Making Maths Count

EXPLORING MATHS CONCEPTS IN REAL-WORLD CONTEXTS

As 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 abilities
• offers more than 170 tasks that are structured in order of increasing difficulty
• can be used in any primary mathematics class as a series of independent learning units to support to any primary mathematics program, or as a set of homework tasks
• features short topic introductions for teachers as well as student-directed questions and instructions
• is supplemented by digital resources on Oxford Owl.

Contents

• Unit 1 Know your place – Number and place value
• Unit 2 Code cracker – Sequences and series
• Unit 3 It all adds up – Addition
• Unit 4 Take it away – Subtraction
• Unit 5 Good times – Multiplication
• Unit 6 Divide and conquer – Division
• Unit 7 A fraction feast – Fractions
• Unit 8 Decimal delights – Decimals
• Unit 9 100 per cent – Percentages
• Unit 10 Do you measure up? – Length, perimeter and area
• Unit 11 Weighty matters – Mass and capacity
• Unit 12 It's about time – Time
• Unit 13 Dollars and sense – Money
• Unit 14 Data driven – Statistics and graphs
• Unit 15 Shaping up – Geometry
• Unit 16 Chances are … – Probability
• Unit 17 Not a problem – Problem-solving strategies

Making Maths Count is an Oxford Teacher Reference title. The Oxford Teacher Reference series supports educators with high-quality professional resources to help deliver the best educational outcomes in primary and secondary mathematics. Led by research and written by experts in the field, this suite of stand-alone teacher reference titles offers comprehensive support across all areas of mathematics.

Oxford Teacher Reference titles are fully aligned with the Australian Curriculum: Mathematics and are supported by complimentary digital resources available online through Oxford Owl.