There are a number of elements that use or suggest you use exchange rates with numeracy students. The best site I have found for this is www.compareholidaymoney.com. They compare the best exchange rates for over eighty
(80) currencies including The Post Office and Marks & Spencer. The site is set up for tourists wanting to compare the amount of travel money they would get if thy wanted Euros or Dollars.

MSS1/L2.1

Photo and picture editor application is designed especially to edit your Photos, photos. Photo Editor is very fast and powerful Photo editing softwareⁱ for the Windows operating system. With its intuitive and beautiful Graphical User Interface, a great collection of painting tools, and simple-to-use photo correction tools Photo Editor is an excellent tool for Windows users who don’t quite need the features of Photoshop and other expenssive tools.

New!! Reading for Pleasure: Poster Pack
Spark discussions about maths with your free posters

The three A2 posters in this pack are for you to use in your literacy and language classrooms. They spark off discussion and debate with your learners about number and maths. As your learners take part in these conversations, they will be inspired to think about studying maths or numeracy. The posters give you an easy way to start talking about learners' maths skills, and to encourage them to consider enrolling on numeracy courses.
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Free!! Putting two and 2 together

www.freerice.com

A UN sponsored website where for every question you get right 10 grains of rice are donated.
The subjects covered are being added to all the time, but you can choose times tablesⁱ and basic maths (pre-algebra).

I have students practicing their timestablesⁱ each session and keeping a running total of the amount of rice they have earned.

This can spin off into other activities, charting their score for each day, weighing rice to find out how much their scores actually translate to in real rice etc.

Vocabulary, word recognition and phonics Rw/E1.1
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Skills, knowledge and understanding Example
Adults should be taught to:

1 . possess a limited, meaningful sight vocabulary of words, signs and symbols Social sight vocabulary.

Key words from Dolch list.

understand that written words carry meaning and that adults will already be familiar with many of the words they will meet in print, from their experience of spoken language

These worksheets are there to make it easy for tutors that may not know some of the less common features of Word to quickly and easily create resources tailored directly to the students’ needs or interests.

There are currently 4 sheets in the set
Capital Letter Practice
Capital Letters and Full Stops
Instant Cloze Exercises
Handwriting Practice

When to click or double click
How to cut, copy and paste

The other documents are work in progress and I will update them as and when I develop this set.

NIACE Annual Autumn Policy Conference
Local Power and Adult Learning:
What can adult learning do for local government?
Monday 1 December 2008, London, 10:00am - 3:40pm

http://www.niace.org.uk/Conferences/Conferences.htm

• How can adult learning support and extend the work of local authorities in developing vibrant, economically successful and socially inclusive communities for the twenty first century?

• How might government systems provide a framework for successful joining of learning and local government agendas at a time of system change?

New RARPA Training Dates (November - December 2008)

In response to changing policy context and building on our successful series of one-day RARPA training days for managers delivered since 2006, NIACE has developed two interrelated training programmes.

Each one-day training programme is based on the RARPA approach and the staged process:

Demonstrating Impact for Quality using the five-stage process (RARPA)
• Monday 24 November 2008, London
• Friday 28 November 2008, Birmingham

How to use the Spelling Pack as a CPD resource: a practical workshop
Thursday 6th November 2008, 9.30am - 3.45pm, London
-Are you responsible for initial teacher training or CPD for teachers of adults?
-Do the teachers you work with support adults to improve their spelling - in literacy classes or within other contexts?
-Are you looking for up-to-date resources to use for CPD in your organisation?