1. fno.org Numbers as Story Tellers Why do we need them? Can we trust them? How do we get to know them well? http://www.fno.org/oct04/numeracy.ppt.htm

2. fno.org What’s the story here?

3. fno.org What’s the story here? Founding Dates of NZ Wineries 1975 1980 1973 1974 1943 1902 1947 1942 1937 1983 1934 1936 1935 1902 1937 1961 1979 1969 1976 1925 1922 1937 1973 1933 1948 1944 1904 1981 1872 1918 1860 1960 1876 1980 1967 1974 1977 1979 1981 1978

4. fno.org Do Numbers Ever Lie? “Life is getting better!”

5. fno.org Maths vs. Numeracy The doing Memorized patterns Cooking by recipe ------ vs. ------- Figuring stuff out Solving unusual problems The bigger picture of literacies and understanding Cooking for real Weaving webs of meaning

6. fno.org Numbers: What are they good for? Counting Describing Measuring Mixing Building Cooking Planning Predicting Accounting Selling Understanding Digging to China? Finding the difficult truth? Telling stories

7. fno.org Why bother? Consumer issues Citizenship issues Employment issues Invention and discovery issues Others?

8. fno.org Home-Made Collections Pets Patterns of behavior Interviews Experiments Observations

9. fno.org BOM What can we do with all those numbers?

10. fno.org What are the Questions? The BOM provides lessons that might prove useful.

11. fno.org Serial Questioners

12. fno.org Exploring vs. Describing What’s going on? What’s the story? What is really happening?

13. fno.org Figuring Out vs. Describing Why do you suppose?

14. fno.org Predicting vs. Describing What are the chances that X will happen?

15. fno.org Critiquing vs. Accepting Challenging Debunking Wondering Analyzing Life is getting better!

16. fno.org Number Stories

17. fno.org Numeracy in the News http://ink.news.com.au/merc ury/mathguys/mercury.ht m

18. fno.org Chance and Data from MANSW http://hsc.csu.edu.au/pta/mansw/chance.htm

19. fno.org EDNA Theme Page http://www.edna.edu.au/edna/page456.html

20. fno.org Crunching Numbers Exploring the World with Data http://fnopress.com/CRUNCH.htm