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.
Key Features
- Explains what numeracy is and how it has developed as an educational goal.
- Describes the five dimensions of the authors' model:
- Attention to real-life contexts
- Application of mathematical knowledge
- Use of physical, representational and digital tools
- Promotion of positive dispositions towards the use of mathematics to solve day-to-day problems
- A critical orientation to interpreting mathematical results and making evidence-based judgements
- Provides guidance on how to embed numeracy across all subjects within the curriculum.
- Offers strategies for assessing numeracy learning and addressing challenges and dilemmas.
Additional Information
Based on the authors' ten-year research program, 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.
Specifications
- Merrilyn Goos is Professor of STEM Education, University of Limerick, Ireland and is an internationally recognized mathematics educator.
- Vince Geiger is Professor of Mathematics Education and STEM program director within the Learning Sciences Institute Australia at Australian Catholic University.
- Shelley Dole is Professor and Head of the School of Education at the University of the Sunshine Coast.
- Helen Forgasz is a Professor Emerita in the Faculty of Education, Monash University.
- Anne Bennison is a Lecturer in the School of Education at the University of the Sunshine Coast and recently completed her doctoral studies identifying ways to support teachers to embed numeracy across the curriculum.
