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Mathematics is a highly valued part of the Australian curriculum, and this text aims to help pre-service teachers become comfortable and familiar with the idea of teaching mathematics in a classroom environment. It will familiarise the reader with both the content of the math curriculum and the pedagogy used to teach it to students. Through recommendations from experts and drawn from research, it provides a basis to help convey concepts to children in a way that makes sense to them and supplies practical suggestions on how best to teach the subject.Chapter 1: School mathematics in a changing worldChapter 2: Helping children learn mathematics with understandingChapter 3: Planning and teachingChapter 4: Enhancing learning and teaching through assessment and feedbackChapter 5: Processes of doing mathematicsChapter 6: Helping children with problem solvingChapter 7: Counting and number sense in early childhood and primary yearsChapter 8: extending number sense: place valueChapter 9: Operations: meanings and basic factsChapter 10: Mental computation, calculators and estimationChapter 11: Solving problems with written strategiesChapter 12: Fractions and decimals: meanings and operationsChapter 13: Ratio, proportion and percentages: meanings and applicationsChapter 14: Extending students with number theoryChapter 15: Algebraic thinkingChapter 16: GeometryChapter 17: MeasurementChapter 18: Data analysis, statistics and probability.