operant
(noun)
A class of behavior that produces consequences by operating (i.e., acting) upon the environment.
(noun)
A class of behavior that produces consequences by acting upon the environment.
Examples of operant in the following topics:
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Operating Margin
- The operating margin is a ratio that determines how much money a company is actually making in profit and equals operating income divided by revenue.
- It is found by dividing operating income by revenue, where operating income is revenue minus operating expenses .
- However, the operating margin is not a perfect measurement.
- Furthermore, the operating margin is simply revenue.
- The operating margin is found by dividing net operating income by total revenue.
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Types of Operations: Evolving operations through the K, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, & 5th Grade
- We have now been introduced to all of the operations of the elementary curriculum:
- What types of operations are expected of the 5th Grade curriculum?
- Do the same operation images, analogies, and metaphors still apply from your previous realizations?
- Why learn these types of operations now?
- What number sets are we operating on in the elementary curriculum up to and including 5th grade?
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Building a Landscape
- Using key questions to help build out the evolving landscape of the elementary operations curriculum.
- What types of operations are expected of the 4th grade curriculum?
- Why learn these types of operations now?
- Are there numbers that are being introduced that provoke the introduction of these operations that is also in the curriculum of 4th grade?
- What human activities necessitated the creation of these operations?
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Types of Operations: Evolving from K, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Grade
- We now have been introduced to all of the operations of the elementary curriculum:
- What types of operations are expected of the 3rd Grade curriculum?
- Do the same operation images, analogies, and metaphors still apply from your previous realizations?
- Why learn these types of operations now?
- What number sets are we operating on in the elementary curriculum up to and including 3rd grade?
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Introduction
- understand three of the most important operations management practices: Total Quality Management, Supply Chain Management, and Just-in-Time/Lean Operations
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Activities of the Business: Financing, Investing, and Operating
- Activities of the business include operating activities and non-operating activities such as investing activities, and financing activities.
- Under GAAP, operating cash flows include:
- In addition to operating activities businesses engage in non-operating activities.
- Non-operating activities are not related to the day-to-day, ongoing operations of a business.
- As with operating activities GAAP principles dictate how non-operating items are classified on the statement of cash flows.
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Entailment Discussion for 4th Grade Operations
- Entailments discussion prompts to refine and adapt your realization of operations on elementary number sets:
- How do factors and multiples help to show the inverse operational relationship between multiplication and division?
- Is that relationship still true regardless of what number sets these operations are operating on?
- Are there specific numbers where the operations are easily to calculate with?
- For example, are there certain contexts when fractions representations are easier to operate with than decimal fractions?
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Operating Expenses, Non-Operating Expenses, and Net Income
- Operating expenses and non operating expenses are deducted from revenue to yield net income.
- An operating expense is the ongoing cost of running a product, business, or system.
- Paper, toner, power, and maintenance costs represent operating expenses.
- In business, operating expenses are day-to-day expenses such as sales and administration.
- Non operating expenses include loan payments, depreciation, and income taxes.
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Building a Landscape
- The following is an itemized list of questions that will help you build the landscape for the Kindergarten curriculum of operations:
- Why learn these types of operations now?
- Are there number sets that students are learning that provokes the introduction of these operations?
- What human activities necessitated the creation of these operations?
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Building a Landscape
- Using key questions to help build out the evolving landscape of the elementary operations curriculum.
- The following is a helpful list of questions that area designed to empower you to build the landscape for the Kindergarten through the third grade curriculum of operations:
- What types of operations are expected of the 3rd grade curriculum?
- Why learn these types of operations now?