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    Jorgensen, Robyn
    Grootenboer, Peter
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    Jorgensen, Robyn L.
    Grootenboer, Peter J.
    Year published
    2011
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    Abstract
    Australia is a country that has a strong interest in water and swimming with most of the population living within one hour of a body of water. Significant numbers of parents take their under-5s to swimming lessons. Anecdotally, the swim industry believes that swimming enhances many aspects of young children's growth and learning. This paper explores the ways in which the swim environment for under-5s offers significant opportunities for learning many mathematical concepts that have the transferability to school contexts. However, with the costs of swimming lessons being high, questions are posed regarding equity and the ...
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    Australia is a country that has a strong interest in water and swimming with most of the population living within one hour of a body of water. Significant numbers of parents take their under-5s to swimming lessons. Anecdotally, the swim industry believes that swimming enhances many aspects of young children's growth and learning. This paper explores the ways in which the swim environment for under-5s offers significant opportunities for learning many mathematical concepts that have the transferability to school contexts. However, with the costs of swimming lessons being high, questions are posed regarding equity and the potential of swimming to further advantaged the already advantaged.
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    Conference Title
    Mathematics: Traditions and [New] Practices: Proceedings of the AAMT-MERGA conference
    Publisher URI
    https://www.merga.net.au/Public/Public/Publications/Annual_Conference_Proceedings/2011_MERGA_CP.aspx
    Copyright Statement
    © 2011 MERGA. The attached file is posted here with permission of the copyright owner for your personal use only. No further distribution permitted. For information about this conference please refer to the publisher’s website or contact the authors.
    Subject
    Mathematics and Numeracy Curriculum and Pedagogy
    Early Childhood Education (excl. Maori)
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/41837
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