And I'm sorry but yes, the numeracy part does involve learning times tables. |
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For this reason, it was decided to teach literacy and numeracy skills to older members of the community. |
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The New Zealand education system allows one in five of our children to leave school without basic numeracy and literacy skills. |
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They took City and Guild courses in literacy, numeracy and personal skills. |
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Discover more about springboard materials, booster lessons, and view summer numeracy schools' units of work. |
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He said the project would also contribute to students' literacy and numeracy skills. |
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Innovative programmes successfully encouraged adults to develop their literacy and numeracy skills. |
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The apprentice team already have literacy and numeracy skills at Year Nine to Ten level. |
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Learning is re-enforced and encouraged through the use of crosswords, word searches, memory skills, word wheels, numeracy and other activities. |
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The minister committed to improving literacy and numeracy skills for farm workers and agri-businesses. |
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Young offenders will improve their reading, writing and numeracy to help them get jobs after they leave custody. |
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At its heart lie core skills in computers, numeracy and literacy, with students given flexibility to choose the rest of their timetable. |
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The literacy and numeracy strategies were not compulsory in primary schools. |
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Are you interested in helping adults with reading, writing, spelling or numeracy? |
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He tells me about a 22-year-old he knows who has almost no literacy or numeracy and few social skills. |
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Mornings focus on literacy and numeracy, while afternoons are spent on humanities, science and sport. |
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The national figures compare Years Three and Five reading and numeracy levels across Australian States and Territories. |
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They were looking for local individuals who had made a significant contribution to the literacy and numeracy skills of residents in the town. |
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Assuming basic literacy and numeracy skills, however, the voting process itself would not be all that difficult. |
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A child who left school with no basic literacy or numeracy skills would be severely disadvantaged. |
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Children play a number of different games with the cards which helps them in developing their literacy and numeracy skills. |
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Colleges of further education have expertise in teaching basic skills and literacy and numeracy. |
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I do plead guilty to having literacy and numeracy as pet projects. |
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These are aimed at pupils who are underachieving or at risk of exclusion and cover basic skills like literacy and numeracy as well as sport, music, ICT and media courses. |
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Much of the research points to the importance employers attach to personal qualities and basic literacy and numeracy, rather than vocational or pre-vocational skills. |
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Tragically, efforts to improve literacy and numeracy skills may come to naught if essential life skills are not also developed. |
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They apply his concept of anthroposophy to schools, saying education must address a child's spiritual, physical, numeracy and literacy development. |
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It's not just an education system about teaching literacy and numeracy. |
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As already mentioned, efforts to boost numeracy skills could be supportive to other financial literacy initiatives. |
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If people have literacy and numeracy they are a danger to the leadership of the worst-governed countries. |
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It should teach basic literacy and numeracy skills, provide curricula that are relevant to the needs of learners and encourage critical thinking. |
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The report is to set a target for improved literacy and numeracy of primary students. |
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Programmes targeting the early acquisition of basic skills, especially literacy and numeracy are emerging as a strategy in most countries. |
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Building on a sound mastery of numeracy, the emphasis is on process and activity, as well as knowledge. |
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The centres provide somewhere safe for them to play with other children, and they are taught basic literacy and numeracy. |
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Basic education, including literacy, numeracy and life-skills training is its foundation. |
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Students have also improved their performance in reading and numeracy tests. |
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There are certain areas, such as literacy and numeracy, where we can now gain some idea of what has been achieved. |
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Today, however, basic literacy and numeracy for children and adults alike are recognized as vital for equitable and sustainable development. |
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Leeds is one of nine pilot areas in England trialling new approaches to identify and improve the literacy and numeracy skills of people on Jobseekers Allowance. |
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Once a need has been identified nursery staff can then give people information on where they can get help with literacy, numeracy or language skills. |
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Civil servants there are being offered tuition in the basic numeracy and literacy skills they failed to pick up at the schools now under their command. |
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She doesn't have the requisite literacy and numeracy skills. |
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Poverty comes in many forms but the poverty of a child who lacks the basic skills of literacy and numeracy casts a shadow over his or her whole life. |
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Another hidden group is people with poor literacy and numeracy skills. |
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When asked about the extent to which employees' generic skills meet organization needs, employers gave a high rating for literacy and numeracy, as well as the ability to work in teams and communication. |
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Under the Ottoman rule, numeracy, school enrollment and literacy rates were all low. |
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Family literacy refers to the various ways families develop and use literacy skills such as reading, writing and numeracy to fulfill daily tasks and activities. |
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A growing body of research focuses on the consequences of low early numeracy in preschoolers and kindergartners. |
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It boosts children's confidence, helps their oracy and literacy skills and develops their numeracy understanding. |
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Too many people do not enter or remain in the labour market, because of lack of skills including in basic literacy and numeracy, or due to skills mismatches. |
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His system was successful in producing obedient children with basic literacy and numeracy. |
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Improving all aspects of the quality of education and ensuring excellence of all so that recognised and measurable learning outcomes are achieved by all, especially in literacy, numeracy and essential life skills. |
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In addition, Manitoba has emphasized early literacy and numeracy programs in its schools and provides school boards with additional resources for such initiatives. |
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The Internet and computer skills are as fundamental to an individual's success in the knowledge-based economy as basic literacy and numeracy skills. |
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The employee-centred project is available to any employee who wants to build on English language literacy and numeracy skills for the workplace or daily life. |
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With nitwits like her at the helm is it any wonder Britain is languishing at 22nd on the global scale for literacy and 21st for numeracy? |
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This should involve the acquisition of more complex competences in school, including enhanced literary and numeracy skills and the ability to understand and communicate through the tools of modern technology. |
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Secondly, the report recommends that primary maths programmes should move away from the focus on numeracy and instead look at developing a stronger mathematical foundation by exploring ideas and concepts. |
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The fact that they are pie charts will aid numeracy and the benches will need assembling so the students can get involved. |
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The left side deals with reading, writing, numeracy and language. |
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In just five years, he ushered in Sure Start, literacy and numeracy hours, called out the poorest secondary schools, and set about widening university access from what had been a despicably low base. |
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Although the unschooled graduates coped well with the test of simple comprehension, they did not on average achieve satisfactory scores on more complex comprehension, numeracy and writing. |
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The curriculum in the East was more likely to include music and physical training along with literacy and numeracy. |
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For this project, the goal for my numeracy teaching was for students to come to consider mathematics as being all around them. |
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Under emergency conditions, it is desirable to enrol girls in school at an early age so that they can make substantial progress in their schooling before puberty, and hopefully attain sustainable literacy and numeracy. |
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If their only purpose in learning numeracy is to keep simple records of money borrowed or lent and payments made, they are numerate in their own terms. |
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The performance of indigenous students in national literacy and numeracy tests conducted in school years three, five, and seven is also inferior to that of their cohorts. |
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In addition, numeracy was necessary for any form of commerce. |
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They're also furious at changes in the curriculum to improve children's literacy and numeracy skills because they don't fit in with their progressive ideas. |
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Employers often experience difficulty in finding young people who have such basic employability skills as literacy, numeracy, problem solving, teamworking and time management. |
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Of note is the nature of mercantile arithmetic, the centesimal and decimal place value systems that were often adopted, and the political uses of numeracy. |
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