ABSTRACT
Dave Baker is Senior Lecturer in Mathematical Education in the School of Education at the University of Brighton. He spent the early years of his life in South Africa and had to leave Apartheid South Africa for political reasons. He taught in secondary schools before becoming a teacher educator and has subsequently taught at the University of Melbourne, Australia. His research interests have developed from the use of computers in the teaching and learning of mathematics in primary schools to the implications of numeracies as social practices. He is co-author of How Big is the Moon? (1990, Oxford University Press, Australia); and Literacy and Numeracy: Concepts and Definitions (1995, International Encyclopaedia of Education, Pergamon, UK).
