Numeracy Skills its fundamentals and stage as well as strategies to enhance numeracy

1. February 17, 2022

3. This training is designed to discuss the following
topics:
1.What is numeracy?
2.Numeracy skills examples
3.Concept of numeracy
4.What is the numeracy skill targeted?
5.Strategies to enhance numeracy skills

4. What is Numeracy?
Numeracy
is the ability to recognize and apply
math's concepts in all areas of life. Numeracy skills
involve understanding numbers, counting, solving
number problems, measuring, estimating, sorting,
noticing patterns, adding and subtracting
numbers, and so on.

6. Numeracy play a vital role in living, learning
and working in today’s society. Students need
strong numeracy skills to navigate and make
meaning in an increasingly complex and
technology-driven world. It is important for our
students to have strong numeracy skills so they
can interpret quantitative and spatial information
to make informed decisions throughout their lives.

7. What are Numeracy Skills
Examples?
Numeracy skills involve :
1.understanding numbers,
2.counting,
3.solving number problems,

8. What are Numeracy Skills
Examples?
Numeracy skills involve :
4. measuring,
5. estimating,
6. sorting,
7. noticing patterns,
8. adding and subtracting numbers

9. Numeracy Skills Examples
1. solve problems
for example, have I got time to walk to school?
2. analyze and make sense of information –
for example, how many wins does my team
need to get to the top of the competition?

10. Numeracy Skills Examples
3. understand patterns –
for example, what number would the next house
in this street be?
4. make choices –
for example, which bike is the best value?
Your child’s everyday experiences are full of learning
opportunities that lay the foundations for numeracy.

11. How your child starts learning
numeracy skills
Children start learning numeracy skills from
the time they’re born. This learning happens from
watching and experiencing numeracy in action,
especially in everyday play and activities.

12. How your child starts learning
numeracy skills
For example, it happens when your child:
1. Hears you counting their fingers and toes starts to
recognize numbers and shapes on objects like clocks and
phones or in books decides how many slices of apple they
want.
2. As children get older, they learn more numeracy and
math's skills, including size and measurement. For example,
this happens when your child: compares things of different
sizes – ‘big’, ‘small’ and ‘medium’

13. 1.groups things together and talks about ‘same’ and ‘different’
2.uses words to describe where things are – ‘over’, ‘under’ and
‘next to’ helps set the table with the right number of plates,
forks, spoons and cups fills a water bottle helps with the
shopping and
3.uses money to buy things divides food into equal shares.
And when you talk with your child about math's concepts
in your everyday activities, it helps your child understand how
and why math's is useful.

14. Stages of Learning
Early Numeracy
Concepts

15. The Stages of Learning Early Numeracy
Concepts
The stages of learning early numeracy concepts are:
1.Emergent
2.Perceptual
3.Figurative
4.counting on and facile.

16. 1. Emergent Numeracy
the ability to recognize numbers and undertake
numerical operations and reasoning in mathematics.
2. Perceptual numeracy
the stage of counting are able to count collections
of objects that they can see, hear or feel. They rely on
concrete representations of numbers. ... Children at this
stage rely on the strategy of counting by ones and
always begin at one when they count.

17. 3. Figurative Counting Stage
students have an understanding of numbers as
entities. They are able to count collections which are totally
totally or partially concealed. They do not need to see, feel
or hear the items in a collection to be able to count the
collection.
4. Children at the Counting on Stage
applying a variety of strategies other than counting by
ones to solve arithmetical tasks, Forming equal groups and
finding the total, using skip counting and Developing a
concept of 10 as a unit.

26. What is the numeracy skill targeted?
Numeracy
encompasses the
knowledge, skills,
behaviours and
dispositions that
students need to use
mathematics in a
range of situations.

27. Strategies to Enhance Numeracy Skills
Evidence-based practices to improve numeracy
•Intervene early and maintain the focus.
•Know what students can do and target teaching
accordingly.
•Have clear and transparent learning goals.
•Focus on teacher professional learning that improves the
teaching of literacy and numeracy.

28. Marry Words and Numbers to Provide a
Complete Understanding
When presenting numeric information (such as quantities, ratios,
percentages, and so forth), emphasize numbers rather than words such
as “rare,” “low risk,” or “common.” Such words have different meanings
to people and can lead to confusion.
However, neither words nor numbers are free from
misinterpretation. Instead of replacing numbers with words or words
with numbers, use both when feasible to help people better understand
your message. This means ensuring that explanatory text accompanies
the numbers, interprets their meaning, and gives descriptive
information to place the numerical information in context.

29. Do the Math
Always do the math for your audience. For
example, instead of advising people to lose a certain
percentage of their body weight, which requires them
to measure their weight and then calculate a
percentage, advise them to lose a precise number of
pounds. By doing the math for these individuals, you
give them a specific action goal while not requiring
them to perform mathematics.

30. Be Consistent
Use consistent language and presentation styles and formats
to help avoid confusion. Present numbers in consistent and
expected formats—this further removes the burden of performing
calculations and makes it easier to compare numbers. For example,
use the same denominators in fractions and ratios when comparing
information—that is, compare “10 out of 40” to “20 out of 40,” not
to “10 out of 20.”
Consistency is also important when providing information
such as dosage instructions. What pharmacists write on the
prescription label often vary, given the same prescription, and these
variations can cause patient confusion (Wolf et al., 2009).

31. Present Only the Most Necessary Information, But
Enough to Be Fully Understood
Providing too much information can be overwhelming,
especially to those with lower numeracy and health literacy skills. Do
not overwhelm people with numbers, but do give them all of what
they need to make a truly informed decision. For example, to help
people compare treatment options (for example, surgery versus
chemotherapy versus palliative care, or chemotherapy alone versus
chemotherapy plus radiation treatment), present only the most
important information related to the goal of this task—understanding
and then choosing the best treatment option. This means eliminating
background information that is not directly relevant to the choice.

32. Be Visual – Use Images and Shapes to Reflect the
Meaning of the Numbers
Researchers suggest giving people information in different ways,
such as in verbal along with written or graphical form, to meet their
preferred learning style and to ensure understandability. Providing
information in graphical form using charts, pictographs, and diagrams is
particularly helpful.
Combine numbers, words, and visuals to explain risk statements.
Risk statements that solely rely on numbers may be difficult. People better
understand probabilities when they are presented with words and visuals
that reinforce the meaning of the numbers rather than when numbers are
presented alone. Certain types of graphics in risk communication, such as
icon arrays, bar charts, and risk scales can also be helpful

33. Different types of visuals are better for communicating different
concepts:
 Line graphs are usually better to explain trends over time than pie
charts or bar graphs.
 Pie charts often show magnitude through an easy comparison of a part
to the whole.
 Bar charts can show magnitude and change over time or across groups.
 Maps allow geographic comparison.
 Pictographs or icon arrays can represent quantity while reflecting
percentage of the whole

34. Conclusion
Numeracy helps people in all walks of life—be they
mathematical experts or third-grade students—to solve problems. One
thing we can all agree on is that being alive inherently means you will
encounter problems to be solved. These may be entirely numerical or
about a risk you do not understand or a social or cultural situation you
find perplexing. We close by proposing that numeracy skills—both the
skill to navigate numbers as well as the skill to successfully
communicate numerical information—will be useful across the wide
range of problems life presents. By making numbers and their
implications more understandable to more people, we can improve
decision making, efficiency, and outcomes such as health and quality of
life.