‘A picture is worth a thousand words’ is the classic adage interpreted to mean that multiple ideas or concepts can be expressed often by a single image. Or that an image may be a better way of explaining or expressing a complex idea than using words (verbally). For me, a picture is worth a thousand…
I’m not sure what weekend family nights look like at your house, but at ours it fluctuates between movies or games. My eldest daughter follows my own passion for games, recently it was Mahjong and this week it was monopoly! Oh no, not monopoly I hear a plethora of parents cry! Oh yes, monopoly. The…
A few weeks ago I shared a tweet about arrays after discovering a great website (sineofthetimes.org) by Daniel Scher (@dpscher). I really appreciated the dynamic application he had created using Web Sketchpad to make and explore arrays. It’s quite simple in its design but I think that’s the beauty of it – no additional distractions…
Well in NSW today, it is back to school for everyone! We wish all the students and teachers a great day and hope classes go smoothly, friendships are reformed, and teachers get the ‘virtual’ high five (or five hundred) they deserve! Today’s blog is full of mathematical goodness. If you are stuck for a game…
This week’s blog highlights some of the great messages and ideas shared at MANSW’s online conference Different By Design that took place on Saturday. Although we would have loved to have experienced the conference in person, the online event in its place this year was still a way to bring together teachers and educators and…
It’s week 6 of the school Term in NSW and we continue to be remote learning. I thought I’d share some awesome tasks, games, sites, ideas, and apps that I’ve been using or I’ve seen being shared around recently on social media. Thought it might be nice to see some of these all in the…
This week’s blog is inspired by research that James Russo, Toby Russo, and Leicha Bragg have recently conducted (and will present at the upcoming MERGA online conference) about factors that influence the mathematical games teachers’ choose. They propose a number of factor themes related to why teachers choose specific games – I will utilise these themes to share a…
If you’re teaching Year 5 or Year 6, then this question is one I’d ask your students this week. Last week when I was talking with a Year 5 student, we needed to solve 12 x 18 as part of a larger problem. When I asked, do you know how to work out 12 x…
The Mathematical Association of NSW’s (@MathsNSW) annual Pre K-8 conference was held last Friday and Saturday. What a wonderful opportunity it was to meet up with other teachers and educators to chat and learn about mathematics. Last year the conference was unable to go ahead so it’s been a while since could meet together face-to-face…
I was inspired a few weeks ago by a Twitter post I found that Mrs. Unsworth’s (@MrsUnsworthWTT) had previously shared about using a concrete hundreds chart to visualise skip counting. I really loved the way the students moved across the mat to show how they were counting. I thought this was an excellent way to…