Discussion:
- Teaching rounds
- Issues and topics for discussion
- Assessment tasks
- Submission
- Electronic copies
- PoLT
- CAS ( TI-nspire)
- Thinking flexibly
- Use of lateral puzzles at the beginning of lessons
- Think-a-grams
- Creative thinking activities in projects
- 'The farmers puzzle' Maths300
- Extension: Create your own rhyming puzzle
- Mathercise B12 - Question 1.
Learning Activities
1. Principles of Learning and Teaching (PoLT) (65 min)
Task 1: Defining/Understanding the Principles (10+15)
- Handout 1: Collective brainstorm using the principles given.
- Butchers Paper/Post it notes
- Handout 2: Silent Card Shuffle
- Handout 3: PoLT Survey
- Complete PoLT Component Mapping Survey
- What is component mapping?
- Using the results from this survey rank the 6 principles according to your level of proficiency with 1 being most proficient and 6 the least.
- Group students according to self ranking. Students to discuss strategies they could employ to improve their ability to meet the principle selected.
- Handout 4: PoLT
- In your group select one of the 6 PoLT principles.
- Identify one way in which this principle is easy to implement in mathematics classes.
- Identify one way in which this principle is challenging to implement in mathematics classes.
- NB Try to identify issues specifically related to teaching and learning mathematics.
- Reporting back
- Which principle did you select?
- How is this principle easy to implement in mathematics classes?
- How is this principle challenging to implement in mathematics classes?
2. CAS (Remainder of workshop)
Review- Why CAS?
- functionality
- Useful links
- Exploring CAS
- 'Important buttons'
- Examples
- Getting Started
- Read briefly some of the functions available wit CAS
- Exemplary Activities
- Choose one of these to investigate.
- Handout 5. Part 2E: Volume of a box
Professional reading for next week
