Activity ideas
Does your group want to run activities but needs inspiration on including numeracy? Check out these ideas!
Woodworking and DIY
Consider running woodworking or DIY sessions. These activities involve numeracy skills like measuring, calculating angles and lengths, and planning.
Arts and Crafts
Try running jewellery making, weaving, painting, or other arts and crafts like pyrography or quilling. These activities involve numeracy skills like measuring, calculating angles, and mixing colors in percentages.
Sports
Ball and team sports, running and exercise classes are popular. These activities involve numeracy skills like measuring distances, calculating calories, monitoring heart rates and determining angles.
Board and card games
Monopoly, Chess, Scrabble, and card games are social activities for adults. Numeracy skills include counting scores and moves, and calculating game money and pieces.
Watersports
Kayaking, paddleboarding, swimming, and sailing involve numeracy skills such as understanding angles, wind speed, wave height, currents, pressures and speed.
Outdoor activities
Walking / hiking, gardening, outdoor building and cycling/mountain biking involve numeracy skills like understanding angles and speed, calculating space, reading maps for distances and coordinates.
Cooking
Cooking and preparation are great ways to engage the community. Numeracy skills involved include shopping on a budget, portioning recipes, measuring ingredients, converting between imperial and metric units, weighing, working with percentages, and more.