ECE211 - Mathematical Learning in the Early Years
| Year: | 2025 unit information |
|---|---|
| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne), Online, Community Based Delivery (CBD)* |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Cohort rule: | This unit is only available to students enrolled in E330, E333 or E334 |
| Prerequisite: | Nil |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | ECE113 |
| Study commitment | Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site. |
| Scheduled learning activities - campus | 1 x 3-hour on-campus seminar per week (in non-placement teaching weeks – approx. 6-7 weeks)
NIKERI (CBD): 3 x 6-hour on-campus intensive (workshops/seminars) per trimester 8 x 1-hour online seminars per week for 8-weeks |
| Scheduled learning activities - online | 1 x 1.5-hour online seminar per week (in non-placement teaching weeks – approx. 6-7 weeks) |
| Note: | *Community Based Delivery (CBD): only for students of the National Indigenous Knowledges, Education, Research and Innovation NIKERI Institute (located at the Waurn Ponds campus) |
Content
This unit supports students to know and understand their role in extending and enriching young children’s mathematics learning. Students will develop their own understanding of the concepts underpinning mathematics, and ways of thinking mathematically, and the mathematics young children can and should learn. The unit develops students’ understanding of current theories, curricula and practice in early years mathematics learning. Students will develop knowledge about young children's mathematical competencies and potential, how young children learn mathematics, and the ways that this knowledge and understanding should inform educators' planning and practice.
In class experiences, provide students with hands on practice of mathematical activities and tasks that can be implemented with children in early childhood and primary (F – 2) classrooms. Students will practice the set up learning environments, communication strategies (verbal and non-verbal) to support learning and assessment techniques. These authentic experiences will support students completion of assessment task 2.
Unit Fee Information
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