Mathematics Teaching 208 - May 2008
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Features
Visualising series - Hasan UnalBuy MT2081012 for £3
Hasan Unal describes some different ways of visualising the sum of a series.
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Pull-up nets - Liz Meenan
Liz Meenan describes an easy and exciting way of making 3D solids from their nets without the need for any glue.
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Thinking conics - Richard LewisBuy MT2083133 for £3
Richard Lewis, a mathematics education student, describes his mathematical thinking when working on an assignment on conics.
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Theorem of mystery: part 1 - Francis Lopez-RealBuy MT2083840 for £3
In the first of a two-part series, Francis Lopez-Real offers some problems and challenges associated with ‘The mystery theorem’.
Centre feature
Pryde Nubea Sema describes how he is working with colleagues to improve the mathematical experiences of his students.
Making mathematics relevant for students in Bali - Pryde Nubea SemaBuy MT2082425 for £3
From the classroom
"It's branded in our brains!" - Sue Caldwell
Sue Caldwell asks whether the spiral curriculum is simply taking students round in ever decreasing circles.
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Introducing exponentials - Derek WhiteBuy MT2081313 for £3
Derek White describes a lesson Dick Tahta taught to Derek’s sixth formers at Backwell Comprehensive School, North Somerset, in 1974.
Life after death by PowerPoint - Jenni IngramBuy MT2082021 for £3
Jenni Ingram describes how she uses PowerPoint to enhance her students’ learning.
Metaphor and metonymy - Alf ColesBuy MT2083437 for £3
Alf Coles reflects on how Dick Tahta and Caleb Gattegno demonstrated that mathematics teaching could be powerful, playful and relevant.
Research
Deconstructing calculation methods, part 4: Division - Ian ThompsonBuy MT2080608 for £3
In the final article of a series of four, Ian Thompson deconstructs the primary national strategy’s approach to written division. The other three articles in the series appeared in MT202, MT204 and MT206.
Promoting positive attitudes - Paul WilsonBuy MT2081416 for £3
Paul Wilson discusses the impact of pupils’ attitudes on their attainment in mathematics and the importance of fostering positive attitudes.
The Fractionkitapplet - Roger Duke, Alan Graham and Sue Johnston-WilderBuy MT2082831 for £3
Roger Duke, Alan Graham and Sue Johnston-Wilder describe a research initiative teaching fractions to 9- to 12-year-old pupils.
Mathematical thinking with lower-attaining pupils - Liz Woodham
Liz Woodham outlines her Master’s research into using NRICH resources to promote mathematical enrichment for all.
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Shorts
Number grid puzzles - Derek Ball
These puzzles were generated by the program Number grids, from the ATM CD Interactive Mathematics.
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Natural understandings of arithmetic - Yuliana Teper
It is well known that American students are fearful of mathematics.
Arms and the Spirograph® - Paul Stephenson
The article discusses the trifolium image, which is animated as a flicker-book throughout MT206.
The decimal point and the ths - Steve Chinn
Children’s misunderstandings of fundamental mathematical concepts tend to persevere, often into adulthood, and these confusions frequently underlie maths anxiety.
Five minutes of filtering in Excel - Sidney Tyrell
Excel’s Data Filter is an excellent tool which enables you to look at subsets of data; it is an extremely handy admin tool and is also useful for exploratory data analysis.
Crossing the boundary - Graham Curson
“Sir, how old are you?” There is a lot of mileage in responding to such impertinent individuals with: “Two billion seconds.”
The 11+ disaster - Hana Stewart
So the 11+ is not a great idea, it makes children grow apart after seven years of being together and makes some of them feel second class, which is not a good thing at our age.
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Regular features
Reflections - John Dabell
Surely we should be saying ‘thinking outside the regular square prism’, or ‘thinking outside the regular hexahedron’? We spend so much of our lives inside rectangular prisms and we are constantly encouraged to think outside of them.
Webwatch - Oliver Bowles
16 Correlation Street - Jonny Griffiths
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