Articles from Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom (September 22, 2009)

Title	Author	Type	Words
Cracking the NAPLAN code: numeracy and literacy demands: Thelma Perso examines the literacy demands of NAPLAN test items and provides advice about the explicit teaching of code-breaking and comprehension skills that are essential to numeracy.	Perso, Thelma		2188
Editorial.	Beswick, Kim; Muir, Tracey	Editorial	498
Licorice production and manufacturing: all-sorts of practical applications for statistics: Jane Watson, Jane Skalicky, Noleine Fitzallen and Suzie Wright describe a rich task aimed at helping students from grade 1 to middle school appreciate the source of variation as they generate and examine their own data.	Watson, Jane; Skalicky, Jane; Fitzallen, Noleine; Wright, Suzie		3787
Scaffolding students' thinking in mathematical investigations: Natalie McCosker and Carmel Diezmann draw some pertinent lessons about effective scaffolding from four episodes in which the teacher's attempts at scaffolding did not have the desired effects.	McCosker, Natalie; Diezmann, Carmel		1895
Time for talk: the drawing-telling process: Tracey Smith and Amy Macdonald describe how a combination of drawing and telling can help teachers better to discern and respond to students' developing understandings of clocks.	Smith, Tracey; MacDonald, Amy		2857
Writing in maths.			513