Overview

This unit provides pre-service teachers with a range of skills and understandings related to numeracy that are now a standard component of the contemporary curriculum environment in Australian schools. By engaging in student-directed inquiry into a range of curriculum areas, pre-service teachers will develop and articulate understanding of the numeracy demands and conventions of these areas, and plan for numeracy development within their subject teaching.

Requisites

Prerequisites
EDU70010 Mathematics in Primary School

Rule
EDU70010 Mathematics in Primary School
AND
EDU60044 Supervised Professional Experience 1
OR
EDU60015 Supervised Professional Experience 1

Teaching periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Semester 2
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
29-July-2024
27-October-2024
Last self-enrolment date
11-August-2024
Census date
31-August-2024
Last withdraw without fail date
13-September-2024
Results released date
03-December-2024
Quarter 4
Location
Online
Start and end dates
07-October-2024
08-December-2024
Last self-enrolment date
07-October-2024
Census date
25-October-2024
Last withdraw without fail date
08-November-2024
Results released date
14-January-2025
Quarter 2
Location
Online
Start and end dates
14-April-2025
15-June-2025
Last self-enrolment date
14-April-2025
Census date
02-May-2025
Last withdraw without fail date
16-May-2025
Results released date
08-July-2025
Quarter 4
Location
Online
Start and end dates
29-September-2025
30-November-2025
Last self-enrolment date
29-September-2025
Census date
17-October-2025
Last withdraw without fail date
31-October-2025
Results released date
13-January-2026

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Critically analyse the teaching of numeracy and its application across the curriculum
  • Differentiate between formal and informal numeracy learning and thinking
  • Construct processes and experiences that develop numeracy capabilities within and beyond disciplinary areas
  • Critically review numeracy conventions and demands associated with specific curriculum areas and societal expectations.
  • Design various teaching tools, using a range of media as appropriate, for developing children’s mathematical understandings and numeracy practices.

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
Live Online
Lecture
1.00 12 weeks 12
On-campus
Class
2.00 12 weeks 24
Specified Activities
Various
4.00 12 weeks 48
Unspecified Activities
Various
5.50 12 weeks 66
TOTAL150

Swinburne Online

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
Online
Directed Online Learning and Independent Learning
12.50 12 weeks 150
TOTAL150

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
Planning AnalysisIndividual 50% 4,5 
ReportIndividual 50% 1,2,3 

Content

  • What is numeracy? What does it mean to be numerate
  • Numeracy as a general capability
  • Numeracy across the curriculum
  • Mathematical literacy
  • Numeracy concepts and skills
  • Numeracy strategies and activities
  • Effective teaching of numeracy
  • Effective assessment of numeracy
  • Relevant national and/or state or territory curriculum

Study resources

Reading materials

A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.