Teacher guide Bridging the Numeracy Gap

TLF ID S7050

This teacher resource describes the Bridging the Numeracy Gap strategy, which aimed to build teacher capacity and accelerate learning for mathematically vulnerable students in low socioeconomic status and Aboriginal communities in Victoria and Western Australia. Actions included: implementing a research-based intervention strategy, the Extending Mathematical Understanding (EMU) program, developing specialist teachers within each school and professional development for numeracy teams including the principal, numeracy leader and Aboriginal teaching assistant (where relevant) from participating schools. The resource describes the positive results achieved, including increased student confidence in mathematics, and discusses the lessons learned. It also provides references and links to relevant readings.





Educational details

Educational value
  • This resource may be useful in supporting the mathematics learning area. It describes strategies that were found to accelerate learning and increase confidence for students identified as 'mathematically vulnerable' in the formative years of schooling. The strategies included professional development for numeracy teams, based on the EMU specialist teacher program.
  • This resource might assist teachers in addressing many aspects of the Numeracy general capability. It provides useful guidelines for improving numeracy for students from isolated low socioeconomic and Aboriginal community schools. It also highlights the importance of involving Aboriginal teaching assistants in professional development and taking a collaborative approach that involves the school principal, staff, parents, students and the broader community. The references and links are relevant to early years and primary numeracy.
Year level

F; 1; 2; 3; 4

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Contributors
  • Contributor
  • Name: Education Services Australia
  • Organization: Education Services Australia
  • Description: Data manager
  • Copyright Holder
  • Name: Commonwealth of Australia
  • Organization: Commonwealth of Australia
  • Address: AUSTRALIA
  • URL: http://www.australia.gov.au
  • Publisher
  • Name: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Organization: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Description: Publisher
  • Address: AUSTRALIA
  • URL: http://www.esa.edu.au
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  • Name: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Organisation: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Address: AUSTRALIA
  • URL: www.esa.edu.au
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Learning Resource Type
  • Online
  • Text
Rights
  • © 2014 Commonwealth of Australia, unless otherwise indicated. This material is provided under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike licence (CC BY-SA 3.0 AU) unless otherwise indicated. You may distribute, remix and build upon this material, provided that you include the acknowledgement '© Commonwealth of Australia 2014' and license under the same terms any new creations you have based on the material.