Government Education Portal - Australia

Assessing Numeracy in Primary Schools  

URL:  http://www.dest.gov.au/...resources/profiles/numeracy_primary.htm

Category:  National  Numeracy policy and reports 

This research project aimed to improve student numeracy outcomes through the development of a whole-school approach that links a comprehensive assessment regime with numeracy teaching and learning that could be applied across the whole school. A variety of alternative modes of assessment were used including Checklists, Student Journals, Interviews, Portfolios and Work Samples, Observations, Use of Rubrics to Assess Problem Solving, Assessment of Attitudes as well as widening the scope and formats of Written Tests. Funded by the Australian Government, the ACT Department of Education and Training (DET), the Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn Catholic Education Office (CEO), and the Association of Independent Schools (AIS) of the ACT, in partnership with the University of Tasmania.

Early childhood numeracy in a multiage setting  

URL:  http://www.merga.net.au/documents/MERJ_16_3_Wood.pdf

Category:  Numeracy policy and reports 

This research is a case study examining numeracy teaching and learning practices in an early childhood multiage setting with Pre-Primary to Year 2 children.

Home, School and Community Partnerships to Support Children's Numeracy  

URL:  http://www.dest.gov.au/.../home_school_community_partnerships.htm

Category:  Numeracy policy and reports  National 

The University of Queensland conducted this project to explore the links between family, school and community that support students' numeracy development. Australia-wide data was collected on the distribution and scope of current numeracy partnerships programmes and practices using a combination of surveys, interviews, and case studies.

Leading numeracy: the learner. Common Curriculum for principals in Hume Region  

URL:  http://cmslive.curriculum.edu.au/...lt.asp?id=22425&issueID=11274

Category:  Numeracy policy and reports 

In August last year, 167 principals gathered in Shepparton, north-eastern Victoria, to participate in the first of twelve modules of leadership training, developed by the Hume Region of the Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development. The training program, called the Common Curriculum , reaffirms principals as instructional leaders in their schools. The first two educational leadership modules deal with numeracy education. This paper covers the content from the first module, examining how principals can help teachers to improve the numeracy skills of individual learners.

National Financial Literacy Framework  

URL:  http://www.mceetya.edu.au/mceetya/default.asp?id=14429

Category:  Curriculum frameworks  Numeracy policy and reports 

The National Consumer and Financial Literacy Framework has been developed for MCEETYA to articulate further the learning needed to fulfil the National Goals of Schooling 1999. The framework is designed to inform the Statements of Learning, provide guidance to states and territories in the development of their Years K-10 curricula, support materials and professional development. There are sections on Year 3, Year 5, Year 7, Year 9, and critical success factors for developing consumer and financial literacy resources .

National Numeracy Review  

URL:  http://www.dest.gov.au/...views/reviews/national_numeracy_review/

Category:  Numeracy policy and reports  Key Government Priorities and Activities 

To assist in the development and implementation of reforms to improve literacy and numeracy, Senior Officials from Commonwealth, State and Territory governments agreed to conduct a National Numeracy Review to identify the teaching, learning and assessment practices that lead to improved numeracy outcomes for students. The website provides the Terms of Reference, Background Paper, Discussion Paper, Invitational Forum Summary and Submissions from organisations.

National Numeracy Review Report  

URL:  http://www.coag.gov.au/docs/national_numeracy_review.pdf

Category:  Numeracy policy and reports 

The report of the National Numeracy Review emphasizes that students need to learn mathematics in ways that enable them to recognise when mathematics might help to interpret information or solve practical problems, apply their knowledge appropriately in contexts where they will have to use mathematical reasoning processes, choose mathematics that makes sense in the circumstances, make assumptions, resolve ambiguity and judge what is reasonable. The time, understanding and thoughtful action that deep mathematical learning requires must be acknowledged, and therefore both curriculum emphases and assessment regimes should be explicitly designed to discourage a reliance upon superfi cial and low level proficiency.

NSW Department of Education and Training - State Numeracy Plan 2006-2008  

URL:  http://www.curriculumsupport.education.nsw.gov.au/..._15mar06.pdf

Category:  Numeracy policy and reports 

The NSW State Numeracy Plan 2006-2008 has been designed to guide the work of schools, regions and state office directorates to achieve further numeracy improvements for all students. The State numeracy plan 2006-2008 sets seven strategic actions: statewide coordinated approach; identification of, and support for, numeracy needs; whole-school planning; assessment and reporting; professional learning; teaching and learning; parents, caregivers and the community.

Numeracy: Families Working it out Together, the Opportunities are Everywhere  

URL:  http://www.dest.gov.au/...cy_families_working_it_out_together.htm

Category:  Numeracy policy and reports  Education and Your Child 

Brochures aimed at promoting the importance of numeracy to parents developed by the Western Australian Department of Education on behalf of DEST. The three brochures are available for downloading and target different age groups being the early years, the middle years and the later years of primary school. The brochure is available in multiple languages.

Numeracy: Lifelong Confidence with Mathematics - Framework for action 2007-2010  

URL:  http://education.qld.gov.au/...um/area/literacy/docs/numeracy.pdf

Category:  Numeracy policy and reports  Education reports 

This Queensland policy document identifies key priorities and areas for focussed action to meet the challenges in implementing effective numeracy programs, including: understanding numeracy; teacher knowledge and pedagogy; numeracy across the curriculum; numeracy leadership. Education Queensland is committed to implementing the 32 actions in the framework to support all teachers in Queensland state schools improve numeracy outcomes for all students.