This book explores the issues that are emerging regarding the teaching of these skills, beginning with preschool and the early years of primary school through to adults with poor numeracy skills.
This book provides an introduction to what it means to be numerate, and how numeracy can best be developed and nurtured in children and in adults.
It also reinforces the use of evidence in policy-making by helping policy makers find out what works". 4.6 The Department monitors the Boards' literacy and numeracy targets on an ongoing basis through their spending priorities.
This is related to reform movements in the UK, the US and other countries aimed at modernising primary (elementary) school mathematics curricula.
The project encountered many of the problems which arise when introducing technology into the primary classroom: q ... is used in the following: Y4 means year 4, T2 means term 2, T13 means text level 13, S10 means sentence level 10, ...
Practising teachers and students will find this an invaluable guide on how to work together to extend their skills and knowledge in the area of ICT.
Wragg and Brown (1993: 3) describe explaining as 'giving understanding to another' and they suggest that an explanation can help someone understand: · concepts; · cause and effect; · procedures; · purposes and objectives; ...
This work provides an analysis of how knowledge is constructed and defined by teachers and lecturers in schools and universities/colleges.
'Language, Literacy, and Learning in Primary Schools' is a synthesis of the findings arising from four years of policy research and development in Nigeria's primary schools that focused on the...
Creating the Curriculum tackles this thorny issue head on, challenging student and practising primary school teachers to think critically about past and present issues and to engage with a new wave of curriculum thinking and development.