Making Maths Count: Exploring Maths Concepts in Real-World Contexts

EXPLORING MATHS CONCEPTS IN REAL-WORLD CONTEXTSAs educators, our goal is to prepare students for life beyond the classroom, and therefore the mathematics we teach must be relevant to students' everyday lives. Making Maths Count is a practical resource for primary teachers, offering 'low threshold, high ceiling' activities in real-world contexts, with links to the Australian Curriculum: Mathematics. The depth and breadth of these activities support student engagement and motivation, leading to further learning and deeper understanding.This book:features 17 units of work for primary school students of all ages and abilitiesoffers more than 170 tasks that are structured in order of increasing difficultycan be used in any primary mathematics class as a series of independent learning units, asupport to any primary mathematics program, or as a set of homework tasksfeatures short topic introductions for teachers as well as student-directed questions and instructionsis supplemented by digital resources on Oxford Owl.