Today’s Maths4us guest post is written by JD Carpentieri, Senior Policy and Research Officer, National Research and Development Centre (NRDC) for Adult Literacy and Numeracy Institute of Education, University of London. This is a post about strengths and weaknesses. First the weaknesses: maths skills and maths attitudes. Research (much of it from NRDC) shows that [...]
Guest post by Rob Wilmot – founding CTO of Freeserve, entrepreneur, investor and educator – who will be on the selection panel that decides which maths apps to fund and develop, as part of Maths4us. I was rubbish at maths at school – I never got my head around times tables, fractions looked alien to me [...]
At the Association for Learning Technology (ALT), we’re currently working together with partners to develop an index of apps for maths, as part of the Maths4us initiative. Apps, as we define them for this initiative, include a large number of online tools such as calculators or currency converters that you can download to a mobile [...]
A while ago, I went to a parents evening at my son’s school, where his IT teacher told me he wasn’t doing very well with Excel. This didn’t sound much like Theo to me. When questioned later, he claimed the spreadsheets were boring, and he was better off doing any bits of maths required in [...]
One line in New Challenges, New Chances will have caught the eye of anyone who knows that maths counts: “…[The Government will]…promote a national maths campaign…we will work with stakeholders and seek to engage champions, including high profile employers.” Since this announcement, NIACE has been asked to lead and manage the initiative, working with a [...]
