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Related: Maths • maths resourcesMaths Craft Festival — Maths Craft Thank you to everyone who came to the 2017 Maths Craft Festival and showed such enthusiasm for maths, craft, and learning something new. If you like what you've seen at the festival, have a look at our online resources. We love to see your photos of the event and what you created, so feel free to share any photos to our Facebook page or send us an email. Discover the maths behind craft and the craft behind maths at the Maths Craft Festival, Saturday and Sunday September 9-10 in the Events Centre at The Auckland Museum. Math Teachers Should Encourage Their Students to Count Using Their Fingers in Class A few weeks ago I (Jo Boaler) was working in my Stanford office when the silence of the room was interrupted by a phone call. A mother called me to report that her 5-year-old daughter had come home from school crying because her teacher had not allowed her to count on her fingers. This is not an isolated event—schools across the country regularly ban finger use in classrooms or communicate to students that they are babyish. This is despite a compelling and rather surprising branch of neuroscience that shows the importance of an area of our brain that “sees” fingers, well beyond the time and age that people use their fingers to count. In a study published last year, the researchers Ilaria Berteletti and James R. Booth analyzed a specific region of our brain that is dedicated to the perception and representation of fingers known as the somatosensory finger area.
8 Teaching Habits that Block Productive Struggle in Math Students Productive struggle is the kind of effortful learning that develops grit and creative problem solving. It results in students understanding content at a deeper level and applying that learning to more difficult and complex problems. It's what we want for all students. But did you know that some teaching methods could block students' potential for developing productive struggle in math? Here’s a roundup of information on some common teaching habits and their unintended consequences: 1.
Coaching Chronicles: Math Anchor Charts My last post described the anchor chart as a learning tool in classrooms across our school. I highlighted snapshots I took based on our reading instruction. I thought you might also like a glimpse into our anchor charts in mathematics. Some math anchors are displayed to help students conceptually understand and remember mathematical vocabulary. Furthermore, strategy charts play a prominent role. They are not charts that are premade and hung before instruction, rather are anchors built with students as new strategies emerge.
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Joel David Hamkins My recent talk, Playful Paradox with large numbers, infinity and logic, was a romp through various paradoxical topics in mathematics and logic for an audience of about 150 mathematics and philosophy undergraduate students at Fudan University in Shanghai, and since Fudan is reportedly a top-three university in China, you can expect that the audience was sharp. For a bit of fun, and in keeping with the theme, we decided to hold a Largest-Number Contest: what is the largest number that one can describe on an ordinary index card? My host Ruizhi Yang made and distributed announcement flyers for the contest a week before the talk, with a poster of the talk on one side, and a description of the contest rules on the other, and including a small card to be used for submissions. The rules were as follows:
‘Not a Math Person’: How to Remove Obstacles to Learning Math Stanford math education professor Jo Boaler spends a lot of time worrying about how math education in the United States traumatizes kids. Recently, a colleague’s 7-year-old came home from school and announced he didn’t like math anymore. His mom asked why and he said, “math is too much answering and not enough learning.” This story demonstrates how clearly kids understand that unlike their other courses, math is a performative subject, where their job is to come up with answers quickly. Boaler says that if this approach doesn’t change, the U.S. will always have weak math education. “There’s a widespread myth that some people are math people and some people are not,” Boaler told a group of parents and educators gathered at the 2015 Innovative Learning Conference.
Pearson Mathematics 3a: Stages 5-6, 2, Wilkinson Charlotte Pearson Mathematics is changing the way Mathematics is taught in New Zealand schools Written by New Zealand Mathematics Specialist Charlotte Wilkinson, Pearson Mathematics provides a whole-school print and online programme incorporating all strands of the New Zealand curriculum. Pearson Mathematics 3a is the first of two books for students working at Level 3 of the Mathematics and Statistics Curriculum. Pearson Mathematics Student Books The aim of the Pearson Mathematics Student Books is to bridge the gap between the Curriculum guidelines and the real world of the student. Attractive, uncluttered design encourages students to engage positively with the mathematical content.
Algebraic thinking Developing algebraic ideas and language Number tricks are fun for children. The fun, all by itself, is valuable, but is not mathematics. But understanding how the trick works is good mathematical, often algebraic, learning. And understanding a trick well enough lets children make up their own tricks.Under construction: Eventually, this will show many examples -- patterned growth, patterns in arithmetic, number tricks (like this one), and more -- and show ways that elementary school children can understand how they work."Think-of-a-number" tricks
Performance-Based Assessment: Making Math Relevant Joan: The students have ownerships of the material, and it clearly demonstrates their knowledge. Jeff: We ask our teachers is the performance that we want from kids short-term memory? Or do we want comprehensive understanding of big ideas? We use the term Performance-Based Assessment to challenge our teachers to put the measuring stick against the student demonstration of application. The performance of analysis. Student: Did you remember to go from North first?