Mathematics Teaching 141 - December 1992
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MT141 Contents
Models for teaching mathematics - Alan Wigley
This article is required reading for the Bowland Maths Regional Conferences.
The job of the teacher is to make it easy for students to learn. Or is it? Alan Wigley invites us to take a closer look at the curriculum we offer to learners of mathematics.
Trigonometry - Jeremy Richardson and Dorothy Sutherland
Jeremy Richardson and Dorothy Sutherland suggest a challenging approach to a key mathematical topic
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A wild thing - Jean Edwards
Mathematics is something young children can talk about. Jean Edwards explains how.
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Elevenses - Stewart Auty
Like most of us, Alison became confident about arithmetic calculations when she took control of what she was doing. Stewart Auty explains.
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Graphical calculators and investigations - Steve Humble
Using graphical calculators is one way of developing new styles of working with A-level students. Steve Humble describes what he has done.
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Making school mathematics real - Jo Boaler
This article is required reading for the Bowland Maths Regional Conferences.
How much of the mathematics learnt in school is of use in the real world? How can teachers teach mathematics so that students can make use of it? 10 Boaler has been finding out.
Maths around the world - Phil Dodd
I have obtained a lot of excellent work on shape from this activity...naming shapes...generally having fun.
Mathematics education in Britain and China - Wu Dawei
Wu Dawei is a Chinese mathematics educationalist who has been spending some time in England. How do British schools compare with Chinese schools? This is his view.
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Females fit the fitness bill - Brendan Routledge
The purpose of collecting and processing data is to help answer interesting questions, as Brendan Routledge and his pupils have been discovering.
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The angle sum of a triangle - Gershon Rosen and Nitsa Movshovitz-Hadar
How sure are you that 8 x 7 = 56? Or that a rectangle has two lines of symmetry? Before you answer perhaps you should read this letter to a pen friend, a copy of which has been sent to us by Gershon Rosen and Nitsa Movshovitz-Hadar.
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Authentic activity in learning primary mathematics - Bill Rawson
It is not easy to apply mathematics authentically within the classroom. Bill Rawson describes some collaborative work with infant teachers who were making effective use of the interests children brought into their classrooms.
Editorial
I was sad and angry at the prejudice which I felt these parents were showing. Where does it come from, this prejudice?
News and Views
In mathematics, chief examiners have considerable flexibility in the weight they give to particular objectives. The freedom is not always used to encourage improvements in standards and better classroom practice.
Personal View - Marjorie Gorman
It seems to me as a primary teacher I am concerned about making mathematics meaningful to children and involving them in their own learning. It seems that many secondary maths teachers share not only the same aims but often the same methods and the same problems.
