1 op de 6 inwoners in Nederland heeft moeite met gecijferdheid. Dit is een reden tot zorg, omdat dit de kans op kwetsbaarheid vergroot. Zo hebben mensen die problemen hebben met gecijferdheid vaker financiële problemen. Ze hebben minder kansen op de arbeidsmarkt en ze benoemen hun gezondheid vaker als …

Introduction: The contemporary scientific literature indicates that numeracy is a multifaceted concept. The ongoing societal and technological transformations underscore the imperative to re-evaluate the attributes characterizing a numerate individual and the strategic initiatives that policymakers should …

Conducting large calculations manually with pen and paper following prescribed procedures or algorithms has been diminishing in significance for some time. In most cultures, and for many years already, individuals employ digital instruments for such computational tasks, when confronted with them in daily …

LOWAN in gesprek met Kees Hoogland, lector Wiskundig en Analytisch Vermogen van Professionals aan de Hogeschool Utrecht. Zelf zegt hij dat hij al zijn hele leven is gefascineerd door hoe mensen omgaan met de kwantitatieve kant van de wereld. Daarom heeft hij wiskunde gestudeerd en is wiskundeleraar geworden …

To benefit from the social capabilities of a robot math tutor, instead of being distracted by them, a novel approach is needed where the math task and the robot's social behaviors are better intertwined. We present concrete design specifications of how children can practice math via a personal conversation …

Social robots have been introduced in different fields such as retail, health care and education. Primary education in the Netherlands (and elsewhere) recently faced new challenges because of the COVID-19 pandemic, lockdowns and quarantines including students falling behind and teachers burdened with …

Dit onderzoek is een exploratief onderzoek naar welke aspecten van belang zijn bij het interpreteren en begrijpen van hedendaagse informatiebronnen door mensen met beperkte basisvaardigheden.

We assess the incidence of numeracy skills mismatch in five countries: Belgium, Chile, Italy, Netherlands, and the United States of America. To do this, we make use of a new approach (Brun-Schamme & Rey, 2021), namely by identifying someone as being mismatched if the score for numeracy skills is outside …

Technology, data use, and digitisation are based on mathematical structures, and this permeates many aspects of our daily lives: apps, online activities, and all kinds of communication. Equipping people to deal with this mathematisation of society is a big challenge. Which competences are needed, which …

This paper explores the contributions of research to the field of adults learning mathematics (ALM) in the last twenty years. The results of the review of the literature on ALM show that the most cited studies that have been published in the last twenty years tend to focus on the field of numeracy to …