Term 4 update from AMA Networks of Expertise: Click here
NZ Education Reports & quick reads
** NZCER recently released a report looking at the impact of changing the timetable. it is titled It’s time: Transformational timetabling practices and highlights the ways five diverse secondary schools shaped their timetables to support innovation in teaching and learning.
If your school is looking at doing things differently this might make useful reading
** Issue Number 2, 2021 of the NZCER SET journal highlights the new drawing and labelling features that have been added to online assessment bank resource items.
** The big read this term has been the Royal Society report on improving the learning and teaching of mathematics and statistics in Aotearoa New Zealand. They make 14 recommendations
** From the University of Auckland: Issue 5 of Prismatic (Practice and Research in Statistics and Mathematics) an online journal of research and practice in mathematics and statistics education
** From American Statistics association: a free downloadable e-book for teachers and in the Fall edition of their online journal is an article co-authored by Dr Pip Arnold highlighting the use of photographs as a source of data for statistical investigation
** From NCETM: a guide on teaching maths at Key Stage 3(UK). It includes the knowledge and understanding most important for the first three years of secondary school, broken down into a coherent sequence. Download the guide from this link
Two sources of online activities
Mathigon: much more than on online textbook It can help students discover play and find the joy in mathematics Check out their teachers page for a lesson plans, and videos showing you how to use the activities and the interactive polypad. This might be useful while our juniors are still working online
Open Middle problems from Robert Kaplinsky have the same start and finish point but multiple pathways in between. many of these problems are now available as google slides ready for online use.
Robert also wrote an interesting blog post that explains 3 ways you can uncover students misconceptions, even when they don’t realize that they have any? Another addition to this blog could be the use of always sometimes never problems. Here is a selection of statements to get you started.
He has also written a number of problem based lessons which you could springboard your lessons from. Find them listed here
