1st Edition

Numeracy and Mathematics Across the Primary Curriculum Building Confidence and Understanding

By David Coles, Tim Copeland Copyright 2002
112 Pages
by David Fulton Publishers

112 Pages
by David Fulton Publishers

The key to good primary teaching of numeracy and mathematics is confidence in mathematical knowledge and its relevance to the real world. In particular, effective implementation of the National Numeracy Strategy requires student teachers, primary teachers and mathematics coordinators to realize the place of mathematics across the range of National Curriculum subjects. This book explores... Read more
How and why is mathematics important to other subjects?; mathematical problems from and in science; mathematics and evidence for the past; geography - a place for number; English - patterns of language and patterns in language; PE - building geometrical thinking into playing games; music - notes and number; D & T - calculating design, measuring, approximation and scale drawings; art - ratio and proportion, tessellation, translation, rotation and reflection

Biography

David Coles and Tim Copeland are Senior Lecturers in Primary Education at the Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education.