hands-on course that introduced the use of numbers to describe and understand the natural world. Examples and case studies include the size of the Greenland ice sheet, the number of molecules in a raindrop, and the latest set of numbers about climate change presented in the media. Learners discovered how scientists use numbers to describe and measure the natural world when those numbers are too big or too small to imagine.
4 weeks, 3 hours per week
Dave Hall
University Secretary
The Open University
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Calculate and use a scientific calculator.
- Calculate volumes, areas and density.
- Apply numbers to understand how simple models help understand scientific problems, such as ice melting and climate change.
- Demonstrate and use numbers to test scientific hypotheses.
- Apply SI units to length, time, mass temperature used for science.
- Interpret numbers written in scientific notation to understand the natural world.
- Develop skills to round numbers written in scientific notation.
- Calculate and use fractions, percentages and averages for science.
- Evaluate positive and negative numbers.
- Apply, create and evaluate graphs to understand issues in science.
Syllabus
The course is divided into 4 weeks:
- Why science needs numbers including writing and presenting very large and very small numbers for science
- Using numbers for science including calculating areas, volumes and density
- Important concepts in numbers for science including rounding, fractions, percentages and negative numbers
- Communicating numbers for science including averages, drawing and interpreting graphs, correlation, causation and coincidence
Issued on 27th December 2016
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