Making Sense of Number - Improving Personal Numeracy

A concise introduction to personal and professional numeracy skills, helping readers to become more mathematically competent.

List of contents

1. Reflection on Personal Mathematics Experiences and Abilities; 2. Mathematics and Numeracy: The Role of Number Sense; 3. The Hindu-Arabic Number System; 4. Number Facts; 5 Mental Computation; 6. Additive and Multiplicative Thinking; 7. Fractional Thinking; 8. Ratio, Rate and Scale; 9. Problem Solving; Appendix: Answers to Learning Activities.

About the author

Annette Hilton is an Industry Fellow in the School of International Studies and Education at the University of Technology Sydney.Geoff Hilton is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Queensland School of Education.

Summary

Making Sense of Number is a concise introduction to personal and professional numeracy skills, helping readers to become more mathematically competent. It includes relevant content to assist pre-service teachers to improve numeracy for the classroom or to prepare for LANTITE and support for practising teachers to develop their numeracy skills.

Product details

• Authors: Annette Hilton, Annette (University of Technology Hilton, Geoff Hilton, Geoff (University of Queensland) Hilton, Hilton Annette, Hilton Geoff
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2021
• EAN: 9781009009928
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0900992-8
• No. of pages: 180
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / History, Educational strategies & policy, Adult numeracy guides & handbooks, Adult numeracy guides and handbooks, Educational strategies and policy, Numeracy strategies