Birth to Level 10 Numeracy Guide
Learn about and support numeracy development across the curriculum from Birth to Level 10 using this practical suite of resources.
What is Numeracy?
“Numeracy is the knowledge, skills, behaviours and dispositions that students need in order to use mathematics in a wide range of situations.”
Literacy and Numeracy Strategy Phase 2, Page 6.
Reflective Prompt
What approaches to developing and strengthening learners’ numeracy are you hoping to enhance by using this numeracy guide?
What is the relationship between numeracy and mathematics?
Reflective Prompt
What approaches to developing and strengthening learners’ numeracy are you hoping to enhance by using this numeracy guide?
What is the relationship between numeracy and mathematics?
Read more about research on the definition of numeracy and how numeracy and mathematics are viewed differently in the Evidence base.
An overview of numeracy development from Birth to Level 10 is provided in About the Numeracy Guide.
What’s in the Numeracy Guide?
The Numeracy Guide has six sections that you can explore to discover the theory and practice of developing numeracy in learners.
Proficiencies
Read about teaching and planning for numeracy while integrating the four proficiencies
Resources
Explore over 100 curated resources to support planning, teaching and assessment in mathematics
Numeracy Focus Areas
Discover numeracy through six focus areas, developed from the Numeracy Learning Progressions and numeracy research
Numeracy at home
Find information, advice and activities for parents, carers and families to help their child’s numeracy learning at home
High Impact Teaching Strategies (HITS)
Uncover examples of practice using the HITS to support numeracy learning – ten instructional practices that maximise student learning
Evidence base
Explore an overview of contemporary research, thinking and practice in numeracy in the Australian context
Resources
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- All resources
- All Numeracy Focus Areas
- Birth to Level 2
- Level 3 to 8
- Level 9 to 10
- Developing number sense
- Exploring patterns and relationship
- Using proportional reasoning
- Understanding estimating and using measurement
- Exploring chance and data
- Understanding and using geometric properties and spatial reasoning
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