TEP387 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: New South Wales Education Standards Authority, Australian Curriculum, Numeracy

• School: Macquarie University
• Department: Teacher Education
• Course: TEP387
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Questions on image that tap into 3-guide reading levels: literal/interpretative/applied, explicit/implicit/inferential, here/hidden/head. Where is the girl in the image: explicit questions, implicit questions, inferential questions. Enforce a belief that they can do it: consider the dispositions that you encourage your students to develop. Numeracy is context specific: an individual is numerate (or not) on the basis of their performance solving problems and interpreting and producing text, arguments and conclusions within a given context. Numeracy in schools in just that numeracy in the context of schooling. Numeracy is relative: judgements of relative levels of numeracy needs to be made within a context. Knowledge of, and skills with, maths are not sufficient to assure numeracy: describing levels of numeracy is possible in relation to particular situation. These levels are not necessarily graduated in terms of the levels of sophistication of maths used: that is, individuals are more or less numerate when solving problems hen cooking, or planning finances, and so on.