Numeracy teaching and learning materials, kits, teacher reference materials and other numeracy learning support publications from the Australian Awards for Excellence in Educational Publishing (in 2007, 2008 and 2009) are being donated to Bachelor of Learning Management students undertaking the Numeracy in Action course.

CQUniversity Noosa lecturer Dr Mike Horsley is also Chief Judge of the Australian Awards in Excellence in Educational Publishing, which he manages in partnership with the Australian Publishers Association.

Above: Lecturers Judy Bull and Rob Proffitt-White exploring Numeracy Big Books and Below: Numeracy in Action BLM students at Noosa exploring the range of numeracy publications in class

Each year, Dr Horsley receives over 400 new titles that are entered into the awards.

A donation of over 200 new numeracy teacher reference materials, kits, learning objects, CD Roms, textbooks series and Big Books from Australian publishers (worth over $20,000) from the national awards will be used to support the advancement of numeracy teaching and learning at Noosa.

These numeracy materials will be used for evaluation and for planning use of numeracy resources in classrooms; to identify the entire range of numeracy materials on the market; to align published materials with the thrust of numeracy curriculum and to support practice teaching and fieldwork in schools.

Students will be able to borrow the materials and use these latest resources to design units of work and lesson plans.