Part 6: How do you read a CNA result? · Module 12
Don't panic at the algebra
Reading CNA Notation
Most people meet their first CNA result and feel their stomach drop. The screen shows something like this, and it looks like algebra homework you thought you had escaped:
Take a breath. There is nothing to fear here, because a CNA formula is just a sentence wearing a lab coat. Once you know the three words it is built from, you can read any result in the course, and any result your own data ever produces.
What You Will Be Able to Do
- Read a CNA formula out loud as an ordinary sentence.
- Translate the symbols * + and the arrow into plain words.
- Turn any solution formula into something a colleague would understand.
In This Module
- The whole vocabulary, in three words
- Read it like a sentence
- One more, with two pathways