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?
Written text can be like music – creative and exciting, thrilling and moving.
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.
Student voice in mathematics, and the teacher’s ability to create opportunities for mathematical discourse focused on students’ ways of thinking and working, is at the heart of quality teaching.
The voices and ideas of the teachers, academics, writers and children at PETAA’s ‘Professional Learning Intensive’ “Writing the Future” radiated from the ‘pages’ of their presentations.
Students need all teachers and carers in their lives across their schooling life to be passionate about mathematics, its usefulness and its beauty, and every students’ ability to improve in mathematics. Only when all our attitudes towards mathematics change will we see students’ confidence and choices regarding mathematics change.
Total immersion indeed. PETAA’s ‘Professional Learning Intensive’ was described as presenting writing ‘to teachers in context’. It did that and more in this two days of professional learning for educators from all over the country.
Understanding the language of mathematics plays a large role in students becoming numerate. Whether it’s the language of mathematics or mathematical language, it’s new for all of us.
Investing in our profession by joining a professional organisation makes sense. We want increased credibility as teachers, we want the world to understand the expanding complexities of the teaching process…
Finding appropriate resources and lesson ideas for the mathematics classroom can be one of the many challenges for both beginning and experienced teachers.
