Finding the right combination
Once again, a big-name company has brought mathematics to the masses- without even knowing it! Macdonald’s® have their current offer on about choosing flavours for your frozen FANTA® drink.
Dialogic teaching and talking about writing
Dialogic teaching, a term created by Dr Robin Alexander in the early 2000s, harnesses the power of talk to stimulate and extend students’ thinking and advance their learning and understanding.
Floorstorming in mathematics
Heard of floorstorming? Annette in her recent resource Writing to Learn recommended a teaching strategy called floorstorming. This blog looks at this tool from a mathematical perspective.
Talking about writing
Two recent publications from the Primary English Teaching Association Australia (PETAA) have contributed to the topical subject of classroom talk, or ‘dialogic teaching’, which emphasises the ‘natural affordances and opportunities that dialogue gives children to learn.’
Assessment in mathematics
It’s that time of the year again when primary teachers shift their focus to collating assessment data to write end of semester reports to parents. So how do we make judgements in mathematics? And what does ‘high’ or ‘outstanding’ look and sound like in mathematics?
Writing and music
Written text can be like music – creative and exciting, thrilling and moving.
Making more room for mathematics
Are you are feeling that there is too much mathematics ‘to get through’ in your mathematics lessons? Here are a few examples of how to incorporate parts of your mathematics scope (outcomes) into other learning areas.