Numeracy

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Numeracy

• Draft outcomes and experiences

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Session Aims

• Aims By the end of this session(s) participants
  will
• Look in more detail at the guidance in the
  numeracy cover papers.
• Work with the Draft Outcomes and Experiences.

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What is Numeracy?

• A subset of Mathematics
• The number and information handling skills needed
  by everyone as they go about their daily lives
• The number and information handling skills needed
  to access the wider curriculum

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Numeracy Paper Learning and Teaching

• Active learning and planned, purposeful play
• Problem solving approaches
• Development of mathematical thinking skills
• Use of relevant contexts, familiar to young
  peoples experiences
• Appropriate, effective use of technology
• Building on the principles of Assessment is for
  Learning
• Collaborative and independent learning
• Making links across the curriculum

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New emphasis

• All teachers have responsibility for promoting
  the development of numeracy.
• Problem solving embedded
• Relevant contexts
• Chance and uncertainty
• Financial education
• Support material / resources will / have been
  provided nationally and locally to support the
  implementation of new aspects

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Finance education

• Debt statistics
• Average household debt in the UK is 8,791
  (excluding mortgages) and 53,326 including
  mortgages.
• Average owed by every UK adult is 27,445
  (including mortgages). This grew by 265 last
  month.
• Average interest paid by each household on their
  total debt is approximately 3,400 each year.
• Average consumer borrowing via credit cards,
  motor and retail finance deals, overdrafts and
  unsecured personal loans has risen to 4,524 per
  average UK adult at the end of December 2006.
• Britain's personal debt is increasing by 1
  million every 3.85 minutes

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Financial understanding

• The nature and role of money in society,
  including foreign currency
• sources of income
• taxation, spending, saving and investment
• credit and debt
• financial services/products and advisory services
• consumer rights, responsibilities and protection
• the impact of advertising, ICT and the media.

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Financial competence

• keep financial records
• analyse financial information
• assess value for money
• prepare and use budgets
• make informed financial decisions.

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Financial responsibility

• Take increasing responsibility for making
  decisions with respect to themselves
• analyse the potential impact of financial
  decisions made by others on society and the
  environment both locally and globally
• analyse the potential impact of their financial
  decisions on other people and the environment
  both locally and globally.

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Resources for primary schools

• Money Week
• On the Money
• Talk Money, Talk Solutions

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Paired discussion activity

• Choose one line of development to discuss using
  the prompts on the sheet

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further information

• www.LTScotland.org.uk then click on the link
  for A Curriculum for Excellence