Undergraduate TAS-EES162-2023
Foundations of Numeracy Support
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Duration
14 weeks
Study method
100% Online
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Assessments
100% online
Prior study
Not required
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Subject details
Upon completion of this subject, the student should be able to:
- Identify strengths and weaknesses in your mathematical skills and evaluate evidence of your own learning.
- Reflect on your current skills and knowledge in relation to numeracy support work.
- Articulate learners’ mathematical understanding and numeracy development, and discuss the consequences of this development in numeracy support work.
- Describe key concepts and essential knowledge with regard to numeracy support in Australian educational contexts.
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Additional requirements
No additional requirements
This subject introduces you to pedagogies appropriate for supporting the learning of mathematics in classrooms. The subject will provide opportunities for you to develop your personal numeracy skills and to identify where these skills can be applied in the context of education support. You will develop an understanding of appropriate pedagogies for individualising numeracy development, along with the theoretical underpinnings of how children learn mathematics. The subject will provide opportunities for you to deepen your own mathematical content knowledge, along with assessing children’s mathematical thinking using work samples and practical classroom examples.
- Plan (40%)
- Assignment (20%)
- Abstract (40%)
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