Recently added articles from Australian Mathematics Teacher:
Editorial.(Editorial)
Jun 22, 2009; ... There's something about slide rules! I remember the first one I acquired: it was given me by my, then, boyfriend. He had a brand new one as a birthday present. It was a bigger, classier model than his hand-me down--and I coveted it! But even the lesser model was a step-up in mathematical ...
e: how to multiply by adding.
Jun 22, 2009; ... These days, multiplying two numbers together is a breeze. You just enter the two numbers into your calculator, press a button, and there is the answer! It never used to be this easy. Generations of students struggled with tables of logarithms, and thought it was a miracle when the slide ...
Marina's fish shop: a mathematically- and technologically-rich lesson.
Jun 22, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Introduction In early 2008 researchers from the University of Melbourne's New Technologies for Teaching Mathematics project created a lesson for the Year 10 students at their Victorian research schools. Two important goals of ...
Finding the area of a trapezium: theme and variations.
Jun 22, 2009; ... An important message to convey to our students is that mathematics is founded on reasoning and is not just a collection of rules to apply. Many mathematical rules such as area formulas can be derived in ways that are age-appropriate to students, and it is an important part of mathematics ...
Features of generalising tasks: help or hurdle to expressing generality?
Jun 22, 2009; ... Introduction Suppose you intend to use the two problems shown in Figures 1 and 2 in a lesson on pattern generalisation and need to decide on their sequencing. On what criteria have you based your decisions? What criteria have you used to base your decision on? For teachers ...