Recently added articles from Mathematics Teaching:
REFLECTIONS
Sep 01, 2008; ... Before writing diese Reflections I was knitting in my living room. I became so frustrated while attempting to learn a new knitting pattern that I unravelled my meagre attempt and continued with a tried-and-tested pattern I had knitted for years. Why did I start my reflection diis way? I ...
OUTCOME-LED AND PROCESS-LED TEACHING
Sep 01, 2008; ... Rebecca Teasdale suggests technological and pedagogical resources which can help to reconcile learning-objective-led and process-objective-led mathematics teaching. What is the purpose of teaching? Is it the transmission of the facts or is it the nurture of an enquiring mind? The debate ...
FRAGMENTS AND COHERENCE
Sep 01, 2008; ... Anne Watson's opening address to the joint Easter conference, 2008 One of the things that happens as people grow older is that they look at what is happening around them with bewilderment The tilings they see as important get overtaken by things they see as distractions. The commercials ...
a Billion is how BIG?
Sep 01, 2008; ... John Gough suggests ideas for using length, area and volume to help grasp counting, numbers, place-value and unusually large quantities. Place-value is a central, powerful mathematical concept. From the earliest years of school we focus on developing strong understanding of the ideas, ...
PHILOSOPHY IN THE MATHEMATICS CLASSROOM
Sep 01, 2008; ... Christopher Martin found that he needed to persevere when attempting to set up a climate of discussion in his classroom. "We are going to have a discussion about what we have just heard. To do this, we need to have some rules. The first is that you may only speak when you are holding ...
PLEASE SIR, I WANT SOME MORE!
Sep 01, 2008; ... Jayne Stansfield reflects on the benefits of her students visiting the 2008 Easter conference. I met lots of new people at conference this year. Almost all asked "Where are you from?" "Bath," I'd reply. The response was almost invariably "I wonder why there are so many people from Bath ...
BOWLAND MATHS: PROBLEM SOLVING IN KEY STAGE 3
Sep 01, 2008; ... Alice Onion, Peter Lane, Adelaide Lister and Karen Wintle reflect on the experience of trialling resources developed to increase student engagement through solving problems. A project has been developed for KS3 maths, funded by the Bowland Trust www.bowlandmaths.org.uk with additional ...
QUILTING WITH YEAR 6
Sep 01, 2008; ... Following an ATM working weekend funded by the Clothworkers' Guild, Geoff Faux and Barbara Hepburn invited three neighbouring village primary schools to make a quilt as a collaborative venture. A cold sunny November morning. We laid out the village hall with nine tables for the children ...
Webwatch: Making links with statistics
Sep 01, 2008; ... Stella Dudzic suggests making use of some of the resources at www.rsscse.org.uk/qca/resources.htm with learners at key stages 3 or 4. Using a problem-solving approach in teaching statistics can help make links with real life and other curriculum subjects as well as improve students' ...
Playing dominoes
Sep 01, 2008; ... I am often concerned that my KS 5 teaching is not as interesting as KS 3 and 4. When teaching A- Level, I feel under more pressure to get through the content quickly, and, as sixth-form students are well behaved, it is all too easy to give them an example and have them work through the exercises ...
Mathematics and global warming
Sep 01, 2008; ... In teaching algebra - in particular, graphs of straight lines to a YlO class - I was struck by how frequently discussions of Svhat is the point' came about In response to this, I devised a cross-curricular set of lessons to illustrate the wider importance of mathematics. The most effective and ...
'SOME ... ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS'
Sep 01, 2008; ... David Fielker looks at some aspects of the equals sign. At Abbey Wood Mathematics Centre, in London, we used to run in-service courses for teachers, a common one being a three-day course on the teaching of number. My colleagues and I decided at an early stage that it was impossible to be ...
EARLY YEARS FOUNDATION STAGE: HOW MUCH DOES IT COUNT?
Sep 01, 2008; ... Ian Thompson examines the teaching of number in the new EYFS. The final report of the Williams committee (DCSF, 2008: 68) argues that the revised mathematics Framework (DfES, 2006) 'should be reconsidered to achieve a more suitable, user-friendly form'. It might also have added that ...
JOINED-UP REFLECTIONS: PART 1
Sep 01, 2008; ... John Mason drew the 2008 Easter Conference to a close. Here is the first part of his address. As I draw near the age of retirement, I not only acknowledge the closing plenary as a form of 'swan-song' for the conference and a pointing towards ways forward, but also as a metaphor for my ...
18 CORRELATION STREET
Sep 01, 2008; ... The mathematical soap opera that is my classroom ... Pupils' Laws For certain mistakes, the weary teacher may sometimes feel like clubbing a student to a slow and painful deatii. Andrew, a bright but sloppy student a year and half into his A- Level course, offered me this die ...
New editors for Mathematics Teaching
Sep 01, 2008; ... From the start of January 2009 a new team will be editing Mathematics Teaching. The team will be led by Margaret Jones, who will be joined by Douglas Butler, Ken Smith, Lyndon Baker, and Robin Stewart. We are very pleased that Robin has chosen to remain with the new editors and look forward to ...
The walls have a voice
Sep 01, 2008; ... The start of a new year is a good time to walk into a maths classroom and imagine you are a first year. You are used to a primary classroom where you kept all your work in a drawer, had equipment available to help yourself to, and had visual reminders of your progress all over the walls. How ...
REFLECTIONS
Jul 01, 2008; ... It is that time of year again: time for reflection and there does seem to be a lot to reflect on in secondary schools. We have the new curriculum to implement with the 'new' emphasis on functional mathematics. Usually I look at new government initiatives in education (especially in mathematics) ...
CONDITIONS FOR LEARNING: Part 4
Jul 01, 2008; ... In the fourth article in their series, Paul Andrews and Judy Sayers describe what mathematics teachers actually teach in four European countries. In the three previous articles in this series 196 and 199), we have summarised some of the work of the mathematics education traditions of ...
17 CORRELATION STREET
Jul 01, 2008; ... The mathematical soap opera that is my classroom ... Deduction: Seduction Once there was young man who loved both mathematics and engaging with people. "How about a career in teaching?" he wondered. "I want to give something back; I'd like to share the maths education I've been ...