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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 video and pdf links. If you want to download the notes, click on the pdf and if you want to watch the videos, click on the arows and the video will start playing in th top window. You will watch Arnout in action!

Handy program to convert mindmaps 2 pDF docs

See paper here: http://www.timeslive.co.za/multimedia/archive/00673/Maths_Literacy_Pape_673322a.pdf

The memo is here: http://www.timeslive.co.za/multimedia/archive/00676/Maths_Literacy_Pape_676140a.pdf

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!

he second event aims to finish the current draft of the Gr 10 ML textbook, in collaboration with interested educators and post-grad students. This Grade 10 Maths Lit textbook will be available for use in 2013 and beyond, and have its own website, be available via cellphone, on Mxit, as a PDF and in print. We are in serious negotiations with DBE to have it printed for all government schools next year.

Thanx gill for sending me this paper. It is in pdf format and have been scanned

In this unit students develop a variety of mathematical skills including: * Data collection and organisation, using a questionnaire about grocery stores, brand names and cell-phones.* Graphical representation of the data collected using bar graphs and pie charts.* Understanding cumulative data, as well as developing and interpreting frequency tables. * Analysis of data to answer questions, using graphs and tables.* Reading and interpreting fi gures, in the context of a newspaper report concerning skills development. * Calculating the various measures of central tendency and percentages in the context of workers and wages.* Working with range and spread of data.* Identifying distortion and manipulation of information.* Identifying patterns and trends,  through working with scatterplots and broken line graphs.* Making simple predictions and comparisons.

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

Arnold Brombacher's powerpoint with some examples of waht it measn to be mathemetically literate. This is also a good resource to use when doing parent advocacy

Have you thought about your organisations learning footprint? By reducing or even eliminating the need to travel for staff training, you could see a dramatic reduction in your organisations carbon emissions. Learning Footprint is a website dedicated to helping organisations mimimise the environmental impact of their training and development programmes through the use of E-Learning. Use the free calculator to estimate your learning footprint and see how much carbon you could save by switching a percentage of your training to E-Learning. You can even download a PDF report of the calculation to include in your next business case.

This document gives the various breakdowns and some examples of what is expected at which thinking level

Drawing graphs of real life situations Drawing and interpreting more than one graph on a system of axes. Grids, maps, compass Use and interpret scale drawings, build scale models Compare, summarise and display data - describe trends Probability and misuse of statistics in society

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