Mathematics Teaching 195 - Mar 2006
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MT195 Contents
Developing mathematical thinking - Graham Jones
Working with his daughter and her friend on a problem-solving task gave Graham the opportunity to reconsider how best he might help. Graham has published a more recent article with the same title in 'My Child' magazine.
Ideas for the classroom - Gill Hatch
Gill Hatch (1937 - 2005) was a creative mathematician who had the gift of inventing activities that helped people to learn mathematics.
Quadratic functions to print on to card
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Interacting with the geometry of the circle - Piggott and Gilderdale
Jennifer and Charlie describe a free interactive circular geoboard environment that can lead learners to pose mathematical questions.
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The decimal number system and young children - John Harrison
A 'decimal helical number line' has advantages over conventional number lines and number squares, according to John.
Suggested activities with NumDrum
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Why would anyone want to do that? - Mike Askew
Two incidents cause Mike to ask whether learners appreciate what motivates mathematicians and the power of asking 'what if?'
The Hungarian hexagon - Jackie Palmer
Jackie reports on a League for the Exchange of Commonwealth Teachers (LECT) study visit to Budapest.
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Modular arithmetic and Year 8 - Eligio Cerval-Peña
Eligio describes what happened when he decided to teach university-level mathematics to Y8.
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What mathematics is really about - James Robinson
James's view of mathematics: skills, tools and problems.
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Group and individual work - Victoria Williamson
Victoria compares how her pupils responded to the same tasks when working individually and in small groups.
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Dynamic Gliding - Jeremy Burke, Sheara Cowen, Saínza Fernandez and Maria Wesslén
The authors believe that glide reflections complete pupils' repertoire of geometric transformations.
Worksheet and GSP file to accompany this article
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Habits of mind - Anne Watson
Anne shares some ideas about mathematical habits that have become more and more powerful for her.
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Imagery, spatial ability and problem solving - Heather McLeay
Heather describes a pilot study to investigate the extent to which learners use imagery in a variety of spatial problems.
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Friday 13th - Ruth Tanner
Ruth describes what she sees on her first visit to BETT.
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Financial capability - Peter Pool
Peter questions what constitutes financial capability in the modern world.
The n kg chicken - Tony Cotton
“I’ve got to work out how long to cook a chicken that weighs n kg. What’s a chicken that weighs n kg?”
My accidental parabola - Colin Foster
“This is really supposed to be a lesson on straight line graphs.”
1955: 50 years on: more responses - Robin Stewart
We have received many responses to our challenge in MT193.
Reflections - Dick Tahta
What is the difference between 36 and 29? What was your answer? Can you see why another way of putting this question might be to ask what is the difference between teaching mathematics in a primary school, a secondary school, a university?
3 Correlation Street - Jonny Griffiths
To try to create a politics-free mathematics pedagogy is to try to create a pale image of the real thing.
Webwatch
Every mathematics teacher seems to have a personal collection of websites they use in the classroom. Would you consider sharing your top websites?
Professional Officer's Viewpoint
ATM believes that it is how students are taught rather than what they are taught which is the key to helping them to become confident and competent in mathematics.
Hod-Lines
I think I should see it as my responsibility to ensure that I am noticing and praising their mathematics not their compliance.
