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Numeracy: Crucial to Your Health
"it turns out that most people who consider themselves proficient at digesting number based health information, when called upon, often end up performing quite poorly on problems requiring numeracy." (thanx Johan 4 sharing this link)
How much does it cost to raise a puppy?
Have you ever thought about how much it will cost to raise a puppy?? Do some calculations of your own.....
Puppy Cost - Maths Literacy Teacher's Network
In this discussion Johan gives us a article post of what it cost to raise a puppy. Very relevant. Haw can we take this forward into a great lessonplan?
Creating an online Learning ecology in support of mathematical litercy teachers
""International Journal of Education and Development using ICT - Vol. 5, No. 5 (2009)
Interactive Mathematics - Learn math while you play with it!
Great directory of tutorial textbook style lessons to point your learners to.
Grade 10 Maths literacy material (video snippet and pdf) from the learning Channel
This is quite an extensive collection of videos and notes to accompany the video snippets. To watch the videos, scroll down and click on the maths literacy link, which will open up a collection of links. If you want to download the notes, click on the pdf. You will watch Arnout in action!
Median vs. Mean: Know the Difference or Risk Being Manipulated (ML teachers network)
Two articles: The first one gives a good perspective of the difference between mean and median and how people manipulate the data and teh second one give s an overview of oil prices vs petrol prices (american perspective)
What is mathematical literacy? (pdf)
What is mathematical literacy? To answer this question we must look at the meaning of literacy in general. In the narrowest sense, literacy refers to the ability to read, write, speak, and use language
Mindset Learn maths lit videos (30 of them)
The 30 videos offered by Mindset give a good overview of the content of the Mathematical Literacy curriculum and rich ideas for ways of teaching it in an engaging way that helps learners see how relevant this subject is for them.
Why your child should take mathematical literacy (a guide for south african parents)
I created this page and guide to assist parents in helping their children make choices between maths and maths literacy at gr 9 level. It has a powerpoint presentation which can be used for parent evenings (with a cool joke...) Feel free to adapt and improve.
Literacy, maths shocker in SA
Most primary school pupils in South Africa are failing tests for basic language and mathematics skills, the Children's Institute said
Maths literacy vital: Manuel
Finance Minister Trevor Manuel has highlighted the importance of maths literacy among school children, especially under the current economic climate.
Mathematical Literacy: Finding and Using Data
A link page with great pointers to data sets. (US nd world) and basic infomation on how to find data
Amusement Park problem: Ticket prices
This problem presents students with a “which-is-thebest-buy” scenario involving admission to an amusement park. Students choose between four different admission rates, and then must justify why they selected the rate that they did.
Importance of Mathematics in daily life: Twitter survey results
A twitter survey of how people use maths in their everyday lives. A great use of twitter!
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