Mathematical Proficiencies
The Australian mathematics curriculum has 5 components of working mathematically and these aims to assist how math is taught and explored in the classroom. When teaching primary school students, I believe it is essential to have as many visual ways to learn as possible. Creating a colorful yet educational classroom is something I aspire to do when I become a teacher.
“Clearly from the literature it can be anticipated that the built environment of the classrooms will have a great impact on pupils’ academic performance, health and well-being” (Barrett, L, Barrett, P, 2015). From this study it is clear to see that allowing a colorful classroom will affect the ways children learn. Creating my own visual representation of the working mathematically proficiencies allows me to be creative and artistic with the design and yet still be impactful with the message being delivered. The fluency, communication, problem solving, reasoning and understanding topics are the 5 proficiencies that are addressed in the curriculum. These visual represents ways which will assist students in understanding what each component means and how they will be able to relate their work to the image. “verbal directions without visual cues, though, visual learners may get confused as they prefer to have something in writing to refer to.” (Roell, K, 2019) As a future educator I hope to incorporate many different engaging visuals to assist the students with their learning, and having created my own is one step forward with this.
References
P. Barrett, L. Barrett, F. Davies (2015) Achieving a step change in the optimal sensory design of buildings for users at all life-stages, from https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360132315000700
Roell, K. (2019). Discover These Visual Learning Traits and Tricks for Studying. Retrieved 5 August 2019, from https://www.thoughtco.com/visual-learning-style-3212062
