Mathematics Teaching 202 - May 2007
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Features
Cultivating creativity - Jennifer PiggottBuy MT2020306 for £3
Jennifer shares her thoughts on creative teaching and how it can encourage creative learners.
Co-ordinates: When am I old enough? - Geoff FauxBuy MT2020810 for £3
Geoff pleads for freedom from Cartesian co–ordinates at key stage 2 to make space for some classical geometry.
Conditions for learning: Responding to Barbara and Derek Ball - Paul Andrews
Paul argues that the mathematical needs of our children demand conformity to a coherent curricular and pedagogical tradition, rather than the encouragement of many.
On rebecoming unfamiliar - Paul StephensonBuy MT2024042 for £3
Paul describes two experiences which led him to look again at a familiar diagram.
Centre feature
Asking the right questions - Students at Nottingham Trent University
Mathematics specialists on a four year primary BA course share some of theirr recent thinking about how they can develop the skills and understandings that help us become mathematical.
From the classroom
Mathematical behaviour - Colin FosterBuy MT2021213 for £3
Colin suggests that important mathematical ways of working are sometimes labeled as 'bad behaviour'.
The all, most and some of learning objectives - Andrew BlairBuy MT2022022 for £3
Andrew asks whether objective-led lessons are leading us down the wrong path.
What's basic in mathematics? - Thomas O'Brien and Ann MossBuy MT2022627 for £3
Thomas and Ann offer some games that challenge children to make sense of mathematics and to explain, justify, predict, compare and derive ideas.
Learning geometry through dynamic geometry software - Sue ForsytheBuy MT2023135 for £3
Sue investigates effective teaching and learning of geometrical concepts using dynamic geometry software.
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Turning round Year 9 - David ShinkfieldBuy MT2023639 for £3
David describes how he tried to improve the mathematical learning behaviour of pupils in his Year 9 class.
Appendix to accompany this article.
Research
Deconstructing calculation methods: Part 1 - Ian ThompsonBuy MT2021415 for £3
In the first of several articles, Ian deconstructs the primary strategy's approach to written addition.
The same difference - Ian SugarmanBuy MT2021618 for £3
Ian highlights a mental strategy for subtraction, overlooked by the primary strategy, that offers a more child-friendly alternative to decomposition.
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