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Mathematics Teaching 207 - March 2008
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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MT207 Contents
A congruence challenge - Francis Lopez-Real
Francis Lopez-Real considers for different categories of shapes whether having equal areas and equal perimeters implies congruence.
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Farewell coursework! - Loraine Rigglesford
Loraine Rigglesford laments the loss of coursework from GCSE mathematics and questions the process by which the decision was taken.
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Learning about primes - Alec McEachran
Alec McEachran describes a teaching approach to prime numbers which does more than just define and list them.
Circle theorems against the clock - Matt Dunbar
Matt Dunbar describes how a 12-pin circular geoboard can be used to introduce, explore and represent circle theorem geometry.
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The city of mathematics - Adrian Watts and Class 4A
Adrian Watts and Class 4A spent a few months of last year developing some novel ideas, and finally the City of Mathematics is built!
Visualising combinations - Louise Ordman
Louise Ordman works with her statistics students on combinations without resorting to telling them everything.
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The Koch snowflake - Jerry Dwyer, Mike Keating and Sonya Sherrod
Jerry Dwyer, Mike Keating and Sonya Sherrod describe an investigative lesson into the properties of the Koch snowflake.
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Functioning with geometry and fractions - Derek Ball and Barbara Ball
Derek Ball and Barbara Ball describe the thinking that has arisen from looking at pictures of polygons within polygons.
A different way - Chris Carter
Chris Carter describes his school's attempt to devise an alternative curriculum for Year 9.
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Much ado about nothing - Rona Catterall
Rona Catterall describes her research into 5 to 11-year-olds' use of the language of zero.
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Understanding students' understanding of functions - Recai Akkus, Brian Hand, and Jennifer Seymour
Recai Akkus, Brian Hand and Jennifer Seymour describe the insights they gained when working with students on multiple representations of functions.
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Sum puzzles - Ian Jones
Ian Jones describes his recent work with Year 5 children on their understanding of the equals sign when solving problems.
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Thinking through, and by, visualising - Jennifer Piggott and Liz Woodham
Jennifer Piggott and Liz Woodham highlight some of the visualising experiences they think are important for all learners.
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Learning through teaching - Jane Eades
I discovered yet another example of the appalling effect that poor maths teaching has on individuals.
More for the trisector - Paul Stephenson
Here is a device indispensable to those trisecting (acute) angles.
Pivot tables in seven minutes - Sidney Tyrrell
Pivot tables are fearsome to some and yet the answer to everything to others.
Reflections - Karen Hancock
It's a busy life being a teacher - we all know that. So how often do you stop and have a moment's reflection?
Webwatch - Peter Hall
I’ve noticed that almost all of my students seem permanently plugged into their music players - and I am starting to find ways of encouraging them to listen to maths!
15 Correlation Street - Jonny Griffiths
Gavin stood and made for the corridor. “At least Arsene Wenger had a go, Jonny”, he said, calmly now. ‘Enjoy your book.’
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