Recently added articles from Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom:
Editorial.
Sep 22, 2008; ... Welcome to the third issue of APMC for 2008. Having just returned from Mexico and the 11th International Congress on Mathematics Education (ICME 11), our heads are buzzing with ideas and questions. We hope that this issue will get your heads buzzing too--and those of your students! ...
Early spatial thinking and the development of number sense: Janette Bobis explains how teachers can build on young children's spatial abilities to develop important foundations of number sense.
Sep 22, 2008; ... Number sense has been recognised as central to young children's development of mathematics for a number of decades (Australian Education Council, 1990; National Council of Teachers of Mathematics [NCTM], 2000; Sowder, 1988). Although still rather nebulous to describe, a student with a ...
Encouraging mathematical thinking through pattern & structure: an intervention in the first year of schooling: Joanne Mulligan, Mike Mitchelmore, Coral Kemp, Jennie Marston and Kate Highfield report on a teaching intervention aimed at developing young children's understanding of pattern and structure.
Sep 22, 2008; ... In two earlier articles in this journal, we described Grade 1 students' use of pattern imagery and structural awareness when they solved triangular number and area tasks (Mulligan, Prescott, & Mitchelmore, 2003; Mulligan, Prescott, Mitchelmore, & Outhred, 2005). In this article, we ...
Domino challenges: the first three activities use dominoes to help students 'subitise' or instantly recognise the number of dots in spatial patterns.(HOT IDEAS WITH DOTS)
Sep 22, 2008 ... DOMINO FLIP 1 Place a set of dominoes face down on the floor. 2 Have the students take turns to flip over one domino at a time. 3 Encourage the student to immediately state the number of dots on each side of the domino and then the total. 4 If ...
Dialogue & feedback: assessment in the primary mathematics classroom: Rosemary Callingham reminds us of the importance of establishing productive dialogue with students in order to build on their existing understandings.
Sep 22, 2008; ... Assess (v. tr.) Estimate the size or quality of. (Readers Digest Oxford Complete Wordfinder, p. 80) This definition encompasses two aspects of educational assessment. The 'size' of the learning that has occurred is, in essence, what summative assessment of learning aims to ...
Using questioning to stimulate mathematical thinking: Jenni Way reminds us of the importance of questioning to stimulating higher order thinking.
Sep 22, 2008; ... Good questioning techniques have long been regarded as a fundamental tool of effective teachers and research has found that "differences in students' thinking and reasoning could be attributed to the type of questions that teachers asked" (Wood, 2002, p. 64). Past research shows that 93% ...
Mathematics Assessment for Learning: Rich Tasks and Work Samples.(Brief article)(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Mathematics Assessment for Learning: Rich Tasks and Work Samples Ann Downton, Rose Knight, Doug Clarke & Gerard Lewis Published by Mathematics Teaching & learning Centre (Australian Catholic University) & Catholic Education Office, Melbourne 2006, 152 pp., ...
Working with students to help them understand fractions: Karen Tanner shares her experiences of teaching fractions.
Sep 22, 2008; ... This article reports on my recent experiences with teaching fractions to a Grade 6/7 class. I was keen to provide the students with engaging activities that would enable them to develop a sound understanding of the concepts taught. I wanted them to be exposed to a range of strategies and ...
What if your ABCs were your 123s? Building connections between literacy and numeracy.(Book review)
Sep 22, 2008; ... What if your ABCs were your 123s? Building connections between literacy and numeracy. Minton, L. (2007). Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Available in Australia from Footprint Books or any good bookseller. Please solve the ...