Working out energy bills and direct debits

Smodlet

Well, no feedback from National Numeracy about our suggestions for explaining the alchemy of working out energy bills... Lack of feedback seems to be a bit of a theme for them if this thread is anything to go by: https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/73404111#Comment_73404111

I was just gearing up to do their challenge but I won't bother now. It seems they want a whole load of personal information before you can even look at the challenge to see if you want to do it and, when asked why, they respond so that they can email certificates for participants to print out and hang on their wall... What are we, five?

bonus2010

They’re not any worse than any other website includes MSE here for asking for an email address or name etc. to register with.

By giving your email address, it allows for you to interrupt the test, save your progress then resume later by signing in. It’s a long test.

I found it interesting and showed holes here and there in my knowledge and what I’d forgotten.

As for names, just give them a different name..sure I called myself Donald Trump
Same with emails use a dud that you don't bother about incased you're spammed.
(I haven't received any spam any way)lol

National_Numeracy

Hi Smodlet and all,

We have been reading your responses with interest - it's been great to see so much conversation around numeracy!

I'm sorry you're missing our response - we did thank matelodave for the original response which showed how they'd work it out, but we know there are lots of approaches (as we've seen from this conversation!) and our aim is to get people thinking for themselves and discussing approaches.

As you can see on the thread you posted, we do respond to queries where we can. Of course we understand not everyone will want to create an account on the Challenge website, but having individual accounts for users allows us to tailor the support and resources to each learner. The demographic information we collect also informs the rest of our work as we campaign to improve numeracy in the UK, looking at factors such as age and gender.

We've really enjoyed seeing all your responses on this thread, though - a very interesting debate about the state of numeracy in the UK!

Smodlet

bonus2010 wrote: »

As for names, just give them a different name..sure I called myself Donald Trump
Same with emails use a dud that you don't bother about incased you're spammed.
(I haven't received any spam any way)lol

Thank you, bonus2010, you have inspired me. :rotfl: