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MT Journal - ATM Forum http://www.atm.org.uk/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?board=mtjournal MT Journal - ATM Forum en-us ATM Forum Thu, 17 May 2012 07:33:48 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss YaBB 2.5 AE Revision: 1.29 30 MT226 The future for mathematics subject associations http://www.atm.org.uk/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1327928940 ATM Forum/MT Journal http://www.atm.org.uk/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1327928940 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:09:00 GMT In my article I suggested that the modern subject associations' purposes include • providing a professional home which transcends teachers’ immediate work context and enables them to explore with others the nature of the subjects they teach and how best to enable learning • facilitating local, regional and national events that enable shared learning • informing members and the wider community of developments in the subject • collating the views of practitioners and experts to influence policymakers To what extent do you agree? Are there other purposes? Is this enough to ensure a vibrant and sustainable community? I look forward to hearing from you. MT208 - "It's branded in our brains!" b http://www.atm.org.uk/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1214579252 ATM Forum/MT Journal http://www.atm.org.uk/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1214579252 Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:57:49 GMT Nice article.It's very interesting post.I like driving to crazy. Provocation – a conversation between two old men! http://www.atm.org.uk/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1227612171 ATM Forum/MT Journal http://www.atm.org.uk/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1227612171 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:26:08 GMT Students learn what they think about Multimedia File Viewing and Clickable Links are available for Registered Members only!! You need to <a href="http://www.atm.org.uk/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?action=login;sesredir=num~1227612171"><img src="http://www.atm.org.uk/forum/yabbfiles/Templates/Forum/default/login.gif" alt="Login" title="Login" border="0" /> Login</a> or <a href="http://www.atm.org.uk/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?action=register"><img src="http://www.atm.org.uk/forum/yabbfiles/Templates/Forum/default/register.gif" alt="Register" title="Register" border="0" /> Register</a>. so if teachers emphasise grades or targets, then students will learn about how to collect points for grades or targets, not mathematics. I write from Portland, OR, USA where grades and grading are an obsessive focus for many teachers. Percentage-based grades (often to three decimal places!) are posted every other day in some classrooms. Kids constantly ask, what's my grade? Rarely, what do I need to do to improve? And the percentage gives them no hint to answer that question. As I was trained in the UK I have tried to inform my teaching in the US with what I learned in the UK. My apologies if MT has covered this in depth, but the single most useful summary of the damaging effect of grades plus the alternatives comes from Prof Black and his colleagues in the Working Inside the Black Box series, particularly Mathematics Inside the Black Box. See: Multimedia File Viewing and Clickable Links are available for Registered Members only!! You need to <a href="http://www.atm.org.uk/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?action=login;sesredir=num~1227612171"><img src="http://www.atm.org.uk/forum/yabbfiles/Templates/Forum/default/login.gif" alt="Login" title="Login" border="0" /> Login</a> or <a href="http://www.atm.org.uk/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?action=register"><img src="http://www.atm.org.uk/forum/yabbfiles/Templates/Forum/default/register.gif" alt="Register" title="Register" border="0" /> Register</a> If I might brazenly promote my own PiFactory blog... see Multimedia File Viewing and Clickable Links are available for Registered Members only!! You need to <a href="http://www.atm.org.uk/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?action=login;sesredir=num~1227612171"><img src="http://www.atm.org.uk/forum/yabbfiles/Templates/Forum/default/login.gif" alt="Login" title="Login" border="0" /> Login</a> or <a href="http://www.atm.org.uk/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?action=register"><img src="http://www.atm.org.uk/forum/yabbfiles/Templates/Forum/default/register.gif" alt="Register" title="Register" border="0" /> Register</a> for a comprehensive review. Black and friends conclude: Research experiments have established that, whilst pupils’ learning can be advanced by feedback through comments, the giving of marks — or grades — has a negative effect in that pupils ignore comments when marks are also given (Butler, 1988). “These results often surprise teachers, but those who have abandoned the giving of marks find that their experience confirms the findings: pupils do engage more productively in improving their work,” says the Black team. “The central point here is that, to be effective, feedback should cause thinking to take place… the assessment of pupils’ work will be seen less as a competitive and summative judgement and more as a distinctive step in the process of learning. “The key to effective learning is to then find ways to help pupils restructure their knowledge to build in new and more powerful ideas… that learning was not a process of passive reception of knowledge, but one in which the learners were active in creating their own understandings. Put simply, it became clear that, no matter what the pressure to achieve good test and examination scores, learning cannot be done for the pupil; it has to be done by the pupil.” Mathematics Inside the Black Box, which also includes lots of examples and techniques that can be taken straight into the classroom, is available from GL