Brown and Mohr mentioned that reading, writing, and math skills are essential in any kind of workplace. In the construction industry, the capacity for quantitative thought and expression is essential in the workplace since everyone working in the construction management (CM) domain use construction-related mathemathics in many aspects of their work every day. Construction-related math includes simple measurements, unit conversions, calculations with decimals and fractions, scale factor, right triangle trigonometry, and calculations for lengths, areas, and volumes. Even though students have been taught these math concepts since 3rd grade, surprisingly a considerable number of CM students in higher education systems do not perform well on them.
展开▼
