Mathematics Teaching 202 - May 2007
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MT202 Contents
Cultivating creativity - Jennifer Piggott
Jennifer shares her thoughts on creative teaching and how it can encourage creative learners.
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Co-ordinates: When am I old enough? - Geoff Faux
Geoff pleads for freedom from Cartesian co-ordinates at key stage 2 to make space for some classical geometry.
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Conditions for learning: Responding to Barbara and Derek Ball - Paul Andrews
Paul argues that the mathematical needs of our children demand conformity to a coherent curricular and pedagogical tradition, rather than the encouragement of many.
On rebecoming unfamiliar - Paul Stephenson
Paul describes two experiences which led him to look again at a familiar diagram.
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Asking the right questions - Students at Nottingham Trent University
Mathematics specialists on a four year primary BA course share some of theirr recent thinking about how they can develop the skills and understandings that help us become mathematical.
Mathematical behaviour - Colin Foster
Colin suggests that important mathematical ways of working are sometimes labeled as 'bad behaviour'.
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The all, most and some of learning objectives - Andrew Blair
Andrew asks whether objective-led lessons are leading us down the wrong path.
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What's basic in mathematics? - Thomas O'Brien and Ann Moss
Thomas and Ann offer some games that challenge children to make sense of mathematics and to explain, justify, predict, compare and derive ideas.
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Learning geometry through dynamic geometry software - Sue Forsythe
Sue investigates effective teaching and learning of geometrical concepts using dynamic geometry software.
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Turning round Year 9 - David Shinkfield
David describes how he tried to improve the mathematical learning behaviour of pupils in his Year 9 class.
Appendix to accompany this article.
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Deconstructing calculation methods: Part 1 - Ian Thompson
In the first of several articles, Ian deconstructs the primary strategy’s approach to written addition.
The same difference - Ian Sugarman
Ian highlights a mental strategy for subtraction, overlooked by the primary strategy, that offers a more child-friendly alternative to decomposition.
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Dick Tahta 1928-2006
For one who inspired several generations of teachers, Dick was always reticent about his own achievements.
Is this an open question? - Derek Ball
She did not actually say “A joke’s a joke, but you can go too far, you know, Grandad”.
Doing my homework - Debbie Barker
“I did the game...and so did my mum and my sister and my mum’s carer...and my granny!”
To personalise, just SMILE - Rachel Gibbons
At a time when truanting is rising, we cannot afford to neglect those movements that have encouraged pupils to come back into school voluntarily.
Maths is when... - John Dabell
Maths is when the penny drops, when you walk on water, when you levitate, when you see the light and fly without wings.
Reflections - Keith Windsor
It may be more important to consider what we haven’t learned at the end of a teaching session?
10 Correlation Street - Jonny Griffiths
...which does not mean that a little healthy scepticism about the whole rigmarole of exams is forbidden.
Webwatch - Bryan Dye
I fail to see why software producers still persist in publishing stand-alone CDs of material.
News from ATM
We have some very talented members who have exciting ideas for teaching mathematics, and the publications group would like to encourage writers, both established and new.
Hod-Lines
I feel incredibly positive that we can turn this situation, in which we feel judged and demoralised, into really valuable professional development activity.
Puzzle page
If you have any problems or puzzles you would like to contribute, the editors would love to hear from you.
