1st Edition

Numeracy Across the Curriculum Research-based strategies for enhancing teaching and learning

272 Pages
by Routledge

270 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
About the authors
List of figures, tables and case studies
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
Acknowledgements
References
Index

Biography

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.