What does Numeracy look like?

Graduation Numeracy Assessment

Are you more numerate than a 10th grader? How would you do on British Columbia’s new Graduation Numeracy Assessment?  Click on the picture of the exam question and give the assessment a try.  To log in, just pick any school district and any 9 digit PEN. I’d love to hear your feedback in the comments. Speaking of numeracy, SFU’s Peter Liljedahl has prepared a selection of numeracy tasks, for K-12, that can help with developing students’ skills. He also had a hand in writing the Graduation Numeracy Assessment, so practicing these from K-11 would be great preparation for students.

Carole Fullerton

We had a great turn out for Carole Fullerton’s workshops on November 7th.  As you can see from the picture, some students (in this case, at Chaffey-Burke) are already hard at work practicing their visualization of 5’s and writing about what they have.  I’m hoping to organize a follow up in the spring where those of us working to implement Carole’s ideas in the classroom get together to talk about what’s working and what more we need.  Also, for those of you who missed it, Carole will be doing 2 more workshops (one primary and one intermediate) at February’s District Day.

Number Talk Essential

We place a lot of emphasis with the parents and caregivers of our early learners to talk and read to their children–but what about number talk? Recent studies have discovered that number talk is an important component of early learning.  How can we get parents involved in number talk? What is your school doing to engage parents in this crucial numeracy task?