Graham Griffiths, Rachel Stone

Teaching Adult Numeracy: Principles & Practice

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Offers friendly guidance on how to work with adult learners to develop their numeracy and mathematics skills. This book brings together research and practice on teaching adult numeracy into one handy volume and covers the major issues faced by teachers of adult numeracy such as policy perspectives and implications for teaching practice.

Produktdetails

• Developing Adult Skills
• Verlag: Open University Press
• New
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 546g
• ISBN-13: 9780335246823
• ISBN-10: 0335246826
• Artikelnr.: 38612142

Autorenporträt

Graham Griffiths is Lecturer in Education at the Institute of Education, University of London, UK and a director of Learning Unlimited Ltd. Rachel Stone is Lecturer in Education at Sheffield Hallam University, UK and an independent consultant.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Section One: Numeracy and society
The social context of numeracy
Why and where adult numeracy teaching and learning takes place
Adult numeracy learners
Section Two: Understanding Numeracy
Mathematics and numeracy
Language and mathematics
Teachers and the process of mathematical thinking
Provoking mathematical thinking: numeracy teachers doing 'realistic' maths
Attitudes, beliefs and teaching
Section Three: Teaching and learning numeracy
Approaches to teaching adult numeracy
Planning for numeracy learning
Assessment
Teaching number, measure and data
Section Four: Contexts for teaching and learning numeracy
Family mathematics
Developing numeracy skills in vocational contexts: learning for and in the
workplace
Section Five: Numeracy and inclusive learning
Dyslexia, dyscalculia and numeracy
Mental health and the emotional aspects of learning mathematics
References