Numeracy in Authentic Contexts

Maura Sellars PhD is a lecturer at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Student centred early childhood pedagogies have permeated her work as a classroom teacher, researcher and writer. An experienced teacher, she taught across all primary grades in schools in the UK and Australia for almost 30 years. With a background in creativity, she aims to produce practical, engaging and fulfilling programs that are inclusive and socially just in nature. She has worked extensively in Professional Preparation, mathematics and concepts of numeracy as social practice. She is currently working on developing resources to support all teachers in becoming effective teachers of numeracy, on strategies that support the development of 21st century thinking and learning and on making mathematics and numeracy meaningful for students.

• Section 1.- Chapter 1 Mathematics and Numeracy in a Global Society.- Chapter 2 Teaching and Learning for Numeracy Competence.- Chapter 3 The Mathematical Brain.- Chapter 4 Improving the Learning Experience.- Chapter 5 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Students as Effective Numeracy Learners.- Chapter 6 Language and Culture in the Mathematics Classroom: Scaffolding Learner Engagement.- Section 2.- Chapter 7 Dance.- Chapter 8 Drama in the Primary Classroom: Contextualizing Critical Numeracy.- Chapter 9 Pedagogical Approaches to Teaching and Learning English: Connections with Critical Numeracy.- Chapter 10 Geography and Numeracy.- Chapter 11 The Numeracy of Good Health.- Chapter 12 History and the Importance of Numeracy.- Chapter 13 Media Arts: Visual Culture and Numeracy.- Chapter 14 Music and Numeracy.- Chapter 15 Physical Education and Numeracy.- Chapter 16 Science and Numeracy.- Chapter 17 Technology Education and the Australian Curriculum.- Chapter 18 Visual Art, Visual Designand Numeracy.