Assessment: Multimedia File Viewing and Clickable Links are available for Registered Members only!! You need to <a href="http://www.atm.org.uk/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?action=login;sesredir=num~1227612171"><img src="http://www.atm.org.uk/forum/yabbfiles/Templates/Forum/default/login.gif" alt="Login" title="Login" border="0" /> Login</a> or <a href="http://www.atm.org.uk/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?action=register"><img src="http://www.atm.org.uk/forum/yabbfiles/Templates/Forum/default/register.gif" alt="Register" title="Register" border="0" /> Register</a> Also Competitive grading still sabotages good teaching is worth a read. Multimedia File Viewing and Clickable Links are available for Registered Members only!! You need to <a href="http://www.atm.org.uk/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?action=login;sesredir=num~1227612171"><img src="http://www.atm.org.uk/forum/yabbfiles/Templates/Forum/default/login.gif" alt="Login" title="Login" border="0" /> Login</a> or <a href="http://www.atm.org.uk/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?action=register"><img src="http://www.atm.org.uk/forum/yabbfiles/Templates/Forum/default/register.gif" alt="Register" title="Register" border="0" /> Register</a> Discomfort with MT216 http://www.atm.org.uk/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1258288104 ATM Forum/MT Journal http://www.atm.org.uk/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1258288104 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:28:24 GMT Does anyone else feel a bit weird about the latest MT? The fact that it's brought to us by The Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency? I'm finding it hard to verbalise right now but I think that it feels a bit like it's been highjacked... MT215 Inverse of a 2 x 2 matrix http://www.atm.org.uk/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1252771029 ATM Forum/MT Journal http://www.atm.org.uk/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1252771029 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:22:56 GMT you are not going wrong, you are right the article is wrong. The Forum in the Journal http://www.atm.org.uk/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1258199052 ATM Forum/MT Journal http://www.atm.org.uk/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1258199052 Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:44:12 GMT Hi there I was thinking that a lot of members whose only interaction with the ATM is through MT might benefit from knowing that there is a forum more...perhaps there could be a small section each journal with some quotes or an announcement of a new discussion that is going to be hosted on the forum...but whatever we do I think that the forum is far too underused and could be made less so by more interaction with the Journal... Also why can't the login for the main site log you into the forum as well? Chris Millgate House Education - is MT a vehicle for hidden advertising? http://www.atm.org.uk/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1253043260 ATM Forum/MT Journal http://www.atm.org.uk/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1253043260 Tue, 3 Nov 2009 13:07:58 GMT Hi Stuart and Brenda, David runs the excellent music sessions at ATM Easter conference each year and that's always an excellent place to catch him for high quality conversation. I've tried to tempt him to BCME7 but have failed so far.... go on - come over David, we have the house now so the offer of accommodation still stands.... so you might have to wait until 2011. I suggest a pint (or 4) rather than a cuppa - you guys would get on well. Rebecca <img src="http://www.atm.org.uk/forum/yabbfiles/Templates/Forum/default/cool.gif" border="0" alt="Cool" title="Cool" /> Re Mental Mathematics Article - Sue Davis http://www.atm.org.uk/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1255286526 ATM Forum/MT Journal http://www.atm.org.uk/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1255286526 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:42:06 GMT Hello, I have once again enjoyed reading MT. (Must say I prefer the paper versions!) For the first time, I have felt the need to contact ATM about one of the articles in the Journal. Towards the back, Sue Davis writes an article about mental mathematics calculations in which she shares some observations she made on her primary maths trainees. Am I alone in being deeply concerned that the Primary PGCE students were 4 weeks from the end of their course when they were first being challenged to carry out mathematical calculations mentally? Sue writes from the point of view of being concerned that evidence shows that pupils are not fully aware of strategies and that mental mathematics in Primary school still needs work, but doesn't seem to see the link between the training and the outcome. As a Secondary maths teacher, it seems to me that the first and most important aspect of mathematics to address with those training to teach in a primary school would be a range of techniques for carrying out addition, subtraction and multiplication mentally and on paper. What other mathematical skills are they learning first? MT 215 General and an appeal for help. http://www.atm.org.uk/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1253306584 ATM Forum/MT Journal http://www.atm.org.uk/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1253306584 Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:43:04 GMT Hi, Another excellent edition and I can go back to reading it in the bath - ideal when you've got a stinking cold. Are you aware what I'm up to on the NCETM discussion forums? Have the old men seen Multimedia File Viewing and Clickable Links are available for Registered Members only!! You need to <a href="http://www.atm.org.uk/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?action=login;sesredir=num~1253306584"><img src="http://www.atm.org.uk/forum/yabbfiles/Templates/Forum/default/login.gif" alt="Login" title="Login" border="0" /> Login</a> or <a href="http://www.atm.org.uk/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?action=register"><img src="http://www.atm.org.uk/forum/yabbfiles/Templates/Forum/default/register.gif" alt="Register" title="Register" border="0" /> Register</a> I'm not revealing anything but I have plans for it and you might want to watch. Over the last year I've been working hard to help develop maths education through all forums available, including the NCETM, which is beginning to prove useful. I regularly recommend good ATM resources on it and make sensible links such as Multimedia File Viewing and Clickable Links are available for Registered Members only!! You need to <a href="http://www.atm.org.uk/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?action=login;sesredir=num~1253306584"><img src="http://www.atm.org.uk/forum/yabbfiles/Templates/Forum/default/login.gif" alt="Login" title="Login" border="0" /> Login</a> or <a href="http://www.atm.org.uk/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?action=register"><img src="http://www.atm.org.uk/forum/yabbfiles/Templates/Forum/default/register.gif" alt="Register" title="Register" border="0" /> Register</a>. I spend most of my time just replying to people who post, trying to be a sounding board to help them build confidence in their own judgement and move them in the direction of deeper teaching, but right now I could do with any help I can get on this Multimedia File Viewing and Clickable Links are available for Registered Members only!! You need to <a href="http://www.atm.org.uk/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?action=login;sesredir=num~1253306584"><img src="http://www.atm.org.uk/forum/yabbfiles/Templates/Forum/default/login.gif" alt="Login" title="Login" border="0" /> Login</a> or <a href="http://www.atm.org.uk/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?action=register"><img src="http://www.atm.org.uk/forum/yabbfiles/Templates/Forum/default/register.gif" alt="Register" title="Register" border="0" /> Register</a> to keep the discussion alive and help raise awareness. Don't suppose anyone at the ATM has actually been positively invovled with this by any chance? One of my key projects has been to interact positively with the resources they've been creating for training Heads of Department. I'm really worried about the quality of what's been written, based as it is around the deeply flawed OFSTED report. After months of trying to get involved I'm now trying to offer something else through the consultation forum (you have to log in for this one but please do). Multimedia File Viewing and Clickable Links are available for Registered Members only!! You need to <a href="http://www.atm.org.uk/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?action=login;sesredir=num~1253306584"><img src="http://www.atm.org.uk/forum/yabbfiles/Templates/Forum/default/login.gif" alt="Login" title="Login" border="0" /> Login</a> or <a href="http://www.atm.org.uk/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?action=register"><img src="http://www.atm.org.uk/forum/yabbfiles/Templates/Forum/default/register.gif" alt="Register" title="Register" border="0" /> Register</a> Anyway, if anyone has any comments for me feel free to send me them through this site if you don't have an NCETM log-in (although I don't log in regularly so it may take me a while to respond). Thanks, Rebecca embeding numeracy/maths http://www.atm.org.uk/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1244476446 ATM Forum/MT Journal http://www.atm.org.uk/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1244476446 Mon, 8 Jun 2009 15:54:06 GMT Hi there i 'm on my first year of full time teaching maths, i'm looking for ideas and resources (journals, books) on embeding numeracy and fostering mathematical thinking. any suggestion is welcome. many thanks MT214 MATHEMAGIC ON THE MOTORWAY http://www.atm.org.uk/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1242984205 ATM Forum/MT Journal http://www.atm.org.uk/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1242984205 Fri, 22 May 2009 09:23:25 GMT I happen to be in hospital with my son so have more time than usual to actually rise to the challenge... Not only can I tell you that the sum of the 6 combinations is always double the sum of all the numbers in the squares, but, with help from Excel I can tell you that for a 4 by 4 there are 24 combinations (ie:4! as expected) but the total is 6 times the sum of all the numbers in the squares ie: (n-1)! x total. x 2 3 8 4 5 10 15 40 20 7 14 21 56 28 12 24 36 96 48 13 26 39 104 52 sums 74 111 296 148 629 in total gives sums of different combinations of products 179 177 147 138 178 181 171 130 153 174 169 135 183 142 131 163 154 141 139 145 173 169 137 165 1020 984 894 876 3774 in total and 3774 is 6 x 629. I predict a 5 by 5 would have 120 combinations and total would be 24 x sum of squares but even with time on my hands I don't think I will do it! Maybe I will write a computer program to.... EAC Moved: 'Art and Science of designing a maths problem' http://www.atm.org.uk/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1237024930 ATM Forum/MT Journal http://www.atm.org.uk/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1237024930 Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:33:46 GMT This Multimedia File Viewing and Clickable Links are available for Registered Members only!! You need to <a href="http://www.atm.org.uk/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?action=login;sesredir=num~1237024930"><img src="http://www.atm.org.uk/forum/yabbfiles/Templates/Forum/default/login.gif" alt="Login" title="Login" border="0" /> Login</a> or <a href="http://www.atm.org.uk/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?action=register"><img src="http://www.atm.org.uk/forum/yabbfiles/Templates/Forum/default/register.gif" alt="Register" title="Register" border="0" /> Register</a> has been moved to Multimedia File Viewing and Clickable Links are available for Registered Members only!! 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