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Numeracy for adults: building skills with online learning links

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This report describes a project that supplemented workplace learning with online numeracy activities. It found that simple online tasks that trainees completed in their own time helped them to improve their numeracy skills.

Author(s): Gill Thomas & Jenny Ward

Date Published: June 2010

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