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(2017) Nursing students’ readiness for the numeracy needs of their program: Students’ perspective. Adults Learning Mathematics: An International Journal, 12(1), 27-38.  \nNursing Students’Readiness for the Numeracy Needs of Their Program: Students’ Perspective  \nLinda Galligan  \nUniversity of Southern Queensland  \n\u003C[linda.galligan@usq.edu.au](linda.galligan@usq.edu.au)>  \nAnita Frederiks  \nUniversity of Southern Queensland  \n\u003C[Anita.frederiks@usq.edu.au](Anita.frederiks@usq.edu.au)>  \nAndrew P. Wandel  \nUniversity of Southern Queensland  \n\u003C[Andrew.wandel@usq.edu.au](Andrew.wandel@usq.edu.au)>  \nClare Robinson  \nUniversity of Southern Queensland  \n\u003C[Clare.robinson@usq.edu.au](Clare.robinson@usq.edu.au)>  \nShahab Abdulla  \nUniversity of Southern Queensland  \n\u003C[Shahab.abdulla@usq.edu.au](Shahab.abdulla@usq.edu.au)>  \nZanubia Hussain  \nUniversity of Southern Queensland  \n\u003C[Zanubia.hussain@usq.edu.au](Zanubia.hussain@usq.edu.au)>  \nAbs tract  \nNumeracy needs of nursing students are often underestimated by students when they enter university. Even when students are aware of the mathematics required, students underestimate or overestimate the skills they  \nVolume 12(1)– 2017 27  \nhave. Research has highlighted the mathematics and numeracy skills required of nurses and nursing students and numerous studies have tested these skills. Research highlighted in this paper investigates students’perceptions of these skills generally, and students’ retrospective reflection after having finished a course. Results indicate both an underestimation and overestimation of students’ skills when compared to students’results.  \nKey words: nursing, skills, numeracy  \nIntroduction  \nIn nursing, the numeracy skills required are considerable. Research with nurses (Blais and Bath 1992; Hoyles et al. 2001) and nursing students (Hutton 1997; Gillies 2003; Galligan 2011) has highlighted the links between nursing skills, particularly drug calculation skills, and underlying mathematics skills. These skills include: number; ratio and proportion; scale; decimals and fractions; rates; measurement; algebra; graphing; and problem-solving. Many researchers have highlighted the proportion of nursing students who have poor skills in these areas (Hoyles et al. 2001) . Others have highlighted university students’ difficulties with reading graphs (Kemp and Kissane 2010); understanding algebra (Pierce and Stacey 2001) or reading skills, particularly with word problems (Newman 1983) . These conceptual barriers are exacerbated at some universities where there is a high proportion of mature-aged students who have been away from formal study for a number of years. While there has been studies investigating nursing students’ confidence in mathematics (e.g. Glaister 2007), to date we have not found any research that has investigated students’ opinions of their skills after their study.  \nA four year project, based at a regional university in Australia, aimed to investigate students’perceptions of their mathematical readiness. At this university, the percentage of mature aged students is considerably higher than the sector (58% to 24%) and the percentage of those aged 30 and over is about 45% compared to the sector at about 15% . The number of students identified as low Socio-Economic Status (SES) is 34%, double that of the sector at 17% . The project investigated students’ perceptions of their readiness for the quantitative skills needed in their courses after having completed the course. It also correlated this with a mathematics assessment of student readiness, completed within one course. In our preliminary results (Abdulla et al. 2013), we found up to 30% of students in business, education and nursing felt poorly prepared for some of the quantitative components in their courses. However, this was a small preliminary study and did not look at individual courses within a program. 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