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Number Sense and Mental Computation: Implications for Numeracy
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Number Sense and Mental Computation: Implications for Numeracy

A McIntosh and Shelley Dole
Improving Numeracy Learning: Conference Proceedings of the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER), pp.34-37
Improving Numeracy Learning: Annual Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) Conference, 2000 (Brisbane, Australia, 15-Oct-2000–17-Oct-2000)
Australian Council for Educational Research
2000
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http://research.acer.edu.au/research_conference_2000/2/View
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Curriculum and Pedagogy
Numeracy in Australia, though not universally, is taken to cover more than number. For example, the National Numeracy Benchmarks have three strands: Number Sense, Measurement and Data Sense, and Spatial Sense. However, numeracy is generally agreed to incorporate two elements: flexible understanding and usability. The results of our research, which in this paper are confined to number, wholeheartedly support the importance of these two elements.

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