Mathsliteracy Teachers resources

The NCETM site features articles covering a range of topics raising awareness of research items and professional development opportunities as well as activities and resources to use with learners. Signposting includes: items from NRICH - embedding rich mathematics tasks into everyday practice; Skills for Life UPDATE magazine - raising awareness of content with a numeracy focus; the Get On Campaign - giving news of the latest campaign features on darts and football with links to campaign resources for use by numeracy practitioners; and the 'Quicklinks' which lead to more support for numeracy teachers.

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

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

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.

This site is busy building resources and tests that learners can access using their cellphones. What do you think???

Thanx Alison for sharing!

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

Use this free, interactive tutorial to improve your Internet research skills: Tour the best of the web for mathematics. Discover how to search the internet effectively. Judge which websites are worth using....

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

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

Conrad Bubb June Grade 12 paper 1and 2

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

I created this page and guide to assist parents in helping their children make choices between maths and maths literacy at gr 9 level.

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.