The following is an assignment I gave to my students. I would like you to record the answers to the following questions and then to write a well-constructed paragraph on what you learned. Briefly explain your job. What skills in math are important to your job. Please give examples of when you use these skills.
Problem solving is a life-skill.
My Dad works for Nestle Ice Cream. His job title is a Distributor. His job is the Sale and Service of Nestle and Haagan Daz Ice Cream. He uses skills in this job such as multiplication, percentage, addition, subtraction, and division. He uses these skills taking a case cost for a product, dividing case quantity into price, multiplying profit percentage into cost for retail price, subtracting retail price from cost to get net profit per unit.