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Enhancing Numeracy Skills: Seminar Highlights and Key Messages

Join us for a comprehensive seminar discussing the importance of numeracy in daily life and learning. Learn how to think quantitatively, interpret data, and apply mathematical reasoning effectively. Gain insights on transitioning from junior to senior cycle education and practical recommendations for improving numeracy skills in educational settings. Discover the significance of numeracy targets and effective classroom methodologies. Understand the role of communication, critical thinking, and mathematical language in enhancing numeracy skills. Don't miss out on this informative session!

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Enhancing Numeracy Skills: Seminar Highlights and Key Messages

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  1. Link Day Numeracy Seminar Day 2

  2. Key Messages

  3. Definition of Numeracy Definition of Numeracy • Numeracy involves being able to: • Think and communicate quantitatively • Make sense of data • Have a spatial awareness • Understand patterns and sequences • Recognise situations where mathematical reasoning can be applied to solve problems Numeracy is NOT LIMITED to the ability to use numbers, to add, subtract, multiply and divide. • Numeracy encompasses the ability to use mathematical understanding and skills to • solve problems • meet the demands of day-to-day living in complex social settings Literacy and Numeracy for Learning and Life , DES, 2011

  4. Transition from Junior Cycle to Senior Cycle “While students in Transition Year obtained the highest mean mathematics scores in both 2003 and 2009, the largest decline (33 points) in PISA mathematics between these two cycles also occurred at this grade level” (Mathematics in Transition Year: Insights of Teachers from PISA 2012)

  5. Ordinary Level: Senior Maths Competency Test

  6. TY & Numeracy January 2013

  7. Recommendations of the Report

  8. Numeracy in Action in School

  9. Subject Dept. Plans & DEIS Targets SSE Literacy Targets Numeracy Targets • Record literacy targets being targeted in SIP • Record numeracy targets being targeted in SIP • Record how the subject department plan to meet the targets • Record agreed subject department classroom methodologies across whole school Communication Skills/Speaking & Listening Skills 9

  10. Is there S.A.L.T. on Your Graph? Scale : Is the scale suitable? Axis : Are the intervals equal? Label: Are the axes labelled? What are the units of measure? Title : What is the purpose of the graph/chart ?

  11. Wo Mathematical Language A

  12. Blooms Taxonomy of Critical Thinking Giving A

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