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Mathematics Teaching 197 - Jul 2006
Mathematics Teaching is the journal of the Association of Teachers of Mathematics. It is a professional journal sent to all members of the Association. It is not a refereed journal. Submissions are reviewed by the editorial team. Many articles have additional information or associated files placed on the journal website. To make your views known go to the ATM forum add your views, ideas and comments.
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MT197 Contents
Mathematics lessons without... - Kath Cross and John Hibbs
In their opening address to the ATM Easter conference, 2006, Kath Cross and John Hibbs discuss aspects of mathematics lessons they think are important.
Maths without... - Julie Millard and Lindsay Taylor
Julie Millard and Lindsay Taylor give their views of this year's conference.
Learning to teach - Tim's story - Tim Rowland with Gill Hatch
This article is both a sequel and a companion to the account by Gill Hatch published in MT196, of her experience in her first teaching post, as a College of Education Assistant Lecturer. A chance remark by Gill in 2001 made Tim aware that their careers as mathematics teachers had begun in similar environments. They set about compiling a joint record of their recollections of their experiences and found these autobiographical accounts fertile territory for some reflections on mathematics teacher education - their own included.
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Maths without... - Julie Millard and Lindsay Taylor
Julie Millard and Lindsay Taylor give their views of this year's conference.
Migrating from 2D to 3D in Autograph - Douglas Butler
Douglas Butler looks at ways of teaching 2D topics that make the transition to 3D painless and intriguing.
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The Magic Box - Enhancing interactivity - Dave Miller
Dave Miller describes how to create and use a 'Magic Box' on an interactive whiteboard to enhance pupils' mathematical thinking.
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Data handling and citizenship - Gwen Tresidder
Gwen Tresidder describes how her year 8 pupils designed their own statistical research into life in a London school.
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Mathematics isn't easy - Sandra Pendlington
Sandra Pendlington looks at strategies to help low achievers persist with learning mathematics.
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Number tracks, number lines, number strips... Are they all the same? - Paola Iannone
Paola Iannone argues that there is a big conceptual difference between number lines and number strips and that number lines should be consistently used as early as Y1.
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Some photographs from the Easter Conference 2006 - Pauline Nield
Conference gallery: more photos from Pauline Nield and Lief Kragh
Mathematics and peer coaching: Mark McCourt
Thoughtful use of coaching can move students to a position where they can access the material set out in the national curriculum. They can engage.
Take seven digits - Keith Windsor
There are lots of problems involving creating number sentences from selected digits.
Overheard - Diana Cobden
“I know,” he said, “I’m going to write the square root of 100 because I know that is 10.”
Comment on Ofsted - Evaluating mathematics provision for 14 - 19 year olds - Margaret Jones
In many of the lessons seen, the teaching had some strengths, but lacked sufficient flair, imagination and challenge to get the best from students.
Reflections - Tony Cotton
High self esteem allows learners to have confidence in their own abilities and to take on the challenge and struggle that we undertake when we learn mathematics.
5 Correlation Street - Jonny Griffiths
I am her torturer, and as the world has so painfully learnt, saying I am simply following orders is no defence.
Webwatch - Joanne Walpole
If you can’t find activities here for your pupils then I don’t know where you will.
Professional Officer's Update - David Cowley
I will have spoken to well over a thousand teachers, consultants and advisers, encouraging them to be aware of the work of the ATM.
HodLines
In my visits to schools I was always fascinated to see what shared space the maths department had and how it was used.
News from ATM
Ever struggled with students who just don’t seem to understand when two algebraic expressions are equivalent?
Puzzle page
Julie Gibbon is a part time teacher at The Gillford Centre PRU in Carlisle.
The link in MT197 is dead! So here is the Psychic Puzzler:
The Psychic Puzzler is here (you need Flash Player to run it)
