Monday, March 12, 2018

Prague Seminar | 12 March 2018


Using one example, I spoke about five critical learning experiences that students should have for high achievement in mathematics and provided theoretical justifications for these experiences.

In the time that I had I demonstrated expiring, structured discussion and journaling and mentioned that reflection and independent practice are the other important learning experiences.

As I always do, I prefaced my talk with the fact that different teachers may organise their lessons differently but should include these learning experiences on a regular basis. 

I will expand on this topic at a pre-conference session at CEESA Confererence.




Monday, March 5, 2018

Swansea Course | 5.6 March 2018

Baroody's developmental phases in learning multiplication facts


Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Honolulu Course | 29.30 January 2018



We started the course by looking at some international data connected to students' ability in problem solving.


Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Glen Head NY, USA | 25.26 September 2017

Anchor task for a day-one lesson for renaming fractions as decimals for Grade Six.

In day-one lesson, we include prerequisites as well as target skills, so that we are in a better position to plan for subsequent lessons. 

Anticipated methods - (1) know (2) use equivalent fractions (3) rename and divide

(1) I know that half equals five tenths.

(2) 1 half = 5 tenths = 50 hundredths = 500 thousandths

(3) 1 = 10 tenths 
1 share between two = 10 tenths share between two