Description
Online Numeracy Course. Helping children develop the skills necessary to support mathematical learning, problem-solving, and relating numeracy to everyday life is a crucial part of being an educator. Understand the importance of numeracy skills to future achievement and self-esteem. Learn techniques that demonstrate the relevance of numeracy to daily life, classroom strategies to develop numeracy skills, and tasks and activities you can use with the children you support.
Learning outcomes
- You will know the early learning goals and aims of the national curriculum as it relates to numeracy, and be asked to consider how the children you support are achieving against this
- You will understand the importance of numeracy skills for the digital age, self-esteem, and employability
- You will learn about intervention strategies, differentiation, scaffolding learning, and involving families in developing numeracy skills
Advantages of this online numeracy course
- Children can sometimes question why numeracy skills are important, but good quality teaching provides the answer by using techniques that show the relevancy of numeracy to their daily lives, the world around them, and their future careers. This course provides a wealth of resources and ideas about how to explain the relevance of numeracy to real-life situations.
- You will explore a number of resources for primary and secondary school teachers, and educators who are looking to implement numeracy across the curriculum
- Additional activities encourage you to reflect on your learning
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