Detailed support to help develop students’ counting strategies in the junior primary years. A great deal of research and common sense indicates developing robust counting strategies is fundamental to effective numeracy. This book provides a developmental framework for counting strategies that has been identified through extensive research in Australian classrooms. For each stage there is a range of activities to address particular aspects — sequencing, numeral identification and patterns etc. in the early stages, operations and strategies in the latter. The layout of each activity explicitly highlights key aspects of teaching as well as a brief discussion of why the learning is important and methods effective.
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ISBN-10: 0-7313-5572-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-7313-5572-3
Year Levels: pre K - 3
Publisher:
NSW Department of Education and Training (Australia)
Page Count:
291
Cover type: Soft cover, spiral bound
Publication date: 1999
Product number:
DSE010
Keywords: Classroom material, Early childhood, Number, Professional learning/teacher education
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