In Our Classrooms
Deliver content through exploration: develop mathematical thinking
Key Stage suitability • Explanation
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This book contains accounts of teachers working in their classrooms to develop their pupils’ mathematics. It is not a work-scheme. There is a variety of approaches which are used instead of, or in parallel with, published schemes. The intention is, through reflecting on the lesson accounts, to identify general strategies which can be used in many contexts. The strategies which the working group have identified are listed at the foot of each page, but these are not meant to be exhaustive. You might find others which appear useful to you in your practice.
The strategies can be applied in any classroom and in any context.
Any teachers looking for ways to deliver content through exploration and to develop mathematical thinking in individual pupils, will enjoy this useful and helpful book.
ISBN 0 900095 89 X
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Teaching is a highly individualised art. What works well for one teacher may not necessarily work for another. What is important is that each teacher can take an idea and work on it so that it becomes part of their style. Teaching style is often an amalgam of various strategies which an individual teacher has found to be effective in the task of allowing their pupils to learn. Often new strategies are found through observing other teachers at work or by working together with a group of teachers discussing practice. This book attempts to share the work of one such group.
To develop our teaching we have found it useful to have a clear idea of what children are entitled to and to explore, through reflecting upon our classroom experiences, how mathematics is learnt.
The hope is that you will recognise some of your own strategies in this book and be encouraged to try out others as part of your personal development. The contributors to this book have learnt from each other’s ideas, enthusiasms and general teaching strategies.
In fact we invite you to send your ideas to us with the aim of contributing towards the production of a future publication. The activities which form the main part of this book were contributed by teachers from all over the country, with 2 to 20 years' teaching experience, in a variety of different schools. Some use mainly published schemes supplemented with ideas from other sources, and others use no published schemes at all. Activities should be balanced between different modes of learning, doing, observing, talking and listening, discussing with other pupils, reflecting, drafting, reading and writing, etc.
Contents
- How to Use this Book
- Coordinates
- Max Box
- Number and Handling Data
- Polygons
- Pythagoras
- Transformations
- Reflections
Contributors
- Laurinda Brown
- Margaret Jones
- Jools Oatridge
- Mike Ollerton
- Geri Rowe
- Michelle Selinger
- Anne Turnbull
- Charlie Wall
- Anne Watson
- Aled Williams
Photograph: Nigel Hudson • Designer: Erika Pye
