Numeracy

Course aim

To engage pre-service educators with understanding the concept of numeracy, its relationship with mathematics, its role in the contemporary curriculum and how numeracy is part of everyday life.

Course content

Perspectives of numeracy that underpin the Early Years Learning Framework and the Australian Curriculum including numeracy’s relationship with mathematics, thinking mathematically, cross curricula perspectives and the functional, socio-historical, technological and critical dimensions of numeracy. Role and impact of mathematics in pre-service educators’ personal, professional and civic lives through authentic contexts that involve data handling and financial mathematics and from contexts drawn from other learning areas. Concepts of attribute, quantity, data and shape of data. Thinking mathematically through comparing, sorting, classifying, representing and communicating.

Textbook(s)

Primary Middle specialisation: Van de Walle, J, Karp, K & Bay-Williams, J 2013, Elementary and middle school mathematics: teaching developmentally , 8th edition, Pearson, China

Primary specialisation: Reys, R, Rogers, A, Falle, J, Frid, S & Bennett, S 2013, Helping children learn mathematics, First Australian edition , John Wiley & Sons Australia, Milton, Qld

Prerequisite(s)

Nil

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Component	Duration
INTERNAL, MAGILL
Workshop	3 hours x 12 weeks
INTERNAL, MAWSON LAKES
Workshop	3 hours x 13 weeks
EXTERNAL, MAWSON LAKES, ONLINE
External (Online learning activities)	3 hours x 13 weeks
EXTERNAL, MT GAMBIER, ONLINE
External (Online learning activities)	3 hours x 12 weeks
External (On-campus support)	N/A x as required
EXTERNAL, WHYALLA, ONLINE
External (Online learning activities)	3 hours x 12 weeks
External (On-campus support)	N/A x as required
EXTERNAL, MAGILL, ONLINE
External (Online learning activities)	3 hours x 12 weeks

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Assessment

Essay, Online presentation, Presentation, Report

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
Commonwealth Supported program (Band 1A)
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* Equivalent Full Time Study Load. Please note: all EFTSL values are published and calculated at ten decimal places. Values are displayed to three decimal places for ease of interpretation.