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Our collective experience from decades of working in classrooms and other learning environments is that most educators focus on literacy rather than numeracy in the resources displayed in the classroom. The field of numeracy is often restricted to an obligatory poster displaying numbers or number facts and/or a poster about shapes and solids. To find a classroom where learners are immersed in resources focusing on various aspects of numeracy is like stumbling upon an oasis in the desert.
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The school used the phrase ‘Standards of Practice’ to refer to policy documents they were develo** regarding particular practices that the school was implementing and wanted to preserve in a sustainable document to ensure that they survived beyond the current staff. In remote schools, there is a history of change occurring when staff move on from the school. This is often counter-productive for the sustainability of quality practice.
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Jorgensen, R., Graven, M. (2021). Mathematical Language Immersion Learning Environments. In: Merging Numeracy with Literacy Practices for Equity in Multilingual Early Year Settings. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7767-0_9
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