EDF1065 · Foundational numeracy for learning

Overview

This unit provides you with the opportunity to experience mathematics as a problem-solving discipline, to explore mathematical knowledge, and to develop an awareness of the importance of positive a disposition towards mathematics. You will participate actively in workshops and reflect on your experiences. Your personal understanding of mathematics will be challenged while you are exploring mathematics for teaching. You will begin to appreciate how young children learn mathematics, and how educators support this learning. You will investigate resources that model effective approaches to teaching mathematics. In this unit you will build a broad knowledge of teaching materials and to be discerning in their use. The experiences in this unit will enable you to begin to collect resources that will equip you to teach mathematics with children aged 0-8 years.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. recognise the characteristics of mathematical problem solvers, apply these, and translate these to young mathematicians’ learning
2. demonstrate broad and flexible understanding of the concepts that underpin the mathematics curriculum.
3. display confidence in your capacity to engage in mathematical activity and in your ability to continue to learn mathematical subject knowledge for teaching
4. effectively communicate mathematics to your peers and lecturer, using a variety of media, including information and communication technologies (ICTs)
5. articulate how your learning experiences in the unit relate to teaching and learning mathematics in early childhood settings and primary schools.

Workload

The minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per teaching period comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Usually, you can expect to engage with: • 24 hours* of scheduled learning delivered on campus via weekly/regular directed learning activities; and • the remaining hours to be allocated towards self-directed/independent study Scheduled learning activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement. *Subject to variation due to professional experience requirements.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.