See real-time data on a host of topics important to daily life around the world!! * world population (e.g., births this year, deaths today, net population growth for today) * government and economics (daily government spending by category; computers sold) * society and media (new book titles published, money spent on video games, Google searches) * environment (forest loss, carbon dioxide emissions, current average temperature) * food (tons of food produced; people who died of hunger) * water (water consumed, people with no access to safe drinking water) * energy (solar energy striking Earth; oil pumped; oil, gas, and coal left) * health (deaths caused by alcohol, suicides, road traffic accident fatalities) Worldometers' algorithm takes the latest statistical data available from the United Nations (UN), the World Health Organization (WHO), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and other institutions, and then processes them together with its estimated progression to compute figures current up to the millisecond. Available in dozens of languages, this site is part of the Real Time Statistics Project. Read more about that here: http://www.realtimestatistics.org/

This is Jackie's powerpoint regarding assessment form the Amesa 2009 congress.

Jackies presentation at the AMesa2009 conference. You will find the discussion of this presentation and the podcast here: http://mathsliteracy.ning.com/forum/topics/the-interpretation-of

Running the Numbers looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans .......

Most primary school pupils in South Africa are failing tests for basic language and mathematics skills, the Children's Institute said

Finance Minister Trevor Manuel has highlighted the importance of maths literacy among school children, especially under the current economic climate.

a site that explores th sugary side of things with a wonderful maths lit lesson in there somewhere...

Numbers can't "talk," but they can tell you as much as your human sources can. But just like with human sources, you have to ask! So what should you ask a number? Well, mathematicians have developed an entire field - statistics - dedicated to getting answers out of numbers. Now, you don't have to have a degree in statistics in order to conduct an effective "interview" with your data. But you do need to know a few basics. Here, described in plain English, are some basic concepts in statistics that every writer should know...

mission: the math literacy project provides opportunities for students to achieve in a college preparatory mathematics curriculum so that they may gain access to educational, economic, and social resources that will lead to individual empowerment, independence, and social justice.

A link page with great pointers to data sets. (US nd world) and basic infomation on how to find data

Alisons Gr 11 and Gr 10 maths lit papers for May exam

A copy of the June 2009 Paper 2 written by some schools in the WCED. Thanx Johan!

Official 2009 website for the Amesa conference

The WCED paper 2009

As we all have heard, the laptop for teachers project of the DoE has now been officially been gazetted. Teachers are to get an allowance of R130 per month to subsidise the aquisition of the laptop over a 5 year period. I think this would make a GREAT excercise to work out just how vaible this innitiative is. This document gives the background to the project. I am looking forward to a great lessonplan!!!???? Maybe I can geet Casio to sponsor a calulator for the most innovative lesson plan for this context!??

Alison's exam paper for her grade 12's. The discusssion forum is here: http://mathsliteracy.ning.com/forum/topics/june-2009-past-papers-g10-g12