- Title
- Teaching and learning for numeracy competence
- Creator
- Sellars, Maura
- Relation
- Authentic Contexts of Numeracy: Making Meaning Across the Curriculum p. 23-39
- Relation
- https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811057342
- Publisher
- Springer
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2018
- Description
- The mathematics that has been the focus of education in schooling, and which has been referred to previously as ‘institutionalised’ mathematics, is the Mathematics of abstract thinking, symbolic representation and formal logical thinking. It is frequently identified in texts, policies and other documents as Mathematics with a capital M. The pure and applied forms of this learning domain represent huge social, cultural and economic capital in globalised countries. The challenge for teachers of younger students is how best to adequately prepare young learners, despite the increasing degree of diversity in Australian classrooms, to develop their understanding of the foundational concepts of this domain in practical ways, which, in turn, facilitates access to the most advanced, complex areas of mathematical thinking and problem solving. As always, it is important to understand the developmental stages of the students, and to respect the prior knowledge and experiences of mathematics and numeracy that they bring to their classrooms (Bruner, 1997; Cole & Wertsch, 1996; Duncan, 1995).
- Subject
- mathematics; development; student learning; barriers
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1409088
- Identifier
- uon:35938
- Identifier
- ISBN:9789811057342
- Language
- eng
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