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Are Your Students 'Happy', 'Perfect' Or 'Amicable'?, Ray Peck
Are Your Students 'Happy', 'Perfect' Or 'Amicable'?, Ray Peck
Ray Peck
'Happy' numbers were discovered by a young girl. 'Perfect' numbers were known to the Greeks and given special significance. 'Amicable' numbers have a long history in magic and astrology, making love potions and talismans. In 1866, a sixteen year-old boy discovered a pair of amicable numbers previously unknown. Birthdays, house numbers, telephone numbers and even the names of the students in a class can provide the number source for investigation. This mathematics is interesting and accessible to students in the middle years and provides an opportunity to explore numbers, practice skills, learn some history of mathematics and have some fun …
Making Meaning In Maths : Adult Numeracy Teaching, B Johnston, B Marr, Dave Tout
Making Meaning In Maths : Adult Numeracy Teaching, B Johnston, B Marr, Dave Tout
David (Dave) Tout
In this paper, the authors argue that adult numeracy is a small educational field with little published research and only a small number of teaching materials and professional development and training packages available. Since the late 1980s, Australia has become quite active in the adult numeracy area and now has developed quite a range of adult numeracy curriculum, teaching resources and professional development options for teachers. This paper defines numeracy as more than mathematics and describes the establishment of the course, Adult Numeracy Teaching : Making Meaning in Mathematics (ANT), a professional development course targeted at experienced adult literacy, language …