Element 4 - Identify the literacy strengths and needs of the individual learners in the training or education programme./Suggested teaching and learning activity 4

Exploring ways to solve calculations

Use questions from pp. 9 – 15 Teaching Adults to Make Sense of Number to Solve Problems. Purpose: to identify strategies for solving calculations, and to understand the relationships between number knowledge and problem solving strategies. Provide practise in identifying and contextualising everyday and/or work-based calculations. Groups can make decisions about the degree of precision required, and level of sophistication of the knowledge and strategies required. As a whole group, discuss the implications of assessing strategy and knowledge progressions.