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1.1-My first date accessed: 31 August 2016
1.2-Site's address: http://literacynet.org/sciencelincs/slnum-number.html
1.3-What does the website offer?
This is an American based website in which its resources have been arranged to follow the American national education standards. Its vision is to internationally promote and share knowledge of adults’ mathematics learning for the public benefit.
Concentrating on practices, the site offers mathematical information and numeracy instruction. For Numeracy learning and teaching, the site emphasises the ways in which math skills are important to understanding the world around us. In addition, with a considerable amount of Numeracy and Mathematical information and resources, the site delivers these useful resources for direct and independent use by learners. Also, it provides a broad range of curricular materials, learning activities, and lesson plans which can be used in learning and teaching adult numeracy in diverse contexts.
Importantly, this site covers all numeracy features and areas which are required in the ACSF, hence, I find the site is very useful and could be used for numeracy learning and teaching in the Australian context including in VET education.
1.4-Who might find the website useful?
In general, the site of Number and Number sense is very useful for those who want to develop and understand number sense at all numeracy level, because this site provides useful information and resources in helping and developing mathematical knowledge towards numeracy skills of a range of focus areas, such as to:
*communicate using formal and informal language, symbolic and diagrammatic representations, and conventions of mathematics
*identify mathematical information and meaning in activities and texts
*solve a range of numeracy problems within adult contexts
*communicate using formal and informal language, symbolic and diagrammatic representations, and conventions of mathematics
*identify mathematical information and meaning in activities and texts
*solve a range of numeracy problems within adult contexts
Hence, the Resource 1 will be extremely useful for those dealing with the above matters.
Particularly, in the VET context, I find that because the website provides and delivers useful materials and mathematical information and tools closely relating to the Units of competency of FSKNUM04 - Locate, compare and use highly familiar measurements for work, FSKNUM32 - Use and calculate with complex measurements for work, and FSKNUM34 - Use and apply concepts of probability for work, therefore, it would be useful for teachers and learners who are conducting and learning the above Units of Competency.
1.5-How might you use/ how have you used this website with students?
Within the area of Numeracy, the A+Math is the one has been chosen for my Study Skills lessons of the Numeracy focus. However, I have not used it very often since Business Studies and Commerce since my approval is to teach in NSW high schools. Importantly, I would design Numeracy activities linking to this site for my teaching subjects. For example, getting ideas from our tasks, I would require my students to practise the Games providing in the Mathematics Resources. Students would be advised to access this site, and work on some pages; then, they would be asked to write a short essay or response showing influences and their reflection and/or feedback concentrating on ‘dot points’ in the Syllabuses of the Commerce and Business Studies subjects. Regarding my teaching course, in the VET context, numeracy activities would be designed in emphasising and linking to Units of Competency. For example, in the Units of competency of FSKNUM04 - Locate, compare and use highly familiar measurements for work, in order to know and understand how learners learn, all numeracy activities might be used for formative assessment during lesson sessions in both oral and written feedback to and from students.
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