Welcome

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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