Seven advantages:
1. Places the focus of students attention on ideas and sense making.
2.Develops the belief in students that they are capable of doing maths and that math makes sense
3. Provides ongoing assessment data that can be used to make instructional decisions, help learners suceed, and inform parents.
4. Develops mathematical power.
5.Allows an entry point for a wide range of learners.
6. Engages learnrs so that there are fewer disipline problems
7. It's fun
Developing problem solvers
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Teacher develops problem solvers by:
1. Create a maths environment
2. Pose worthwhile Math tasks
3. Use models and calculators
4. Use writing and discourse as thinking tools
5. Encourage cooperative learning groups
6. Require justification of learner responses
7. Listen actively
Problem solving lesson
Before phase
Teacher
Nota:
Activate prior knowledge
Be sure problem is understood
Establish expectations
Student
Nota:
Get ready - connect to personal experiences - understand the problem
During phase
Teacher
Nota:
Lets go
Notice students math thinking
provide appropriate support
Provide worthwhile extensions
Student
Nota:
Works
After phase
Teacher
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Promote math community
listen actively without evaluation
summarise main ideas and iD future problems
Students
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Class discussion
Small groups
Nota:
builds a math community
learners collectively establish new ideas from a collection of existing ideas in the group
encourages class discussion
Understanding
Nota:
Knowing an idea - know about something but cannot really expand on or use it
Understanding an idea - when an idea is connected to existing ideas
Conceptual knowledge - knowledge that consists of logical relationships constructed internally
Procedural knowledge - knowledge of the rules and procedures that one uses in carrying out routine tasks
To learn maths with understanding is the measure of the quantity and quality of connections an idea has with existing ideas.
Constructivism
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Students are not blank slates but creators of own learning
Through reflective thought people modify existing ideas
assimilate
accommodate
Where student are
Nota:
Teaching should begin with the ideas children already have, the ideas they will use to create new ones
Metacognition
Nota:
conscious monitoring and regulation of own thought processes
Assessment
Nota:
a continuous planned process
gathering info about the performance of learners
against Assessment Standards of LO's
Characteristics
Nota:
transparent and focused
integrated into learning and teaching
based on predetermined standards
various methods and contexts
valid, reliable, fair, student-paced and flexible
over a period of time and ongoing
supports growth an development
provides feedback
allows for integrated
strategies that cater for learner needs
allows for summative assessment