Mental maths in action
Our aim as teachers is to discover what students are able to do, what are the most efficient and flexible strategies they are using, and foster those skills.
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That Test
So much has been written about that test, and the messages are confusing. Indigenous students’ literacy and numeracy skills have improved at twice the rate of their peers’ over the past decade, new NAPLAN data shows. Sydney Morning Herald 08/04/2019 … since 2008 there have been statistically significant gains and year levels, particularly at the…
Trading in the algorithm
A common concern that teachers often bring up is that their students solve number tasks mentally by ‘visualising’ the vertical algorithm. I’ve been asked a couple of times in the last month or so, How do I stop, or discourage my students from using a vertical algorithm?
Pedagogical Tetris
Considering ‘Tetris’. Mark Scott, Secretary of the NSW Department of Education (DoE), was recently part of a collaboration between The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) and the NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) in a get-together titled ‘Schools Summit – Future frameworks for challenging times’…
Getting reasoning right: Reflections on PAM conference 2019
Missed MANSW’s Primary And Middle years K-8 conference on Saturday? Here are some reflections of the day.
Taking your time with quick images
Sometimes the best way to get faster is to slow down. This is exactly what we as teachers should be doing to improve students’ mathematical fluency.
It’s time to think about why we write
The joy of writing; writing is more than just work for achieving an outcome.
Involving students in creating and representing mathematics
Representing student thinking needs to happen in-situ and needs to be negotiated with the students.
Representation and Response
‘Swapped at Birth’: an art exhibition which was part of the Adelaide Fringe Festival.
The importance of teaching not telling
If learning is an active process, what does that mean for me as the teacher and what is my role in the classroom?
