For users, contributors and supporters of the Adult Basic Skills Resource Centre (skillsworkshop.org) to
share views and comments about resources; ask for help finding or using resources; discuss current Skills for Life and Functional Skills issues; and add relevant links and information about other useful sources of help for Adult Literacy, Numeracy, Functional Skills and ESOL teachers.
Just like buses the numeracy election resources now seem to be coming along in clusters. There's a great Venn diagram in the centre of today's IoS entitled 'Your guide to a hung parliament'. It even provides a guidance box which explains how to interpret the overlapping areas - and stipulates that 'you don't need a maths degree to understand the circles, triangles and bar charts on these pages'.
Sadly it's not available electronically (unless you're prepared to pay a subscription to pressdisplay) but, just like the resource in today's earlier post, it has great possibilities for mixed ability groups. Anything really, from recognising various 2D shapes through to interpreting the bar charts and the Venn diagram itself. Not to mention the literacy aspects such as prompting discussion, scanning a text to locate information, or reading and responding to a text.
I have been providing dyslexia support and teaching adult literacy and numeracy for eighteen years in an FE College in Oxfordshire, UK. I also run www.skillsworkshop.org - a free resource site for Functional Skills and Skills for Life tutors and students.
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