Numeracy

Photocopiable; 30 worksheets for adult learners; these worksheets include the most commonly used long vowel phonemes and digraphs; there is also the comments box for the learner to record his/her own progress
 

This book gives examples of where maths is used in the world, and how it can be seen all around us. It introduces the concepts and language of maths. It is not meant to be a comprehensive maths course, but an aid to someone who wishes to learn more about the subject and wants to see practical examples of maths in everyday life.

Photocopiable; 30 worksheets for adult learners; these worksheets are designed to encourage the learner to recognise and use common suffixes to support and extend reading and spelling competence; the main spelling rules are introduced to generate a new word when adding a suffix.
 

Follow up from the Everyday Maths Book 1, this book has been written by Mary Callanan and Mairéad O'Riordáin to meet the needs of adults who would like to improve their numeracy skills.

This updated version of the Numeracy Pack is intended for “anyone who wants to improve their mathematics at the levels covered in the Adult Numeracy Core Curriculum (DFES 2001) and for anyone who wants to help someone to do so.” The pack is divided into four books covering 1) number, 2) four rules,3) fractions, decimals, percentages, ratio and proportion and 4) measurement, handling data, use of calculators and other Technology. The packs can be read in any order and emphasize the need to understand the processes involved.

Everyday Maths is a book of basic maths exercises on everyday themes such as shopping, using a TV guide, sport, advertisements, cooking, medicines, bills etc. The exercises give practice in the skills of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division; measuring; time; money; simple percentages and fractions; use of a calculator and metric/imperial conversion. There are two sections on Maths about the house and one on Shopping sizes. Simple graphs, tables and charts are also included. Students are frequently encouraged to use both estimation and practical mathematical judgement. The language is kept simple and straightforward and an index and detailed answers are given. The 2nd edition of the book was published for the year 2000. 14 of the 23 topics were revised or completely re-written, with up-to-date prices, weights and measures. The whole book was re-typeset and many of the illustrations were improved.