Numeracy Across the Curriculum

Taylor & Francis

Numeracy Across the CurriculumResearch-based strategies for enhancing teaching and learning\nAuthor(s): Merrilyn Goos, Vince Geiger, Shelley Dole, Helen Forgasz, Anne Bennison\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367718817, 978-0367718817\nSynopsis\nBeing 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 primary and secondary school curriculum. \n\nBased on the authors' ten-year research program, the text explains what numeracy is and how numeracy has developed as an educational goal. It describes in detail the five dimensions of the authors' model: attention to real-life contexd