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Maths4Life
Project Status: Current
[Duration] [NIACE's Role] [NIACE Contacts] [Consortium Membership] [Project Leader] [Aims] [Project Themes] [Update] [Additional Information]
Duration of project
Start: June 2004
End: March 2007
NIACE's Role
Consortium Member
NIACE Contacts
Preeti Parmar, Secretarial Assistant
0116 204 6984
preeti.parmar@niace.org.uk
Consortium Membership
 | NIACE |
| The University of Nottingham (Incl CDELL), |
| Kings College, |
| University of London, |
| LSDA, |
| CTAD |
Project Leader
The Institute of Education
Aims
To advance adult/post-16 numeracy and non-specialist mathematics teaching and learning for everyday life and work in England from its present under-developed state through an integrated programme of research and development.
To achieve this Maths4Life will attempt to:
| Improve the quality of teaching and learning |
| Build capacity and engage new learners |
| Popularise maths – stimulate demand and sustain engagement |
| Communicate, consult and collaborate with key stakeholders |
| Ensure numeracy and maths are tackled as a whole organisation priority |
| Connect numeracy and non-specialist maths provision with specialist maths provision and qualifications, focusing on learners’ qualification aims and programmes post 16 |
Project Themes
Maths4Life will be informed by six cross-cutting themes:
| Attracting new learners: motivation, engagement and achievement. |
| Attracting new teachers and developing the existing workforce: capacity building. |
| Attractive provision in a modern environment. |
| Transfer and embedding good practice. |
| Subject-specific pedagogy. |
| Links with related areas, including the 14-19 agenda. |
Update
Work has begun in all of the strands- in particular the first of three stages of pathfinders – running until March 2005. The key theme of this set of four pathfinders is motivation.
| Attracting adult numeracy learners (NIACE). |
| Attracting teachers to numeracy teaching (LLU+). |
| Talking up numeracy – the use of speaking and listening in motivating learners in offender institutions (Institute of Education). |
| The role of ICT in the engagement of learners (CTAD). |
Additional Information
Reports on these pathfinders, a good practice video and CD-ROM will be available in the first year of the project.
A website for Maths4Life has been developed. All those involved in or interested in the teaching and learning of adult numeracy and non-specialist maths, are encouraged to register with the project through the website to receive updates, reports and materials, as they are produced.
