Numeracy Across the Curriculum

You need to look for opportunities for drawing mathematical experience out of a wide range of children's activities. Mathematics contributes to many subjects of the curriculum, often in practical ways. Activities such as recording the growth of a plant or an animal, measuring temperature and rainfall, or investigating the cog wheels in a bicycle can provide data or starting points for discussion in your mathematics lessons as well as opportunities to apply and use mathematics in real contexts - click here for a word document giving examples of numeracy in a range of subject area

English		Science
	Mathematics lessons can help to develop and support pupils' literacy skills: for example, by teaching mathematical vocabulary and technical terms,		Almost every scientific investigation or experiment is likely to require one or more of the mathematical skills of classifying, counting, measuring, calculating, estimating, and
by asking children to read and interpret problems to identify the mathematical content, and by encouraging them to explain, argue and present their conclusions to others. Equally, English lessons can support your mathematics lesson. For example non-fiction texts can be chosen in which mathematical vocabulary, graphs, charts and tables have to be interpreted.		recording in tables and graphs. In science pupils will, for example, order numbers, including decimals, calculate means and percentages, use negative numbers when taking temperatures, substitute into formulae, re-arrange equations, decide which graph is the most appropriate to represent data, and plot, interpret and predict from graphs.
Art, Design & Technology		Information & Communication Technology
	Measurements are often needed in art and design and technology. Many patterns and constructions are based on spatial ideas and properties of shapes, including symmetry.		Children will apply and use mathematics in a variety of ways when they solve problems using ICT. For example, they will collect and classify data, enter it into data handling software, produce
Designs may need enlarging or reducing, introducing ideas of multiplication and ratio. When food is prepared a great dealof measurement occurs, including working out times, adapting recipes, and calculating cost; this may not be straightforward if only part of a packet of ingredients has been used.		graphs and tables, and interpret and explain their results. Their work in control includes the measurement of distance and angle, using uniform non- standard then standard measures. When they use computer models and simulations they will draw on their abilities to manipulate numbers and identify patterns and relationships.
History, Geography and Religious Education		Physical Education and Music
	In history and geography children will collect data by counting and measuring and make use of measurements of many kinds. The study of maps includes the use of co-ordinates and ideas of angle, direction, position, scale and ratio.		Athletic activities require measurement of height, distance, time and speed, while ideas of time, symmetry, movement. position and direction are used extensively in music. dance, gymnastics and ball games. The key to making the most of these opportunities is
Historical ideas require understanding of the passage of time. which can be illustrated on a time line. similar to the number line that they already know.		to identify the mathematical possibilities across the curriculum at the planning stage. You should also draw children's attention to the links between subjects by talking frequently about them, both in Mathematics and in other lessons.