Sometime in the past, I was approached by academics in the Faculty of Arts to discuss the numeracy skills of the students in their faculty. They wanted to discuss how they might include numeracy skills in some of their courses across all the degrees they teach. It was a lot bigger than the MLC could reasonably do, but I said I would certainly be able to do a small thing in a few courses, and certainly help their students in the MLC itself when they came to talk.
Then in January 2019, almost out of the blue, I was sitting down at a meeting with the Faculty of Arts Associate Dean Learning & Teaching, and the course coordinator for their core first year course called “The Enquiring Mind”. We were talking about how I might run a workshop for their students to introduce the importance to numerical skills for Arts students. We agreed on Week 4 of semester, and then I walked away into the Summer School exam period and O’Week and the crazy beginning-of-semester rush, with ideas percolating in the back of my mind for what I could possibly do in an hour.
You can read the rest of this blog post in PDF form here.
Also, I thought I would collect together the resources if you want a closer look at them.
- Powerpoint I used in the class
- Squeetles resources:
- Video recording of one of the tutorials from the week , if you’d like to see how I went about leading the activities and discussion live.
- The tweets I made while planning these activities in two sprawling threads here and here .
- The tweets I made reflecting on my daily experience while doing the tutorials .
Thanks for reading.