This report identifies critical factors for successful numeracy learning in tertiary education. It is based on the latest teaching and learning research from New Zealand and overseas. It sets out the practical implications of these findings for how providers teach numeracy, particularly as part of vocational qualifications.
Purpose
The critical factors for effectively embedding numeracy are described in three sets of research-based understandings as follows:
- How adults develop their numeracy expertise.
- The features of effective embedded numeracy provision.
- Managing and sustaining change to achieve effective long-term embedding of numeracy.
Each of these three sets is developed as four understandings.