12. Numeracy

Numeracy is Everyone's Business

Every year a teacher is awarded with The Global Teacher Prize which is equivalent to $1 million. This award is given to a teacher who has made "a remarkable impact as an educator." The 2017 winner was Maggie MacDonnell. She works at a remote school in Canada. In 2018, three Australians made the top 50 finalists, and a teacher named Eddie Woo is among the three. He harps on reducing students' anxiety when it comes with math related topics. Woo even moved along to be in the top 10. 

Sarah Mathews

Sarah Mathews from Brisbane Bayside College has also made it in the top category. Her area of expertise is working with colleagues from other faculties to improve numeracy outcomes. She worked in research for nearly two decades before she began teaching. She has made an enormous impact on the numeracy abilities of students at Brisbane Bayside State College. She believes that her success derives from her innovative and evidence-based teaching style. 

The fundamentals of her teaching lies within implementation stemmed from realizing that math classes were not usually centered around abstract thinking. She realized that students need to implement more numerical thinking. 

Brisbane Bayside College

She came up with the concept of "numeracy moments" upon researching and trying to come up with the best way to solve this rather large issue at stake in her school. This meant that all subjects at school (including P.E., art, psychology classes, etc.) began using numeracy type terms to apply them to real life situations and get students thinking in terms of numeracy. 

Needless to say, numeracy moments was a success rather instantly. Students actually began having fun with it and all of the faculty and other teachers were enjoying it as well. 

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