ALM 11

Proceedings of ALM11 Kungälv, Sweden 2004

The proceedings of ALM11 are available in the following sections.

Complete Proceedings.

Cover  51kb
Contents and Plenary lectures  3.2Mb
The meaning of Bildung in contemporary societyBernt Gustavsson

“I said I taught the horse to sing: I didn’t say it learnt”: Issues underlying appropriate training for vocational uses of Mathematics.

Michaela Inglis

Adult Education from a Swedish perspective

Lars Gustafsson and Lars Mowitz

Bildung: a pseudojustification or a hidden reason for adult mathematics?

Lene Oestergard Johansen

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Topic Groups  1.7Mb
Developing a theoretical framework for adults learning mathematics

Diana Coben, Juergen Maasz, Marianne Nolte and Katherine Safford-Ramus

Mathematics Education for the workplace

Michaela Inglis andLisbeth Lindberg

Affective Factors in Adult Mathematics Learning

Wolfgang Schlôglmann

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Paper Presentations I  2.5Mb
Adult Numeracy in Austraian WorkplacesGail E. FitzSimons

Investigating academic numeracy in non-mathematics courses at university

Linda Galligan and Janet A Taylor

Mathematics intergrated in a job-function

Torkel Haugan Hansen

Flexible Learning

Eigil Peter Hansen

Teaching innumerate adults: using everyday life experience to develop proceptual thinking

Jens Langpaap

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Paper presentations II  2.7Mb
Essential Qualities and Differences in Students ‘ Mathematical Self-System StructuresMarja-Liisa Malmivuori

Matching professional development approaches to the needs of tutors of adult numeracy

Terry Maqurie and John O’Donoghue

Challenging mathematical beliefs of beginning primary school teacher education students with ICTs

Kay Owens

Understanding workplace mathematics from a curriculum development perspective

Geoff Wake

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Workshops  2.1Mb
Realistic problem solving for middle school teachersAna Lucia Braz Diaz

Research and development in adult numeracy in the National Research and Development Centre (NRDC) in England

Diana Coben

Commonsense in Adult Mathematics Education

Noel Colleran and, John O ‘Donoghue

A review of level 4 training for adult numeracy specialists

Graham Griffiths and David Kaye

“Measurement wasn’t taught when they built the pyramids”

Alison Tomlin, Mark Baxter, Eamonn Leddy, Liz Richards, Topo Wresniwiro and Diana Coben

Group dynamics and the impact on learning

Ann McDonnell

Developing an observation schedule for the teaching of adult numeracy

Valerie Rhodes, John Swain, Diana Coben and Margaret Brown

Adult motivation behind returning to study numeracy in formal setting

Jon Swain, Elizabeth Baker, Debbie Holder and Barbara Newmarch

Intervention strategies that foster student success

Katherine Safford-Ramus

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Discussion Groups  2.0Mb
Getting adult numeracy tutors to engage in professional development – international approachesTheresa Maquire, Lena Lindeskov and Valerie Seabright