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 [...]
When we talk about the number of adults who struggle with maths, many people who have good maths, ask ‘why’. They can’t understand ‘how it was allowed to happen’ and they automatically assume they must have gone to a ‘bad’ school with ‘poor’ teachers. If only it was that simple. I have heard so many [...]
This latest guest blog in a series from Maths4us partners is written by Beth Kelly – the Chief Executive Officer for Learning Unlimited, a mathematics specialist in Education with over 25 years of experience teaching adults. Things are starting to heat up here at Learning Unlimited as we make progress on our role in the [...]
At work people use maths all the time and sometimes don’t even realise it. Making sure you get to work on time, planning your journey and working out your payslip and e-banking requires maths. But for some it is not always easy and poor maths skills can become a real barrier to employees’ performance and [...]
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 [...]
