Numeracy Workshop: Supporting Adult Learners in Mathematics
Explore how tutors can enhance adult learners' numeracy skills using everyday objects, practical tools, and technology. Topics covered include decimals, money, length, capacity, and more. The workshop materials provide guidance on fostering a deeper understanding of math concepts for returning learners.
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NALA Numeracy Workshop 2016 Tutors' toolbox: How tutors can use everyday objects, practical supports and technology to support adult learners returning to mathematics Clare Hatcher, Tutor, Cork ETB
Whats in a number? 1.42 From Numeracy Developing Adult Teaching and Learning Practitioner Guides Swain (2007)
Rounding up and down Decimals Fraction/ percentage/ decimal equivalents Money Length/ width/ height/ depth Capacity/ volume Weight Time hours, minutes, seconds
Money Real/ fake money Receipts (rounding) Shop adverts price per kg Bank statements Bills Estimating cost Calculating change Discounts Budgeting Payslip/ taxes VAT Currency conversions Price bingo Argos/ other catalogues Newspaper supplements Bruce s price is right Raffles, bake sales Bus fare/ ticket prices Place value chart Number line Decimal strips Use coins to count Language of money Positive/ negative numbers How many ways to count / divide one euro?
Decimals Portion of a number Hidden zeros (24 = 24.00) Moving the decimal point Place value chart Number line Decimal strips/ hundred square Money Rounding Which decimal number is bigger What s the point stories
Length/ Width/ Height Everything! Tape measure String Clothing size chart Furniture The body DIY Gardening Speed Distance sport Google maps Area Tools and equipment Place value chart Number line Decimal strips Estimating What s the point stories Converting mm/cm/m Manipulating 10, 100, 1,000 Language and abbreviations
Size charts From O Neills Irish International Sports
Capacity/ Volume Liquid containers Shop adverts Capacity of cups, glasses, bottles Recipes Watching petrol pump calculate volume/ price Medicine Place value mat Number line Decimal strips Matching pictures Estimating Converting ml/l Manipulating 10, 100, 1,000 Language and abbreviations
Item Estimate (with unit) Measurement (with unit Glass of wine Width of a finger Amount of paracetamol in a tablet One potato Medicine spoon Can be used for any item best to work with each type of measurement separately at first
Weight Digital/ analogue scales How to read scales Practical activities Associating real objects with their weight how much does a potato / a teaspoon of sugar weigh? Medicine tablets Why, when and how do we measure? Food packages Nutrition labels - RDA Cooking recipes, shopping Place value mat Number line Decimal strips Matching pictures Estimating What s the point stories Converting g/kg Language and abbreviations Manipulating 10, 100, 1,000 Imperial/ metric
Time Analogue/ digital Counting to 12 on one hand Planning a journey Timetables Journey times/ delays Time zones Summer/ winter hour change Leap years Setting timers Recipes cooking times Stopwatch watching the clock change Timeline past present future and dates World records in sport 42/60 = 42 seconds/ 42 minutes Fitness targets Class/ school timetable TV guide Phone Payroll hours worked Calendars Time management Moveable analogue clock face Converting analogue to digital Thinking in 5 s, 12 s and 60 s Language of time Fractions of time 12 and 24 hour clock Small hand, big hand Estimation Duration Time remaining - countdown
Hands On Manipulatives
Place value chart Hundreds Tens Units Tenths Hundredths Decimal point . Never be without one!
Hundred Square Should you start with 0 to reinforce place value? Or start with 1? See layout starting with 0 in NALA s Brushing Up on numeracy
Use a blank hundred square to show 1/100 or 1% or 0.01 Make your own fraction/ decimal/ percentage strips
Multiplication square So that s what a square number looks like Handy guide for adults / carers much more manageable (and fewer unpleasant memories) than times table charts
Sieve of Eratosthenes I have heard of prime numbers, but I never had a clue what one was..Now I get it
A Fraction Wall Make one from blank card a great hands on tool. It s much better than just having fractions on the board and trying to remember them
Adding numbers using number lines +1 +1 +1 6+3=? I always saw one of those on the desk at school but I never knew what it was for.. Also use for counting on in subtraction, working larger numbers including dates
Games Dice, cards and dominoes
Race to 100 First player rolls two dice in turn and adds up the total of the two dice. Player then puts that score on the hundred square/ keeps a tally. Play continues to the left. First player to reach100 wins. The exact number is required to reach 100 . When 6 or less spaces are left, the player only rolls one dice. This can be done in reverse to subtract from 100. You can also use it for multiplication or division.
Multiplication dominoes 2 or more players Put all the dominoes face down. Each player turns up a domino and multiplies the two numbers on the domino. Whoever has the highest number keeps all the dominoes from that round. If there is a tie, then those who have a tie pick up another domino. Whoever has the higher number keeps all the dominoes from that round. When all dominoes are used up, the person with the most dominoes wins the game.
Multiplication war 1. Take out all the Kings, Queens, Jacks and jokers. Put all the remaining cards in a pile. 2 Each player takes two cards from the pile and does not look at them. 3 The first player then puts their two cards face up in front of them, multiplies the two cards and calls out the product. Play continues to the left. The player with the largest product wins all the cards in that round. 4 Play continues until there are no cards left in the pile. 5 The player with the most cards wins the game.
Resources Resources Manuals/ Books NALA Brushing up: a maths workbook (2015) NALA What Really Counts: Case studies of adult numeracy practice in Ireland (2013) NALA What Really Counts Next: Action Learning project with numeracy tutors (2015) NALA A Wealth of Practice: case studies of financial numeracy practice in Ireland (2015) Benn, R (2013) Adults Count Too Mathematics for Empowerment, Leicester, Niace Caffrey, P. Maths in Focus and workbook www.graspit.ie Coben and Black (2004) The Numeracy Pack, Basic Skills Agency FESS Quantity and Number (M2N05) Resource List Marr, B (2013) Building Strength with Numeracy Available free from www.valbec.org.au/ building-strength-with-numeracy/ Nonesuch, K (2006) Changing the Way We Teach Math A Manual for Teaching Basic Math to Adults Available free from www.katenonesuch.com/resources/math/ Swain, J. , Newmarch, B. and Gormley, O. (2007) Numeracy Developing Adult Teaching and Learning: Practitioner Guides, Leicester, Niace Voices of Adult Maths Learners (2013) Niace Available from www.learningandwork.org.uk/
Websites Maths is Fun www.mathsisfun.com Maths Eyes www.haveyougotmathseyes.com BBC Skillswise www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/maths Maths everywhere www.mathseverywhere.org.uk/ Misconceptions in Maths www.counton.org/resources/misconceptions Write On resources.writeon.ie National Centre for Excellence in Teaching Mathematics www.ncetm.org.uk Khan Academy www.khanacademy.org Where to get materials? Converto decimal/ fraction/ percentage cards Wipeable hundred squares Geometric buckle bar set Various suppliers including artbythelee.ie online catalogue
