028289 Numeracy for Lifelong and Lifewide Learning - Numeracy as a Lifelong and Lifewide Resource

Detailed requirements for Assessment Task 2: Numeracy as a lifelong and lifewide resource

The task:

1. Select and describe a specific learner group and their context, and a social issue of likely concern to these learners and their
2. Design two learning activities based on the chosen social issue and argue how these can be used to develop critical numeracy among learners in this group.
3. Theoretically justify the pedagogical effectiveness of the

Objectives: b, c and d Weight: 50%

Length: 1500 words excluding reference list Due: 9.00pm Saturday 28 May 2022

Background: Numeracy can be a lifelong and lifewide resource: numeracy development and use occurs throughout a person’s life, and in many different domains of their life, not just in education.

Aim: To produce a report showing the development and pedagogical justification from a critical numeracy perspectives, of numeracy learning activities that address a social issue of relevance to the lives of a learner group.

Organsiation of the report:

Part 1) Describe the learner group and identify the social issue. Choose a specific learner group and identify a social issue that is likely to be of relevance to them.

Your learner group can be a hypothetical group. The description (approx. 200 words) should include:

• Age profile
• Size of the group
• Gender
• Socio-economic profile
• Cultural and linguistic profile
• Learner goals and needs
• The program in which they are enrolled (e.g. a year 3 geography class in the NSW state school system; Adult Migrant English program) and the key learning outcomes of the program to which the activities can be linked.

The social issue should be ‘real’. You must explain, with reference to the information about the learner group, why it is likely to be of relevance to the learners (approx. 300 words).

Part 2) Design and describe two learning activities based on the chosen social issue and argue how these can be used to develop critical numeracy among learners in this group. Include teacher procedures, student instructions and supporting materials for each of the learning activities in separate Appendices (approx. 700 words).

Your written text must include:

1. Outlines of each of the learning activities and how they will be
2. Explanations of how the learning activities contribute to the learners’ critical numeracy development, including understanding of the social issue on which the activities are
3. Explanations of mathematical knowledge and skills that the learners will develop, and how these build on what you have assumed the learners already know about related mathematical knowledge and

Part 3) Theoretically justify the pedagogical effectiveness of the activities. Analyse and argue, with reference to subject readings, how the learning activities support critical numeracy development for the learner group (approx. 500 words).

Your written text must:

1. Explain the rationale of the learning activities as effective pedagogical resources to develop learners’ critical
2. Make strong and clear links between specific aspects of the learning activities with theoretical ideas from subject readings.
3. Show that you have a clear understanding of the concept of critical

Reference list Appendices

Referencing: A minimum of 4 subject readings must be cited and included in the reference list. Each in-text citation must include a page number that supports the specific point you make in your writing – whether you are quoting directly from the source or paraphrasing. Your in-text citations and reference list must be formatted in APA v7 style. The library provides an APA style guides: https://www.lib.uts.edu.au/help/referencing/apa-referencing-guide

Standards: Ensure your writing maintains a formal, academic register with a minimum of 6 readings from the subject, all cited correctly. As academic writing and citations are hurdle requirements for this task any work that has not been proofread for spelling, punctuation and grammatical accuracy and/or APA v7 referencing that is not used accurately for in-text citations and the reference list will not be assessed.

Work that does not meet the required standard of academic writing will have one opportunity to be resubmitted with corrections within one week of notification. Resubmitted work will receive a maximum grade of a 50% Pass.