Numeracy for Teaching

Mental Calculations, Changing Proportions to Percentages
Mental Calculations, Changing More Proportions to Percentages
Decimals and Percentages
Understanding Data Presented in Tables
Two-Way Tables for Comparing Two Sets of Data
Bar Charts and Frequency Tables for Discrete Data
Bar Charts for Grouped Discrete Data
Finding a Fraction of a Quantity
Fractions to Decimals and Vice Versa
Expressing a Percentage in Fraction Notation
The Commutative Law
The Associative Law
The Distributive Law
Using a Four-Function Calculator, Precedence of Operators
Using a Four-Function Calculator for Money Calculations
Using the Memory on a Four-Function Calculator
Using a Calculator to Express a Proportion as a Percentage
Rounding Answers
Very Large and Very Small Numbers
Mental Calculators, Multiplication Strategies
Mental Calculators, Division Strategies
Mental Calculators, Finding a Percentage of a Quantity
Finding a Percentage of a Quantity Using a Calculator
Adding and Subtracting Decimals
Mental Calculators, Adding Lists
More Multiplications Strategies
More Division Strategies
Multiplication with Decimals
Division with Decimals
Using Approximations to Check Your Answers
Mental Calculations, Time
Knowledge of Metric Units of Length and Distance
Knowledge of Metric Units of Area and Solid Volume
Knowledge of Other Metric Units
Mental Calculations, Money
Simplifying Ratios
Sharing a Quantity in a Given Ratio
Increasing or Decreasing by a Percentage
Expressing an Increase or Decrease as a Percentage
Finding the Original Value after a Percentage Increase or Decrease
Calculating Mean
Modes
Medians
Upper and Lower Quartiles
Measures of Spread, Range and Inter-quartile Range
Box-and-Whisker Diagrams
More Box-and-Whisker Diagrams
Percentiles
Reading Scatter Graphs
Scatter Graphs and Correlation
Conversion Graphs
Interpreting Pie Charts
Substituting into Formulas
Weighted Means
Combining Means or Percentages from Two or More Sets of

Derek Haylock is an education consultant and writer in the field of mathematics education. He is a Senior Fellow in Education at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, where he worked for over 30 years in primary teacher training and in education research. He is a major author in education, with a large number of published books and chapters in books. His best-selling Mathematics Explained for Primary Teachers (Sage) has been the leader in the field for many years, with a fourth edition published in 2010. Derek's work is characterized by a commitment to explain mathematics in simple and accessible ways and to enable the subject to be taught and learnt with understanding and confidence. He is married, with two grown-up daughters and three grandsons. Outside of mathematics, he is a Free Church elder, plays the trumpet, and is passionate about classical music, cricket, walking (quickly) and cycling (slowly).

Derek Haylock has a website at: http://derek-haylock.blogspot.com/

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