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Understanding Numeracy: The Power of Numbers in Our Lives

In today's data-driven world, understanding numeracy is essential for making informed decisions and telling impactful stories. This exploration of numeracy delves into why we need it, how we can trust the information we receive, and the ways we can better connect with numbers in everyday life. We will investigate the power of storytelling through data, the relevance of numeracy in various aspects of life, and how mathematics can enhance our understanding of complex issues. Discover the importance of questioning the data and utilizing numbers meaningfully.

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Understanding Numeracy: The Power of Numbers in Our Lives

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  1. Why do we need them? Can we trust them? How do we get to know them well? Numbers as Story Tellers http://www.fno.org/oct04/numeracy.ppt.htm

  2. What’s the story here?

  3. What’s the story here? • 1969 • 1976 • 1925 • 1922 • 1937 • 1973 • 1933 • 1948 • 1944 • 1904 • 1981 • 1872 • 1918 • 1860 • 1960 • 1876 • 1980 • 1967 • 1974 • 1977 • 1979 • 1981 • 1978 Founding Dates of NZ Wineries • 1975 • 1980 • 1973 • 1974 • 1943 • 1902 • 1947 • 1942 • 1937 • 1983 • 1934 • 1936 • 1935 • 1902 • 1937 • 1961 • 1979

  4. Do Numbers Ever Lie? “Life is getting better!”

  5. Maths vs. Numeracy • The doing • Memorized patterns • Cooking by recipe ------ vs. ------- • Figuring stuff out • Solving unusual problems • The bigger picture of literacies and understanding • Cooking for real • Weaving webs of meaning

  6. Numbers: What are they good for? • Counting • Describing • Measuring • Mixing • Building • Cooking • Planning • Predicting • Accounting • Selling • Understanding • Digging to China? • Finding the difficult truth? • Telling stories

  7. Why bother? • Consumer issues • Citizenship issues • Employment issues • Invention and discovery issues • Others?

  8. Home-Made Collections • Pets • Patterns of behavior • Interviews • Experiments • Observations

  9. BOM • What can we do with all those numbers?

  10. What are the Questions? The BOM provides lessons that might prove useful.

  11. Serial Questioners

  12. Exploring vs. Describing • What’s going on? • What’s the story? • What is really happening?

  13. Figuring Out vs. Describing Why do you suppose?

  14. Predicting vs. Describing What are the chances that X will happen?

  15. Critiquing vs. Accepting • Challenging • Debunking • Wondering • Analyzing Life is getting better!

  16. Number Stories

  17. Numeracy in the News http://ink.news.com.au/mercury/mathguys/mercury.htm

  18. Chance and Data from MANSW http://hsc.csu.edu.au/pta/mansw/chance.htm

  19. EDNA Theme Page http://www.edna.edu.au/edna/page456.html

  20. Crunching NumbersExploring the World with Data http://fnopress.com/CRUNCH.htm

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