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Mathematics Teaching 170 - March 2000
Mathematics Teaching is the journal of the Association of Teachers of Mathematics. It is a professional journal sent to all members of the Association. It is not a refereed journal. Submissions are reviewed by the editorial team. Many articles have additional information or associated files placed on the journal website.
MT170 Contents
Editorial - Barbara Ball
The Government wants more creativity to be fostered amongst teachers and students in our schools. They think this might be good for the economic health of the nation.
Letters - Neil Eddy; Harrie Broekman and Heather Scott
A league table might rank the performances of the Prime Minister, cabinet ministers, junior ministers and others holding office in the Government.
The answer is 4 - Laurinda Brown
When developing cultures where pupils see their task as 'becoming mathematicians' one aspect is exploring how to work so that there is not the sense of pupils answering closed questions and then waiting to see what they have to do next.
Multiples, primes and factors - Rod Cross
It came as a surprise to discover that where the multiples of 3 and 4 come together, they give the numbers in the 12 times table!
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The importance of mathematical thought - Kate Golding
They hold getting the answer right in great esteem and do not see the value of explaining their working.
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Letting go - Becky Sylvester
Vicky even informed me that she was going to go home and work them all out now.
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Teaching number: does the numeracy strategy hold the answers? - Ina Mayow
This is a two way process in which pupils are expected to play an active part by answering questions, contributing points to discussions and explaining and demonstrating their methods to the class.
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Don't let anyone tell you mathematics isn't beautiful - Richard Goodman
My year 12 group are battling with the problem of finding the area of the completed fractal.
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Extending literacy into mathematics - Vasant Mahandru
Peter arm was 35cm long and his baby brother foot was 8cm long. How old do you think Peter was? The use of language plays a crucial role in the understanding of maths.
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The most beautiful moment - Jan Einar Nordgreen
"Well, you'd better redefine multiplication, son, because this summer we are going to lay a lot of these patterns and I need to know in an instant how many tiles we need to bring for each of them. I want 4 x 3 to be 9 from now on!"
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Recurring decimals: Vedic style - Andrew Stewart-Brown
The moment pupils genuinely want to know, the subject comes alive and they can be led, or find their way, to understanding.
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Numeracy story - Janet Duffin
I found that some of the methods I had been doing in my head, which I thought were wrong, were actually acceptable.
Brize Norton and some points south - Sam Costello
Several meals later, and after a peculiar break at Ascension, I'm finally putting foot to terra firma at Mount Pleasant Airport in the Falkland Islands.
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Mathematics teaching in Pakistan and the UK - Richard Barwell
I compare the teaching of mathematics in England and Wales and in Pakistan, in both cases as I have experienced them.
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Reviews - ATM
Assisting numeracy: a handbook for classroom assistants; Learning to teach mathematics in the secondary school; Gnomon: From Pharaohs to Fractals; Maths in a Box; The maths and human rights resource book.
Personal View - Sue Welford
To have been given opportunities to think mathematically and to have to provide proof at a young age obviously had a profound effect.
Metric time - Derek Ball
It may be because of our awareness of our mortality that we are reluctant to tidy up the units in which we measure time.
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