EDF1065 Foundational numeracy for learning

This unit provides you with the opportunity to experience mathematics as a problem-solving discipline and to explore how mathematical knowledge and positive dispositions for learning mathematics, both within the discipline itself and within individual learners, develops from activity (mental as well as physical), and reflection upon such activity. The unit challenges you to engage with activities designed to promote your personal understanding of mathematical concepts and processes while also developing a deep appreciation of how young children first learn mathematics, and how families and educators support this learning.  Through modelling a differentiated learning approach, the chosen activities and investigations explored throughout the unit allow preservice teachers to extend their mathematical thinking and design rich teaching and learning experiences for children aged 0-8.