meeting the numeracy challenge
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Meeting the Numeracy Challenge. Valerie Seabright (QUB) Terry Maguire (NALA). Ice Breaker (Making Connections). - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Meeting the Numeracy Challenge
Meeting the Numeracy Challenge
Valerie Seabright (QUB)Terry Maguire (NALA)
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Ice Breaker (Making Connections)Ice Breaker (Making Connections)
Individuals are given a card with a number/fraction/decimal they are asked to connect with someone with an equivalent number e.g. ½ = 3/6 Then they have to elicit two number facts from the connected person(s) to share with the rest of the group as an ‘introduction’ exercise.
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Literacy PracticeLiteracy Practice
• A holistic view is taken of literacy practice literacy, numeracy ICT subjects/aspects of practice.
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• International survey results
• Employment trends
• ‘The forgetting effect’
Is Numeracy Important?Is Numeracy Important?
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Numeracy development lags behind literacy development
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Key DevelopmentsKey Developments
• Crowther
• Cockcroft
• IALS
• ALLS
• PISA
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'the knowledge and skills required to apply arithmetic operations either alone or sequentially to numbers embedded in printed
material'
'the knowledge and skills required to apply arithmetic operations either alone or sequentially to numbers embedded in printed
material'
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'the critical awareness that builds bridges between mathematics and the real world in all its diversity'.
(Johnston, 1994, p. 34).
'the critical awareness that builds bridges between mathematics and the real world in all its diversity'.
(Johnston, 1994, p. 34).
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Numerate Behaviour Involves:
Managing a situation or solving a problem in real contextEveryday life
WorkSocietal
Future learning
by responding toIdentifying or locating
Acting uponInterpreting
Communicating about
Information about mathematical ideasQuantity and numberDimension and shape
Pattern and relationshipsData and chance
Change
That is represented in a range of waysObjects and pictures
Numbers and symbolsFormulae
Diagrams and mapsGraphsTablesTexts
and requires activation of a range ofenabing knowledge, behaviours and processes
mathematcal knowledge and understandingmathematical problem solving skillsliteracy skills, beliefs and attitudes.
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Adult Numeracy Concept Sophistication
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Formative Mathematical Integrative
IALS ALL
Framework of Numeracy Concept Sophistication
Increasing levels of numeracy concept sophistication
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Activity on Continuum(Handout with 3 frameworks)
Activity on Continuum(Handout with 3 frameworks)
Ask individuals/small groups to consider
placing their own view of numeracy on the continuum.
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Activity on Continuum(Handout with 3 frameworks)
Activity on Continuum(Handout with 3 frameworks)
Ask individuals/small groups to consider
placing their own view of numeracy on the continuum.
Place their country on the continuum(in theory i.e. what is described in policy documents)
In practice i.e. the type of numeracy provision actually on the ground.
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Challenges and Opportunities
Challenges and Opportunities
• This is the framework we will use for assimilating the feedback from the groups.
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Types of Numeracy Provision Types of Numeracy Provision
• School Linked• Further Education (Post Compulsory)• WorkPlace• Community• Offender Institutions• ESOL• Independent Training Providers• Accredited and non accredited
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Research as an OpportunityResearch as an Opportunity
Research
Practise
Policy Theory
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How should numeracy be theorised in the context of
Lifelong Learning?
How should numeracy be theorised in the context of
Lifelong Learning?
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Any theorisation of numeracy in the context of lifelong learning must enable:
Any theorisation of numeracy in the context of lifelong learning must enable:
• Policymakers and service providers
• Teacher educators
• Teachers
• Individual learners
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Essential Skills for living Definition of Numeracy
Essential Skills for living Definition of Numeracy
‘ the ability to communicate by talking and listening, reading and writing; to use numeracy; and the ability to handle information.’
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The concept of numeracy must be theorised as a complex construct that
sees numeracy as 'more than mathematics'.
The concept of numeracy must incorporate mathematical, cultural,
social and emotional aspects along with real life experience, knowledge and
skills.
NALA Definition of NumeracyNALA Definition of Numeracy
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How numeracy is conceptualised impacts on what
teachers need to know!
How numeracy is conceptualised impacts on what
teachers need to know!
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What do numeracy teachers need to know?
What do numeracy teachers need to know?
Teaching numeracy to adults is not teaching at a lower level, but really at a higher level because of the complexity of each individual’s numeracy.
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Activity on Individual Numeracy Strategies for solving numeracy
problems
Activity on Individual Numeracy Strategies for solving numeracy
problems
• Sum to do and write down how solved mentally. Share in small groups.
• Football card
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An Individual’s Numeracy
Mathematics
Life Experience
Attitudes Beliefs and
Values
Communication
Personal and Social
DevelopmentMotivation
In a ParticularContext
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The adult learnerThe adult learner
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School mathematics is the primary source of quantitative
literacy for most adults (Steen, 1997)
School mathematics is the primary source of quantitative
literacy for most adults (Steen, 1997)
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School MathematicsSchool Mathematics
• lower numbers of students enrolling in Higher mathematics in upper secondary school.
• widespread under preparedness in the students continuing to Higher education, in numerate disciplines.
• significant numeracy problems in the adult population (IALS, 1997) and in young adults (Pisa, 2005)
• general unwillingness of adult learners to engage further with mathematics.
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The Adult LearnerThe Adult Learner
• Need to know • Self concept• Role of experience • Readiness to learn• Orientation to learning• Motivation• Anxiety
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Activity Maths History TimelineActivity Maths History Timeline
• Individuals asked to indicate on a provided timeline positive (☺) and negative ( )of mathematics/numeracy.
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Adult’s Maths HistoriesAdult’s Maths Histories
• the ‘brick wall’
• the ‘significant other’
• the ‘door’ marked ‘mathematics’• ‘Invisible maths’ or ‘just common
sense’ (Coben, 2005, p. 20).
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Numeracy in the context of a lifelong learner must enable a connectedness among:
Numeracy in the context of a lifelong learner must enable a connectedness among:
• Researchers
• Policymakers and service providers
• Teacher educators and Teachers
• Individual learners
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Researchers
Teacher Educators and
Teachers
Learners
Policy and Service Providers
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Planning the JourneyPlanning the Journey
‘Meeting the Numeracy Challenge’
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On the One RoadOn the One Road
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Travelling Together!Travelling Together!
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Activity on connectednessActivity on connectedness
• Group to form a circle: leader hold end of large ball of wool /ribbon,pass ball to another individual and ask question re workshop; individual holds the end and passes to another individual and ask question. Result after many questions is a woven connected ribbon-interconnecting all participants to one or more individuals.
• Sum up