(eBook PDF) Numeracy Across the Curriculum

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product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1760297887
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1760297886
• Author: Merrilyn Goos , Vince Geiger, Shelley Dole, Helen Forgasz, & 1 more

Being numerate involves more than mastering basic mathematics. Numeracy connects the mathematics learned at school with out-of-school situations that require capabilities such as problem solving, critical judgment, and sense-making related to non-mathematical contexts. This book provides prospective and practising teachers with practical, research-based strategies for embedding numeracy across the primary and secondary school curriculum.

Based on the authors’ ten-year research program, the text explains what numeracy is and how numeracy has developed as an educational goal. It describes in detail the five dimensions of the authors’ model: attention to real-life contexts; application of mathematical knowledge; use of physical, representational and digital tools; the promotion of positive dispositions towards the use of mathematics to solve problems encountered in day-to-day life; and a critical orientation to interpreting mathematical results and making evidence-based judgements. There is guidance on how to embed numeracy across all subjects within the curriculum, how to assess numeracy learning and how to deal with challenges and dilemmas including working with discipline boundaries and developing support resources.

table of contents:

1. Understanding numeracy
2. Towards numeracy across the curriculum
3. Numeracy in the 21st century
4. Numeracy demands
5. Numeracy opportunities
6. Planning for numeracy across the curriculum
7. Whole-school approaches to numeracy
8. Assessing numeracy learning
9. Challenges in enhancing numeracy

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