Numeracy

=Numeracy=

Useful web links To support teachers with using a number of mental strategies Curriculum Support offers the following web site: [|Mental Computations] The following PowerPoint presentation assists with how to use the site above.  There are some useful web sites listed on the National Literacy and Numeracy Week site that are good for use in classrooms or to point students and parents to for use at home. See []

Professional reading
Below are links to two papers recently published in the Curriculum Leadership Journal. The first explores leading numeracy learning in the school and the second investigates leading numeracy learning in the classroom. [] [] This paper explores using big ideas in maths with students    <span style="backgroundclip: initial; backgroundclip: initial; backgroundorigin: initial; backgroundorigin: initial; backgroundposition: 100% 50%; backgroundpositionx: 100%; backgroundpositiony: 50%; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; margin: 0px; marginbottom: 0px; marginleft: 0px; marginright: 0px; margintop: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; paddingbottom: 0px; paddingleft: 0px; paddingright: 10px; paddingtop: 0px;">Handy hints for teaching number- a great article on developing deep understanding around place value. <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; backgroundclip: initial; backgroundorigin: initial; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[] ===<span style="display: block; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**<span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; backgroundclip: initial; backgroundorigin: initial; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">The following books are great for exploring mathematical concepts with students. ** === <span style="display: block; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> Clements, A. (2006) <span style="color: #000000; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">A Million Dots, Simon & Schuster: New York <span style="color: #ff00ff; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">. Explores big numbers to one million Fromental, J.& Jolivet, J. (2006) //365 Penguins,// Abrams Books: New York. <span style="color: #ff00ff; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Explores multiplication, division, grouping as a family struggles to cater for a new penguin each day of the year Hutchins, P. (1986) //The Doorbell Rang,// <span style="color: #000000; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Bodley Head <span style="color: #ff00ff; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> Division Viorst, J. (1987) //Alexander, who used to be rich last Sunday// Angus & Robertson <span style="color: #ff00ff; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Focuses on money  <span style="display: block; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; backgroundclip: initial; backgroundorigin: initial; cursor: pointer; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-right: 10px;">

**Here are some great websites links that have been created for National Numeracy Week:-)**
<span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">The following videos have just been made available for numeracy. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Click on the play symbol to start the video playing. Please note 2010 'pink' videos have a full-screen toggle option. Select the icon in the top right of the video screen. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">**Mental computation for numeracy** -//Dr Shelley Dole (University of Queensland)// Dole presents an overview of issues relating to mental computation, its definition and approaches to mental computation in early years classrooms. Dole outlines approaches to developing students' proficiency with the basic facts of addition and multiplication and discusses how we can bring meaning to learning the basic facts while fostering students' thinking and strategic knowledge. (23.5 mins) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">**The problems with fractions** -//Dr Peter Gould (NSW Dept of Education and Training)// Gould reveals some insights into understanding and learning fractions. In this presentation, using clear examples, he outlines four significant ways in which students' understanding of fractions can be strengthened. (15 mins) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">**Effective mental computation** -//Professor Alistair McIntosh (University of Tasmania)// McIntosh suggests that the current approach to teaching mental computation in schools can be improved. In this presentation, he outlines key elements of an approach to computation in the middle years with computations involving two- and three-digit numbers. (10 mins)