Skills Tested: Silver Level

In addition to the skills required for a Bronze certificate, Silver certification requires competence in the following areas:

Applied Mathematics

• Solve problems that require one or two operations
• Multiply negative numbers
• Calculate averages, simple ratios, simple proportions, or rates using whole numbers and decimals
• Add commonly known fractions, decimals, or percentages (e.g., 1/2, .75, 25%)
• Add up to three fractions that share a common denominator
• Multiply a mixed number by a whole number or decimal
• Put the information in the right order before performing calculations

Locating Information

• Find several pieces of information in one or two graphics
• Understand how graphics are related to each other
• Summarize information from one or two straightforward graphics
• Identify trends shown in one or two straightforward graphics
• Compare information and trends shown in one or two straightforward graphics

Reading for Information

• Identify important details that may not be clearly stated
• Use the reading material to figure out the meaning of words that are not defined
• Apply instructions with several steps to a situation that is the same as the situation in the reading materials
• Choose what to do when changing conditions call for a different action (follow directions that include "if-then" statements)