Math for Automotive Technicians, 2nd Edition

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• Learn essential math skills through real-world automotive service and repair scenarios.
• Apply measurements, formulas, conversions, and calculations to actual vehicle procedures.
• Build technician-ready problem-solving skills with 100+ automotive case studies.

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Math for Automotive Techniciansis designed to help students learn and apply basic math skills, measurements, and additional math topics directly applicable to automotive technology. The first part of the text provides 12 lessons that develop a mastery of basic math skills in the context of automotive service. Coverage includes whole number operations, decimals, greater than/less than, tape measure fractions, conversion, graphs and tables, formulas, measurement, and comparing to specifications. The second part consists of 108 case studies that apply and extend the basic math skills with actual vehicle procedures, data, and specifications. For ease of integration with curricula based on the ASE Education Foundation Task List, the case studies are grouped into automotive service areas, such as chassis systems, engine mechanical, electrical, etc. This new edition includes new units on Thermal Systems and High-Voltage and Electric Vehicles, with new case studies and a new career profile. Answers to odd-numbered practice problems are listed in the back of the text.

Units begin with Career Profiles based on interviews with practicing automotive technicians who explain how and why math is important to their work.
Case Study practice problems are actual vehicle procedures, data, and specifications, relevant to service items and diagnostic procedures from the ASE Task Lists.
Word problems use realistic automotive examples and reference Concern-Cause-Correction language, integrating a diagnostic problem-solving model with mathematical problem-solving.
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Unit 1—Math Skill Lessons

Unit 2—Around the Shop

Unit 3—Vehicle Maintenance

Unit 4—Chassis

Unit 5—Engine Mechanical

Unit 6—Electrical

Unit 7—Engine Performance

Unit 8—Driveline

Unit 9—Thermal Systems

Unit 10—High Voltage & Electric Vehicles

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About the Author

Luke D. Thompson, M.Ed.

is author of G-W's innovative, digital Hands-On Maintenance and Light Repair product and Math for Automotive Technicians. Since early 2018, Luke has been a technical training instructor for Tesla, Inc. Previously, Luke taught for over a decade as a secondary Auto Technology teacher in Michigan and Washington. Throughout his teaching career, he achieved MLR accreditation for the schools where he taught. Luke has also served as an Evaluation Team Leader (ETL) for ASE and received the ASE Industry Education Alliance "Outstanding Instructor Award." Luke earned his Associates degree in Automotive Technology from Henry Ford Community College, his Bachelor's Degree in secondary CTE from Wayne State, and his Masters Degree in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Washington. Luke also holds various ASE certificates including Master Certified Automobile Technician and Hybrid/Electric Vehicle Specialist. Prior to his teaching career, Luke worked as a Prototype Technician at Ford Motor Company's Research & Development Division in Dearborn, Michigan.

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