This blog will serve as a kind of repository for links to Adult Numeracy information. The blog will gradually be built up and each blog entry will be updated from time to time.
This blog will focus particularly on some of the theoretical orientations to Adult Maths Education. The reason being that either theoretical underpinning are often left out of the current "skills" discourse in New Zealand, or when theory is considered, it is often at a superficial level.
The blog will also look at issues around assessment (diagnostic, formative and summative). Although instruments are now being produced in Aotearoa New Zealand, the methods by which Adult Numeracy functioning is accurately assessed and evaluated are highly contested.
The contents of this blog:
Adult numeracy as a social practice
Algebra and adult numeracy
Assesssment -IALS and ALLS surveys
Assessing adult numeracy performance
Constructivist orientations
Definitional issues
Ethnomathematics
Identity issues
Language issues and bilingualism
Mathematics and philosophy
Maths anxiety
Numeracy in the workplace
Numeracy pedagogy (andragogy) in practice
Pedagogy and the progressions
Principles and practice
Policy issues
Quantitative reasoning
Relationship of Adult Numeracy to the numeracy project in schools
Reports
Research
Situated learning
Statistical literacy
Theory and practice
Transfer of skills
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