COMM170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Numeracy, Pure Mathematics
COMM170 Lecture Notes Thursday 9th March 2017
Numeracy has a personal element, unlike pure mathematics.
Numeracy connotes mathematicsl topics woven into the context of work, community and
personal life
Four Resource Model for Critical Numeracy
De-coding
- Terminology
- Maths ideas
Meaning making
- What do I know?
- What does it mean?
Using
- Is it significant?
- What are the implications?
Analysing
- Is it true?
- Is it fair?
- Should I be looking at other factors?
- Should I be gathering more data?
- How does it position me?
Using mathematical statistics (the significance and implications)
- In what ways are the mathematical concepts in this context significant or useful?
- What is the purpose of the text and how does it connect into a bigger picrure?
- How might this text be used to promote particular viewpoints?
- What are possible applications and likely impacts?
- How would I use this text and what decisions would I make based on it?
- In what ways am I now thinking about the issues and mathematical concepts
differently?
Example
Up to 70 aer patiets gie rog drug dose for 3 ears at “de’s “t Viets
hospital? – does this mean 70 cancer patients continuously over the 3 years or 70 patients
in total over the 3 years. i.e. 45 one year. 1 one year and the rest for the 3rd year.
sigifiatl less – how much less?
Iside oral epetatios – what are the normal expectations?
Analysing:
- Is it true?
o Are the mathematical concepts used appropriately in this text?
o What is the evidence?
o Does it have reasonable assumptions? Is it logical and consistent? I
o s it researched appropriately?
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