Numeracy

The structured classroom program includes a daily one-hour numeracy block. The use of powerful teaching approaches together with grouping strategies supports teachers in catering for the needs of all students. There is an emphasis on the use of continuous monitoring and assessment of students. The classroom program takes into account stages of mathematical growth and reflects teachers’ planning and selection of appropriate learning contexts and activities.

With the provision of a carefully balanced and structured classroom program in mathematics, the number of students requiring additional assistance will be minimised. However, it is recognised that some students will require additional support.  A process for providing additional assistance includes identification strategies, the establishment of home-school support groups, the development of Individual Learning Improvement Plans, the planning of appropriate teaching programs, and a process for reviewing student progress at regular intervals.

The Early Years Numeracy Program provides strategies for schools and teachers to involve parents in their children’s mathematics education by improving communication between home and school and supporting parents in appropriate ways they can help.  These strategies include training for classroom helpers and interactive sessions that develop partnerships between schools and parents.

High quality additional resources:
Department of Education Literacy and Numeracy Tips for Parents (.pdf) (produced in August 2018)

Department of Education website Numeracy at Home Resources page:

The professional development modules draw together all the components of the Early Years Numeracy Program. The professional development strategy provides training for Early Years Numeracy trainers, Early Years Coordinators and classroom teachers. Involvement in professional learning furthers the skills and understandings of all teachers. Over the past four years, staff have been working closely with Michael Ymer to further enhance our Numeracy program throughout all year levels. Ymer's overarching message is to excite students about mathematics by making it more meaningful and fun. Teachers aim to integrate topics wherever possible by using measurement topics as a vehicle for teaching number concepts and then follow up with specific skill practise sessions to consolidate their undestanding.