designing tasks so that all learners can engage with hard maths anne watson toulouse, 2010
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Designing tasks so that all learners can engage with hard
maths
Anne Watson
Toulouse, 2010
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Decimals!
• 10% of 232.3
• 20% of 234.6 or 0.23 !!
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Teaching context
• All learners generalise all the time• It is the teacher’s role to organise
experience• It is the learners’ role to make sense of
experience
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Sorting
2x + 1 3x – 3 2x – 5
x + 1 -x – 5 x – 3
3x + 3 3x – 1 -2x + 1
-x + 2 x + 2 x - 2
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Sorting processes
• Sort into two groups – not necessarily equal in size
• Describe the two groups• Now sort the biggest pile into two groups• Describe these two groups• Make a new example for the smallest
groups• Choose one to get rid of which would
make the sorting task different
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Sorting grids
+ve y-intercept
-ve y-intercept
Goes through origin
+ve gradient
-ve gradient
Zero gradient
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Make your own
• In topics you are currently teaching, what examples could usefully be sorted according to two categories?
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Comparing
• In what ways are these pairs the same, and in what ways are they different?
• 4x + 8 and 4(x + 2)• Rectangles and parallelograms
• Which is bigger?• 5/6 or 7/9• A 4 centimetre square or 4 square centimetres
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Make your own
• Find two very ‘similar’ things in a topic you are currently teaching which can be usefully compared
• Find two very different things which can be usefully compared
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Ordering
• Put these in increasing order:
6√2 4√3 2√8 2√9 9 4√4
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Make your own
• What calculations do your students need to practise? Can you construct examples so that the size of the answers is interesting?
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Arguing about
• Anne says that when a percentage goes down, the actual number goes down
- Is this always, sometimes or never true?
• John says that when you square a number, the result is always bigger than the number you started with
- Is this always, sometimes or never true?
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Make your own
• What assumptions do your students make? What statements could they argue about?
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Characterising
• Which multiples of 3 are also square numbers?
• Which quadratic curves go through (0,0)?
• What cubics have coincident roots?
• What angles have interesting trig ratios?
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Make your own
• By asking non-standard questions about standard topics, can you get students to practise, and fiddle around with ideas, but with a further purpose?
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Construct a ... polygon with
1 2 3 4 5 6
1
2
3
4
5
6
pairs of parallel sides
right
ang
les
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Constructing
• Unexpected objects• Unusual objects• Impossible objects
– Brings students face-to-face with the limitations and possibilities of concepts
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Make your own
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Make your own
• What techniques are you currently teaching? Can you lead your students to understand when they need to give up intuitive methods and adopt more powerful techniques?