Project Overview

CORD was selected by Michigan's Department of Career Development (MDCD) to work with mathematics and automotive career and technical education teachers across the state to integrate higher levels of mathematics into the automotive technology career cluster.

Their role was to identify mathematics concepts taught in automotive courses and to connect the concepts with the Michigan Mathematics Curriculum Standards, the Michigan Education Assessment Program (MEAP) High School Test in Mathematics, the American College Testing (ACT) WorkKeys Mathematics Assessment Strands, and the National Automotive Technicians Education Foundation (NATEF) Applied Mathematics Skills.

A resource bank of integrated automotive and mathematic work examples was developed and is contained on this CD-ROM. These work examples can be implemented in both the automotive and the mathematic classrooms.

Automotive Instructors can access the work examples by Integrated Automotive/Mathematic Work-Examples link. The eight NATEF categories are listed and each category is a link to specific work examples correlated to that area.

Mathematics Instructors can access the work examples by math level. By clicking on the ACT WorkKeys Mathematic Assessment Strands link, a chart will appear indicating all five levels of the ACT WorkKeys as well the characteristics of the problem and skills involved for each level. You will notice that the level number is highlighted and underlined. These are links that when selected will display all of the work examples for that particular ACT level by NATEF area.

Project Coordinator:
   Betsy J. Urschel
   Senior Associate, CORD
   burschel@cord.org

This project was carried out from Spring 2001 through Spring 2003.