Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Series Editor's Preface; Author's Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction: Mathematics, the Difficult Subject; Developing Ideas and Methodologies for the Study; Overview of the Book; Mathematical Thinking in Context Among Adults; Recent British Surveys of Adult Numeracy; Conceptual Map and Research Questions; Survey Results for Performance and Context; Conclusions; Mathematics Performance and Social Difference; Social Class Differences; Conceptual Map and Research Questions
Summary
The crisis around teaching and learning mathematics and its use in everyday life and work relate to a number of issues. This book addresses these issues by looking at a number of key problems in maths education and numeracy