Valuing Communication in Mathematics Classrooms

Portia C. Elliott, Cynthia M. Elliott Garnett (Eds)

A book with readings from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Helps with integrating reading, writing, listening, speaking, and other communication forms into your mathematics classrooms. An outstanding compendium providing a rich resource for mathematics teachers at all levels of schooling. Click here for order form.

A hands-on resource of problem solving tasks developed by Aboriginal Education & Employment Services in South Australia with funding from DEEWR. Suitable for primary years to TAFE sectors all over Australia. Resource includes interactive software, snapshot video of community people telling their numeracy stories and handbook for teachers. Click here for more information about the resource. Click here to download order form. Click here (2.8 MB) to download a unit of work based on one of the problem solving tasks, Footy Trip.

Kate Tucker

This extremely practical book is full of ideas for promoting a play-based approach to the learning of mathematics. Written by a classroom teacher, the book is firmly grounded in real classrooms. Click here for more information.

Detailed support to help develop students’ counting strategies in the junior primary years. A great deal of research and common sense indicates developing robust counting strategies is fundamental to effective numeracy. This book provides a developmental framework for counting strategies that has been identified through extensive research in Australian classrooms. Click here for more information.

Based (as is the 'Stage 1' volume) in classroom research, each activity in this book is set out to explicitly highlight the questions of what the students currently know, what is the next step in their learning, how the activities and experiences will help them to learn, and why each step is important. Click here for more information. Many of the activities from these books are from the Count me in too project (AAMT holds the only hard copies of these!).

A book for education systems, school administrators, teachers and teacher educators

Thelma Perso A valuable resource to help teachers meet the needs of Aboriginal students in mathematics. The result of wide consultation and research, this book provides not only a thorough discussion of background and issues but also explicit identification of their implications in the classroom. Click here for more information.

Using a Strategies Approach

Paul Swan

If you have seen the first edition of this book, then you may be familiar with some of the wealth of activity ideas provided here for helping students to develop fluency in recall of basic multiplication facts. Click here for more information.

Calculators in classrooms: using them sensibly

Card capers: developing mathematics from playing cards

Domino deducations: developing mathematics from dominoes

Dice dazzlers: short and simple dice games to promote numeracy

Dice dilmmas: activities to promote mental computation and develop thinking about chance processes

Dice games for tables (new resource)

Dice games for place value and other maths concepts (new resource).

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Peter Gould

A variety of fun and challenging activities covering a range of mathematical topics will introduce teachers and students to the excitement and challenge of working together to learn and do mathematics. Click here for more information.

A Unit of Work on Measurement for Grades 5 to 8

Doug Clarke

The Case of the Mystery Bone is a fully documented three to five week unit. Students must piece together information about a mystery person using data that they collect about themselves and their class members. Click here for more information.

(2nd Edition)

P. Sullivan, P. Lilburn

As teachers of mathematics, we recognise the importance of asking questions which promote higher level thinking and a variety of thinking strategies. This book discusses the features of good questions and provides practical advice on how to create your own, and use them in class. Click here for more information.

Rich Tasks and Work Samples

Anne Downton, Rose Knight, Doug Clarke, Gerard Lewis

A book for teachers seeking to inform their teaching by the use of tasks which can help to identify what their students know and can do in mathematics. Click here for more information.

Foundations for Teaching Arithmetic

Kyla Marsten, Kaye Stacey (eds). This CD-ROM covers some core areas in primary and middle school mathematics in an intelligent, no-nonsense manner.

Teaching Mental and Written Computation

(Edition 1.1)

Kaye Stacey, Nancy Varughese, Kyla Marston. This CD-ROM aims to show the importance of mental computation in the school curriculum and sets out goals for balancing mental, written and calculator computation.

Teaching and Learning about Decimals

(Version 3.1)

Vicki Steinle, Kaye Stacey, Dianne Chambers. Learning to work confidently with decimal numbers is an important part of numeracy. Contains interactive games.

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Facts, Figures and Fiction

Richard Phillips

Have you ever wondered how Room 101 got its name, or what you measure in oktas? Which number links Alice in Wonderland, rainbows and the Egyptian Book of the Dead? You will find the answers here. Click here for more information.

Peter Westwood

The need for our students to develop numeracy skills is undeniable, and articulated in many quarters – but agreement on what exactly this entails or how it can be achieved is less universal! This easy-to-use guide explores the emerging issues in numeracy teaching, with chapters addressing what we mean by numeracy, the development of numeracy from early childhood through to adulthood, the place of calculation and problem solving, barriers to numeracy, and assessment. Click here for more information.

(3rd edition)

Derek Haylock Developed from the author’s experience working with practising and pre-service primary teachers, this book explains the concepts and processes of the mathematics taught in primary schools in a straightforward, practical and comprehensive way. Click here for more information.

More than 600 words and terms associated with mathematics are defined and explained in a format aimed at students aged 7–11. Diagrams and examples are used extensively. Click here for more information.

Len Sparrow, Paul Swan This book by mathematics educators Len Sparrow and Paul Swan is a collection of ideas, teaching activities and real “advice” which is based on classroom experiences. Click here for more information.

A Handbook (Second Edition)

Gary Flewelling, William Higginson This excellent book goes beyond the rhetoric to look in detail at rich learning tasks: what makes them “rich”, what makes them important, and what learning, teaching and assessment look like when both students and teachers are engaged in them. Click here for more information.