LANTITE Numeracy study guide
LANTITE Numeracy · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The Literacy and Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education Students - widely known as LANTITE - is the assessment that initial teacher education students in Australia sit to demonstrate that their own literacy and numeracy are in the top 30 per cent of the adult population. ACER lists the test among the programs it hosts, and candidates generally encounter it as a computer-delivered assessment taken during their teaching degree. The numeracy component, which is the focus of this page, is organised around three domains: number and algebra; measurement and geometry; and statistics and probability. Questions are set in contexts a teacher meets in schools - reading class data, interpreting timetables, working with budgets, scaling recipes, judging whether a stated answer is reasonable - rather than in abstract mathematics. The LANTITE Numeracy study guide has 3 sections and about 947 words.
01Number and algebra
Number questions reward fast, correct arithmetic and proportional reasoning more than formal algebra. You need: the order of operations (brackets, indices, then × and ÷ left to right, then + and −); confident work with directed numbers; conversion between fractions, decimals and percentages; ratio and rate problems (speed, unit price, dosage-style rates); direct proportion; substitution into simple formulas; and one- and two-step linear equations.
300 words, about 2 min02Measurement and geometry
Measurement questions are mostly unit conversion and formula selection. Learn the factors: 1 km = 1000 m, 1 m = 100 cm, 1 kg = 1000 g, 1 L = 1000 mL, 1 m³ = 1000 L, plus the squared and cubed versions (1 m² = 10 000 cm², 1 m³ = 1 000 000 cm³).
325 words, about 2 min03Statistics and probability
Statistics questions test interpretation as much as calculation. You must read tables, bar and line graphs accurately and notice truncated axes or unusual scales; choose and compute mean, median, mode and range; and know that the mean is pulled by outliers while the median resists them.
322 words, about 2 min