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Developing Interactive White Board Resources: Developing
Teachers
Frank Eade, Centre leader. F.eade@mmu.ac.ukSaul Moss, s.a.moss@mmu.ac.uk
Centre for Mathematics Education
Features of a good mathematics lesson
• Realistic Mathematics Education (RME)
‘Realistic’ means that the context ofthe problem is imaginable for thepupils and they can experience it as real to them
• Pupil interaction and discussion
When children have to share ideas – To explain, discuss and sometimes justify the opinions they hold- thistends to lead to a better, more Generalisable and`‘principled’ understanding
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Helping to create and sustain Mathematical models
From his birth, Jordan was measured on a regular basis. On the right you see his two growth graphs, one for length and one for weight.13a. How old is Jordan now? What is his length now? And his weight? b. How often was Jordan measured? c. What do you think the dark shaded areas mean?
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Bringing common classroom text book questions to life
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Mrs. West travels home from a visit to Birmingham.
This is the graph of her journey.
Distance to home (km)
time
Suggested questions to accompany graph.
a. Where do you think Mrs West might live?b. Do you think Mrs West travelled with the same type of transport all
the way? Explain.c. Mrs West phoned home when she still had 100 km to travel. About
what time did she phone?d. You could make a graph of her trip that is increasing instead of
decreasing. What do you need to change on the axes?
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