Numeracy friendly environment
Making sure that your learners understand that numeracy is everywhere is important and creating a numeracy friendly environment is one way to do it.
The next activity asks you to think about how this might be done.
Activity 7.2: Building a numeracy rich environment
Work in pairs to consider how you could make your classroom a numeracy rich environment.
For example, you could have:
- Various number lines around the classroom, perhaps above other notice boards, marked in negative and positive numbers in tens, hundreds, decimals or fractions. Number lines can be marked to help your learners understand the numeracy you need in your classroom. Perhaps you could also have a blank number line where the learners could add the numbers they need for their calculations.
A number line marked in hundreds

- A board where the learners write any words that are associated with numeric ideas they meet in their lessons, such as multiply, big or small, subtract, probability, half, decimal, bar chart, and so on.
- A table with packets and bottles labelled with the mass or capacity of their contents. Ask the learners to organise them in size when they have finished other work. Make sure they know what the abbreviations used on the packaging mean.
Make a list of all the ideas you can think of and then write one down in your Teacher Notebook that you can commit to using in your classroom before the next TGM.
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