DOMAINS OF COMMUNICATION

NUMERACY LEVEL 1 - SAMPLE ACTIVITIES

Personal and community

• –  Estimates lengths of familiar objects using metric units, e.g. a person’s height, lengths of fabric or lengths of rooms

• –  Locates and adds the whole dollar price of two items in an electrical goods catalogue or advertisement

• –  Decides whether change should be expected when purchasing items, e.g. buying a coffee and paying with $10

• –  Discusses specific information located in a simple chart or diagram, e.g. comments on the most popular fruit eaten by school children presented in a simple bar graph in a newspaper, or discusses the results of a recent newspaper or TV poll

• –  Identifies and discusses changes in pricing, e.g. increased costs of car parking at a sporting venue or workplace

• –  Identifies and discusses with a group the differences in pricing of similar objects, e.g. soft drinks bought from different venues – supermarket and vending machine

Workplace and employment

• –  Gives oral directions, using common language of space, distance and direction, for getting from one familiar place to another, e.g. directions for a new worker to get to the canteen

• –  Identifies and compares familiar items, their quantities, sizes and costs, e.g. checks the weight and/or length of a product against a job ticket

• –  Recognises and knows safe handling weights of familiar objects, e.g. gives the go ahead for a fellow worker to shift a package, box or pallet with appropriate equipment

• –  Reads time from a digital clock

• –  Uses a calculator to add whole numbers of stock of familiar items in a workplace store

• –  Reads digital weight scales and accurately copies onto a recording sheet

• –  Names and compares common two dimensional shapes in familiar situations, e.g. compares two different road or warning signs

• –  Understands time-to-task allocations in a work instruction

• –  Uses a calendar or planner to record information, e.g. meeting times and dates

• –  Discusses specific information located in a simple graph or chart related to work, e.g. simple production report or lost time injuries

Education and training

• –  Knows the costs of public transport to get to classes/training

• –  Compares and discusses with classmates what metric units are appropriate for measuring a range of characteristics or features relevant to the course being studied, e.g. personal height and weight in a fitness course, or the mass and volume of ingredients in a hospitality course

• –  Uses a calendar to record information related to education or training dates, e.g. class term dates or due dates for assessments

• –  Reads times in familiar texts, e.g. class times

• –  Gives oral directions, using common language of space, distance and direction, for getting from one familiar place to another, e.g. directions to a classmate to get to the canteen or a snack shop

• –  Discusses specific information located in simple graph or chart related to the course being studied, e.g. in a chart published in a recent newspaper or a TV report about the latest political poll