Category: Numeracy
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Dyscalculator lifts the floor for numeracy – Congratulations to Numeracy Educator Award 2025 winner Gary Sharpe
Gary Sharpe wins Numeracy Educator Award for Dyscalculator, an accessibility-first calculator supporting learners with dyscalculia.
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Boost Your Teaching with Literacy and Numeracy: It’s Not Rocket Science
A plain-English introduction to literacy and numeracy This is the plain-English introduction to literacy and numeracy that you’ve been looking for to help you understand what everyone else Is talking about. Kia ora…! Welcome…! Discover how to be more successful in your teaching journey. I’ll introduce and explain some of the fundamentals of adult literacy…
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Why Adult Literacy and Numeracy Levels are Declining in New Zealand – And What About the Effects of COVID 19?
Why Adult Literacy and Numeracy Levels are Declining in New Zealand. LN levels have been on the decline for possibly 20 years or more in NZ. Why do we have this problem with low adult literacy and numeracy? In other words, how did we get here? What are the main kaupapa contributing to this? What…
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NZCALNE (Voc) Adult Literacy And Numeracy Professional Development Resources – 3 Seriously Great Resources
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Literacy and Numeracy: It’s Not Rocket Science – 3 Things You’ll Be Thankful to Learn if You Work in Education
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in Education, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Literacy, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy indicators, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, LiteracyNumeracyPro.com, Low literacy levels, Low numeracy levels, Maori Literacy, Maori literacy initiatives, Maori literacy numeracy initiatives, Map the literacy and numeracy demands, Map the literacy demands, Map the numeracy demands, Numeracy, Numeracy activity, Numeracy Indicators, Pacific Literacy Initiatives, Prison literacyLiteracy and Numeracy – It’s not rocket science. This is the plain-English introduction and guide that will help you understand what everyone else is talking about. You can learn to be more successful as an educator, teacher or trainer by understanding how to integrate literacy and numeracy into your work
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Why haven’t I self-published a book on how to embed literacy and numeracy into vocational training yet?
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in eBook, Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Executive Education, Export Education, Improve teaching practice, Indigenous education, inform teaching, International education, Lean education, Literacy, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, Low literacy levels, Low numeracy levels, Maori Literacy, Maori literacy initiatives, Maori literacy numeracy initiatives, Numeracy, self-publishing, Should we teach, teach, Teach better, Teach Better Now, teacher, Teachers, teaching, Teaching philosophy, You can teach betterNo good reason really… But today I spent about 12 hours learning how to use Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing suite of tools and resources. It was most interesting. I especially like that you can generate these previews above that show you what the final publication will look like. The actual editor tool is a bit…
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What’s the big picture for embedding literacy and numeracy via the new NZCALNE (Voc)?
What’s the big picture? Here’s the big picture for embedding literacy and numeracy and an update on our work at ALEC. This is the big picture for our revised embedding process and pipeline. And it’s the big picture for the new NZCALNE (Voc) training and qualification that we’re feverishly working on. New content for Collections…
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Numeracy Strategies: 3 More Useful Examples
Numeracy strategies for vocational tutors Here are some more examples of numeracy strategies developed by tutors for embedding numeracy into their programmes. These are the kind of concise summaries that you’ll also need to write for your assessment if you’re doing the NZCALNE (Voc). Don’t forget, for assessment purposes for this course, you only need…
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Strategies: How to write your own strategy for embedding number skills into your programme
Time to do some work It’s your turn again. Design your own numeracy strategy by choosing from the options below. Download the worksheet to record your ideas. As always, you can skip ahead to the Assessment template and get started on this part right away. For your assessment, you only need to focus on one…
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Under the hood: Learning progressions for adult numeracy
The Learning Progressions for Adult Numeracy are part two of the Learning Progressions framework. We use the numeracy progressions to help us understand how to embed numeracy. Part one is the Literacy Progressions discussed in the last section. Where does it come from? The Tertiary Education Commission (TEC). What’s it for? The numeracy progressions are…