Maths Anxiety/ Number Confidence Workshops
Looking for a way to start discussions around adult numeracy in your organisation, workplace or community group? Look no further than our Maths Anxiety / Number Confidence workshops.
Anyone can experience maths anxiety, or fear of maths, including adults and children. Although maths anxiety can affect your performance, it’s not connected to intelligence or ability in maths. Two in three students who worry about maths will eventually succeed in the subject.
Our Maths Anxiety workshops help raise awareness of maths anxiety, whether it’s in the workplace, learning environments or the home. We look at how maths anxiety might affect work, learning and day-to-day life, exploring the possible causes of maths anxiety before going on to explore simple steps we can take to address maths anxiety in ourselves and others.
Budgeting Courses
Our budgeting courses can be adapted to meet the needs of various groups, including the self-employed, job seekers, single parents or those on low incomes. We focus on finding budgeting approaches that meet the needs of the individual through exploring various methods such as The Envelope System, using a spreadsheet, budgeting apps, discussing savings that can be made through payment methods, and much more.
Critical Numeracy: Big Number Numbness
A million seconds is around 12 days; a billion seconds is roughly 32 years; a trillion seconds is almost 32,000 years. Big numbers are all around us and are routinely used by politicians to try and win our favour around spending priorities. However, most people struggle to fully understand the difference between a million pounds and a billion pounds, and it can be difficult to work out whether a candidate’s promise of a million pounds for a local hospital is a good thing or actually part of a raft of cuts.
Our Critical Numeracy courses help participants to explore the numbers that matter to them, whether they want to learn how to gather and present their own statistics, or make sense of the graphs, infographics and numbers that politicians use to persuade us to vote for them.
Introduction to Pupil Support
Our popular Introduction to Pupil Support courses have run across Scotland, from the Highlands to Fife and Glasgow. Courses can be run online or in-person and come in 6-week and 10-week versions.
These courses are ideal for anyone who is thinking about getting into work in Pupil Support in primary schools. They help groups of learners to explore the role, and start learning about the Curriculum for Excellence and the Scottish Government’s Pupil Support Staff framework. The focus is on supporting children’s numeracy learning through play and structured learning as well as by supporting and modelling a growth mindset. The course also supports participants to get their CV ready for job applications and practice their interview techniques.
