Numeracy for Teaching
by Derek HaylockFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2002-01-07
Publisher(s): SAGE Publications Ltd
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Summary
This book is designed to help teacher-trainees prepare for the Qualified Teaching Standards numeracy test that must now be passed by all entrants to the teaching profession. The author focuses especially on weaknesses in numeracy often observed in adults, and in teacher-trainees in particular.
Table of Contents
| Mental Calculations, Changing Proportions to Percentages | |
| Mental Calculations, Changing More Proportions to Percentages | |
| Decimals and Percentages | |
| Understanding Data Presented in Tables | |
| Two-Way Tables for Comparing Two Sets of Data | |
| Bar Charts and Frequency Tables for Discrete Data | |
| Bar Charts for Grouped Discrete Data | |
| Finding a Fraction of a Quantity | |
| Fractions to Decimals and Vice Versa | |
| Expressing a Percentage in Fraction Notation | |
| The Commutative Law | |
| The Associative Law | |
| The Distributive Law | |
| Using a Four-Function Calculator, Precedence of Operators | |
| Using a Four-Function Calculator for Money Calculations | |
| Using the Memory on a Four-Function Calculator | |
| Using a Calculator to Express a Proportion as a Percentage | |
| Rounding Answers | |
| Very Large and Very Small Numbers | |
| Mental Calculators, Multiplication Strategies | |
| Mental Calculators, Division Strategies | |
| Mental Calculators, Finding a Percentage of a Quantity | |
| Finding a Percentage of a Quantity Using a Calculator | |
| Adding and Subtracting Decimals | |
| Mental Calculators, Adding Lists | |
| More Multiplications Strategies | |
| More Division Strategies | |
| Multiplication with Decimals | |
| Division with Decimals | |
| Using Approximations to Check Your Answers | |
| Mental Calculations, Time | |
| Knowledge of Metric Units of Length and Distance | |
| Knowledge of Metric Units of Area and Solid Volume | |
| Knowledge of Other Metric Units | |
| Mental Calculations, Money | |
| Simplifying Ratios | |
| Sharing a Quantity in a Given Ratio | |
| Increasing or Decreasing by a Percentage | |
| Expressing an Increase or Decrease as a Percentage | |
| Finding the Original Value after a Percentage Increase or Decrease | |
| Calculating Mean | |
| Modes | |
| Medians | |
| Upper and Lower Quartiles | |
| Measures of Spread, Range and Inter-quartile Range | |
| Box-and-Whisker Diagrams | |
| More Box-and-Whisker Diagrams | |
| Percentiles | |
| Reading Scatter Graphs | |
| Scatter Graphs and Correlation | |
| Conversion Graphs | |
| Interpreting Pie Charts | |
| Substituting into Formulas | |
| Weighted Means | |
| Combining Means or Percentages from Two or More Sets of Data | |
| Understanding Cumulative Frequency Graphs | |
| Cumulative Frequency Graphs, Finding the Median and Quartiles | |
| Line Graphs for Representing Data over Time | |
| Bar Charts for Comparing Two Sets of Data | |
| The Notion of Value-Added | |
| Interpreting Value-added Graphs |
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