{"id":1925,"date":"2014-05-09T10:11:02","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T10:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/?p=1925"},"modified":"2014-05-09T10:11:02","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T10:11:02","slug":"rse-young-academy-of-scotland-numeracy-counts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/2014\/05\/09\/rse-young-academy-of-scotland-numeracy-counts\/","title":{"rendered":"RSE Young Academy of Scotland – Numeracy Counts"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Part of the remit of The\u00a0Young Academy of Scotland’s Excellence in Education<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0Working Group is to “draw upon YAS expertise to develop teaching resources that enable teachers to make full use of the interdisciplinary possibilities of CfE [Curriculum for Excellence].”\u00a0<\/p>\n

This resource, working within the Numeracy curriculum area, utilised the broad multi-disciplinary nature of the YAS membership to show how numeracy matters in the everyday lives and work of Scotland\u2019s emerging leaders from the disciplines of science and humanities, the professions, the arts, business and civil society.<\/p>\n

Through this YAS resource learners can find out how Cardiologist Marc Dweck uses numeracy in the diagnosis and treatment of heartattacks, discover how astrophysicist Catherine Heymans uses spread sheets when buying a new mobile phone and, most importantly, find out why ‘Numeracy Counts!’<\/p>\n

Access the resources here – http:\/\/bit.ly\/MqEQrJ<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Part of the remit of The\u00a0Young Academy of Scotland’s Excellence in Education\u00a0Working Group is to “draw upon YAS expertise to develop teaching resources that enable teachers to make full use of the interdisciplinary possibilities of CfE [Curriculum for Excellence].”\u00a0 This … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30458,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[626,249,608,6246,631],"tags":[4200,4835,674329],"class_list":["post-1925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-numeracy","category-sciences","category-stemcentralinmotion","category-technologies","tag-partnership-working","tag-skills-for-learning-life-work","tag-stemcentralinmotion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1925"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1928,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925\/revisions\/1928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}