Terry Maguire says that doing a Maths Trail around a local park or amenity is a great way to help individuals develop their 'maths eyes' and use their own strategies for working our problems. Maths Trails for a particular area should be available at different levels to ensure everyone has activities to do or problems to solve to match their knowledge and skills.
In this video Daniel Sellers talks about teaching fractions, decimals and percentages to adult learners. He gives talks about using what the learners already know as a good starting point in order to take the fear out of the subject.
In this video Daniel Sellers talks about how money can be a useful context for teaching literacy, numeracy and digital skills. He explains how money can be a useful starting point for applying newly acquired skills.
In this video Daniel Sellers talks about the topic of time. This topic was one of the most popular featured in recent NALA research with numeracy tutors. Daniel describes ways in which tutors can teach both analogue and digital time to adult learners.
Tips on teaching fractions, decimals, percentages and the need for meaningful contexts - Daniel Sellers, Educational Consultant (from NALA's 2015 Numeracy conference)
Top tips on teaching and learning statistics using real data at levels 2 and 3 - Fiona Faulkner, Dublin Institute of Technology (from NALA's 2015 Numeracy conference)