MT216i Jan 10 • Contents
Ten minute tables with a number stick...
Jill Mansergh says “I’ll teach you your 17 times table in 10 minutes.” Now, there’s a challenge!
Three times table rap
Margaret Jones chooses a rap video clip of the 3 times table and considers how it would fit into her sequence of teaching for the three times table.
Conan checking-in
Helen Williams was a visitor to the classroom and as she entered (with her bag) she was immediately spotted by Conan, who asked if she wanted to be ‘checked in’.
Looking Back • Unfolding Geometry
A video entitled ‘The gherkin shapes up’ with the teachers and pupils who took part in a project which is entitled Unfolding Geometry in MT216.
Looking Back • Stretching the comfort zone
‘Stretching the Comfort Zone’ was part of the QCDA project Engaging Mathematics for All Learners. In MT216 Sara Santos wrote about the project. Here we can see the accompanying video entitled ‘Cutting the Cloth to Fit’.
Looking Back • Inclusive mathematics classrooms
In Mathematics Teaching 216 Mike Ollerton considered Inclusive Mathematics Classrooms and his work in several schools as part of the project. These videos consider the impact in Belper High School and Baliol School.
Looking Forward • Anamorphic Art
In MT 217 to be published in March 2010 John Sharpe will show how to create a plane anamorphosis and how it differs from perspective. Here he introduces Anamorphic Art and gives us links to some interesting web sites in preparation for what is to follow in the March article.
Looking Forward • An ocean of possibilities
Doug Williams has a thought-provoking article coming up in MT218, March 2010. Here he gives you a glimpse of what is to come.
The dangers of listening in
Derek Ball and Jonny Griffiths were intrigued by a problem, ‘Pineapple Triangles’, enough to go away and communicate by e-mail as they worked on it collaboratively. In this article you can follow their lines of thought as they work together and maybe work on their challenge.
I’ll show you mine...
An invitation to look around a colleague’s classroom and think further about the importance of a comfortable and attractive learning environment.
The Mechanics of Snooker
Siyan Cheung explores the mathematics linked to the game of snooker. She also points us towards YouTube where video clips can be seen of her favourite shots.
RISP
Jonny Griffiths from Paston College , Norfolk, investigates the volume, surface area and total edge-length of a cube. The ways in which they can be connected are something of a leitmotif in his RISPs.
Having fun with statistics
Douglas Butler explores the use of ICT in the teaching and learning of statistics. First he sources some useful data on the web, then offers ways of using Excel and Autograph to bring it to life.
The Interactive White Board saved my life
Michael Bawtree was born too soon. He saw the potential of the IWB before many other professionals. He embraced the technology not as a ‘gizmo’ but as a tool to enhance the learning of mathematics in his classroom.
Overnight Solution re-visited
George Knights offers a different solution to the problem ‘Overnight Solution’ that was in Mathematics Teaching 214i. Do you have a different solution?
Provocation 7
This is another in the series of ‘eavesdropped’ conversations between two colleagues who are fellow travellers, having been involved in mathematics education for many years.
Breaking Out
John Hibbs has some words for those teachers currently thinking about ‘functional’, ‘real’ or even ‘relevant’ mathematics.
Nine chapters on the mathematical art
Leo Rogers talks about this classical collection of Chinese material, which was brought together in the first century AD.
Towards a new mathematics curriculum
Curriculum development in mathematics is an ever present challenge. If as mathematics educators we could agree a set of outcomes for the learners, say at the end of KS2, what might they be? How many are achievable? Would there be a clear hierarchy? What descriptors would be useful? How would you approach the task?
MTi goes hexagonal
Step inside - readers have sent us problems to delight and entertain. Some to think on, some to work on and some to comment on.
