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Adult Literacy and Basic Skills Unit, London (England). – 1984
This collection of papers focuses on numeracy education for adults. In a paper entitled "Functional Numeracy," Terry Riley questions the underlying assumptions of functional numeracy and suggests that the term has often been distorted and oversimplified. Margeret Moss, in her paper "The Language of Numeracy," stresses that…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Basic Skills
