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Thanx Theresa for sharing your district papers with us!!

How can maths help us in our daily lives? In this exhibit, you'll look at the language of numbers through common situations, such as playing games or cooking. Put your decision-making skills to the test by deciding whether buying or leasing a new car is right for you, and predict how much money you can save for your retirement by using an interest calculator.

The definition of median and mean and the difference between the two terms is poorly understood by many people and while in many data sets, there is only a marginal difference between the two from a practical standpoint, there is sometimes a stark difference between the two.

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)

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!

Lovely collection of resources for maths lit. From curriculum documents to electronic marksheets, pace setters and examplars

Wishing everybody asuccessfull and enjoyable ;-) exam - some links to learner exams and resources.

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?

A site with geopolitical data, statistics on the human population, Earth and more. The main kind of data you can find here is population statistics of regions, countries, provinces and cities. Next to that there are some statistics on economic factors like wealth, infrastructure; statistics on natural phenomena; ....... and yet, even more."

An index that relates the cost of mobile services to income at the bottom of the pyramid in Africa. Is his assumptions feasable? What can we do with this data?

This discussion has been started last year at a conference but I see the poll on our main page reflects that maths lit teachers are all 4 bringing standard grade maths back???????? :-( Maybe we can resusitate this discussion? ) Dont forget to vote on the main network page.....