Developing Interactive White Board Resources: Developing

Teachers

Frank Eade, Centre leader. F.eade@mmu.ac.ukSaul Moss, s.a.moss@mmu.ac.uk

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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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