[Maths-Education] Money counts..or money talks?

[Candia Morgan]

There is Marilyn Frankentstein's 'Relearning mathematics' which has 
this sort of stuff, though aimed primarily at adult learners.

You may also have seen the article 'Not for the classroom' by Jon 
MacKernon in a recent Mathematics Teaching which contains some 
provocative statistical sources - though we might want to challenge 
the assumption that these are *not* for the classroom.

Candia

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>I have just come across two UK publications
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>"Money counts" by BEAM and the Financial Services authority  which claims
>to be developing financial capability in the primary school linked to the
>numeracy strategy.
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>Another is a published by the "4 learning and maths year 20002" (never
>heard of them myself). this is called "Your family counts".
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>Both books give classroom resources purporting to develop childrens and
>families numeracy by looking at matters financial.
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>Nothing in these books seems to be developing in children the real values
>of money - i.e. the issues of disadvantage, poverty, social injustice,
>usury, etc. etc.
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>I am interested in thinking about whether some of us could put something
>together (e.g. "Money Talks" or "It's only being really rich that matters")
>that consists of activities, examples etc. that raise the critical aspects
>and uses of mathematics. There might of course be a wealth (ooops) of
>resources out there of which i am  unfamiliar, but it strikes me as
>potentially useful to consider giving teachers some tasks that raises real
>social questions about the way in which poverty is both unevenly
>distributed, how poverty is spread, how it costs the poor more to live than
>it costs the rich and all that stuff.
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>Is anyone interested, or does anyone have ideas??
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>Best wishes,
>Peter
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