Numerical Reasoning

The aims of this module are sixfold: Firstly, to enhance each student’s understanding of their concepts of number and numerical value(s). Secondly, to develop the ability to perform numerical operations. Thirdly, students will more easily increase their respective understandings of quantification, and of their generalisation of numerical operations to new contexts. Fourthly, students will consolidate their ability to identify different shapes, layouts and spatial contiguities, and to form significant mental maps, navigation plans and perspective models of reality in their ‘mind’s eye’. Fifthly, to significantly improve and continually practice the re-representation of geometric spaces and their contents, spatial relationships and spatial reasoning. Lastly, students will develop a keen ability to design and generate a variety of ways to represent (and re-represent) any given data in graphical forms, and an advanced understanding of how to read tables and graphs as may be produced in support of particular arguments and conclusions.