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ERIC Number: EJ578795
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1998
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-1441-0559
Generic Numeracies of the Shop Floor: Numeracy for Decision Making.
Buckingham, Elizabeth
Literacy and Numeracy Studies, v8 n1 p81-97 1998
A study of numeracy practices in metal engineering companies found that, rather than increasingly being shared, decision making of workers and managers rarely overlapped. Basic numeracy has come to mean a way of knowing that differs from the competence needed to pass mathematics examinations. (SK)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Foreign Countries, Job Skills, Manufacturing Industry, Numeracy
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Australia; Job Related Mathematics