Date/Time
Date(s) - Mon - 31 Aug
8:00 am - 3:30 pm
Categories
Higher Education Numeracy ≠ Basic Mathematics
31st August 2015
Hotel School: DUT
Programme
Time
08:00 – 08:30 Registration and refreshments
08:30 – 08:45
Welcome and introductions
08:45 – 09:15 Prof Ahmed Bawa
VC: DUT
“Letters, numbers and what we do with them”
09:15 – 10.15 Robert Prince
UCT
“Educational Testing For Learning: How Might The Profiling Of The Present Day Student’s Numeracy Proficiency Be Used To Support Teaching And Learning”
10:15 – 10:45 Tea
10:45 – 11:45
Pamela Vale
“Embedding numeracy practices in post-school vocational curricula: A case study of TVET Engineering students’ learning of measurement”
11:45 – 12:15 Shoba Rathilal
“There’s nothing BASIC about Higher Education Numeracy”
12: 15 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 15:30
Robert Prince
“Is there quantitative literacy (higher education numeracy) lurking in your course? – A workshop”
Looking forward to seeing you and your staff at the symposium. Please confirm attendance with Zodidi on ZodidiN@dut.ac.za by 26th August 2015