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dc.contributor.convenorAlan Rogerson
dc.contributor.authorBooker, George
dc.contributor.editorLudwig Paditz & Alan Rogerson
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T11:53:07Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T11:53:07Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.date.modified2012-05-08T23:23:13Z
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/44943
dc.description.abstractWhen students experiences difficulties in mathematics, they require assistance to overcome the misconceptions or inappropriate ways of thinking they have developed. Such difficulties should be identified early and assistance provided to address the needs revealed by a Diagnosis of their ways of acting and thinking. Intervention can then focus on providing support within a teaching sequence as soon as a difficulty is noted or anticipated as an essential element of ongoing learning. In this way, students be can helped to develop the conceptual understanding and fluent processes needed to acquire and use mathematics. This paper will provide an overview to the intervention process, from determining underlying causes of any difficulties, leading a student to see inadequacies in their ways of proceeding and thus appreciate a need to change, to implementing means of building appropriate ways of thinking, generalising and applying mathematical ideas. A series of numeracy screening tests (Booker 2011) will be presented.
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dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherRhodes Univesity
dc.publisher.placeGrahamstown, South Africa
dc.publisher.urihttp://math.unipa.it/~grim/21project.htm
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dc.relation.ispartofconferencenameTurning Dreams into Reality: Transformations and Paradigm Shifts in Mathematics Education
dc.relation.ispartofconferencetitleMathematics Education into the 21st Century: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference
dc.relation.ispartofdatefrom2011-09-11
dc.relation.ispartofdateto2011-09-17
dc.relation.ispartoflocationGrahamstown, South Africa
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dc.subject.fieldofresearchMathematics and Numeracy Curriculum and Pedagogy
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode130208
dc.titleMoving from Diagnosis to Intervention in Numeracy - turning mathematical dreams into reality
dc.typeConference output
dc.type.descriptionE2 - Conferences (Non Refereed)
dc.type.codeE - Conference Publications
gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, School of Education and Professional Studies
gro.rights.copyright© The Author(s) 2011. This is the author-manuscript version of this paper. It 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 conference’s website or contact the author.
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gro.griffith.authorBooker, George


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