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Subject Knowledge and Initial Teacher Education – The World Is Maths

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The World Is Maths. Subject Knowledge and Initial Teacher Education. In 2015 the Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education (ACME) released their report. Beginning Teaching: best in class? High-quality initial teacher education for all teachers of mathematics in England. The ACME report arrived on the back of the. Carter review of initial teacher training. Commissioned by the DfE, which made, amongst others, the following findings:. To answer that question you need to be aware of the two types of knowle...

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When is “Doing” Enough? – For the Love of Maths

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A Bit About Me. First Day Function Match-Up. For the Love of Maths. Instructing and reflecting about mathematics. When is “Doing” Enough? October 13, 2016. October 13, 2016. My Experiment and Hypothesis. And came up with a few introductory rules (such as when we are allowed to use the substitution rule). After this, we worked on more of the algebraic rules: factoring, conjugation, vertical and horizontal asymptotes. Borrowed a few of their questions, and created a Desmos lab. Student A: Depending on the ...

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Ignore These Messages, Dept. | traditional math

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An effective strategy that teachers feel guilty using. Ignore These Messages, Dept. January 3, 2017. January 3, 2017. One of the many popular tropes of the internet is referring to someone who offers criticism of a piece as a “troll”. Not that there aren’t bellicose and baiting-type comments, but the word is often applied to any type of criticism as in : “If you don’t agree with this, you’re a troll.”. They won’t mind. Troll No. 1:. Troll No. 2. Like, professionally and/or personally? 8217; [After short-...

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Nothing New Under the Sun, Dept. | traditional math

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An effective strategy that teachers feel guilty using. Nothing New Under the Sun, Dept. January 7, 2017. Bar modeling, the technique of solving math problems using a strip or bar, has become synonymous with Singapore Math. The math program in Singapore uses such technique to solve a large variety of math problems. But the technique has been around for many years as evidenced by this arithmetic textbook that I recently found, published in 1919. (Hamilton’s Essentials of Arithmetic). Enter your comment here.

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Not This Again, Dept. | traditional math

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An effective strategy that teachers feel guilty using. Not This Again, Dept. January 2, 2017. January 4, 2017. In a recent article in Huffington Post,. Keith Devlin (a mathematician from Stanford who writes about math education) says that math as it was taught in the past focused largely on computational skills. But it should be about “number sense” since computations can largely be done by computers, calculators, “the cloud”, etc, these days. The approaches to math teaching in the lower grades in school...

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Having it Both Ways, Dept | traditional math

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An effective strategy that teachers feel guilty using. Having it Both Ways, Dept. December 11, 2016. December 11, 2016. Education Week, which bills itself as the newspaper of record on education, decided to visit the news. About the latest results from the most recent PISA exam, and starts off grabbing the bull by the horns:. Do the newly released results from the 2015 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) throw cold water on project-based learning? There must be some explanation! And bei...

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Trying to be Charitable, Dept. | traditional math

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An effective strategy that teachers feel guilty using. Trying to be Charitable, Dept. December 25, 2016. December 26, 2016. I came across this article. From over a year ago which appeared in the N.Y. Times about how we are not teaching students to solve math problems the right way. In it, the author features a quote from an email she received from Tracy Zager, an author of math ed books:. The email quoted at the beginning of the article states:. Which takes a traditional approach to teaching:. And someti...

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When is “Doing” Enough? – For the Love of Maths

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A Bit About Me. First Day Function Match-Up. For the Love of Maths. Instructing and reflecting about mathematics. When is “Doing” Enough? October 13, 2016. October 13, 2016. My Experiment and Hypothesis. And came up with a few introductory rules (such as when we are allowed to use the substitution rule). After this, we worked on more of the algebraic rules: factoring, conjugation, vertical and horizontal asymptotes. Borrowed a few of their questions, and created a Desmos lab. Student A: Depending on the ...