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Numeracy Committee: Whole School Initiatives 2 October 2014

This program involves implementing timetable changes to support math, providing clocks and number-lines in all classrooms, featuring a math word of the week, and focusing on percentage, time, and measurement themes across the school. Teachers will give test results in fractions for students to calculate percentages themselves.

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Numeracy Committee: Whole School Initiatives 2 October 2014

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  1. Numeracy Committee: Whole School Initiatives 2 October 2014 • Recognition of staff support for and implementation of timetable changes 2014-2015 to support maths. • That clocks would be made available to all classrooms. • That number-lines be displayed in classrooms. • The maths word of the week be displayed around the school, including on the new numeracy notice board, and announced each Wednesday morning. • Whole school numeracy themes: Percentages, time, measurement.

  2. Numeracy theme 1: Percentages Teachers are requested to give back tests results in fraction form so that the students will have to work out the percentage for themselves.

  3. 1st Year Text Book Chapter 7: Percentages

  4. What’s my percentage? Note that in this example we round down: “5 or above give it a shove, 4 or below keep it low” 16 30 = = 0.53333 53% In practice there is no need to write the decimal part Convert from standard into decimal form. Multiply by 100%. Divide 16 by 30 or write fraction into calculator and press “SD” Move the decimal point 2 places to the right and put the “%” symbol after the number

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