ED1635 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Australian Curriculum, Numeracy, Problem Solving
Mathematics - Tutorial 2 - Week 2
Numeracy and Mental Computation - Use of dice, dominoes and cards
Questions from the Text
- What would your response be to someone who told you that numeracy was all about number?
- Numeracy is not a set of low-level basic mathematical skills, it includes the disposition to think
mathematically where mathematical skills and knowledge are integral to the thinking processes
employed in specific contexts
- Numeracy is a life skill allowing us to cope with every day situations
- Depends on the context in which we apply it
Dominoes
- One-to-one correspondence
- Recognition of dot patterns
- Addition and subtraction
- Patterning
- Problem solving
Readings
Textbook
Chapter 9 - Page 180-199
Numerative Behaviour
- Numerative individuals are able to participate more effectively and successfully in wider community and
social spheres
Teaching Challenges - Numeracy and Socio-cultural contexts
- For many students, the numeracy and mathematical experiences provided at school are not socially or
culturally consistent with their home life
- Teachers need to consider socio-cultural contexts in planning for numeracy learning
Extra Reading
http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/GeneralCapabilities/Pdf/Numeracy
- The Australian Curriculum helps students become numerate as they develop the knowledge and skills to
use mathematics confidently across other learning areas at school and in their lives more broadly
- Numeracy involves students in recognising and understanding the role of mathematics in the world and
having the dispositions and capacities to use mathematical knowledge and skills purposefully
- A numerate population is critical in ensuring the nation’s ongoing prosperity, productivity and workforce
participation
Scope of the Numeracy
- Numeracy encompasses the knowledge, skills, behaviours and dispositions that students need to use
mathematics in a wide range of situations
- Students have opportunities to transfer their mathematical knowledge and skills to contexts outside the
mathematics classroom
Numeracy Across the Curriculum
- Students need to recognise that mathematics is constantly used outside the mathematics classroom and
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Document Summary
Numeracy and mental computation - use of dice, dominoes and cards. Numeracy is not a set of low-level basic mathematical skills, it includes the disposition to think mathematically where mathematical skills and knowledge are integral to the thinking processes employed in specific contexts. Numeracy is a life skill allowing us to cope with every day situations. Depends on the context in which we apply it. Numerative individuals are able to participate more effectively and successfully in wider community and social spheres. For many students, the numeracy and mathematical experiences provided at school are not socially or culturally consistent with their home life. Teachers need to consider socio-cultural contexts in planning for numeracy learning. The australian curriculum helps students become numerate as they develop the knowledge and skills to use mathematics confidently across other learning areas at school and in their lives more broadly.
