[Maths-Education] ATM all attainment tachin gand learning group

[Corinne Angier]

The Association of Teachers of Mathematics
All-attainment learning and teaching group

Our next meeting is on

Saturday January 21st  2006
09.30 until 15.00

We will be considering how we can use data handling tasks to 
engage students in thinking about the world around them. 

Please see below for travel details etc.

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All teachers, whatever the structures adopted by their 
mathematics department, work with students with very diverse 
learning needs.  This group is interested in the kinds of 
mathematical tasks which are accessible, open and rich 
enough to meet the needs of learners across the attainment 
spectrum.  

We work on mathematics together and discuss the 
opportunities and tensions that exist in school classrooms.  
The workshops focus on sharing practice.  Some of us bring 
stories from the classroom of using the activities that we 
have previously explored together.  We all aim to bring with 
us a mathematical task which we have used with a range of 
learners.  We consider how to work with a mathematical task 
in the classroom, how to develop it and the sort of 
questions we need to ask to extend students’ mathematical 
thinking.

This workshop is free and lunch will be provided.  The next 
meeting is at the Mathematics Education Centre, Sheffield 
Hallam University, Collegiate Crescent Campus, 25 Broomgrove 
Road, Sheffield, S10 5BW.  Travel details can be found in 
the Visitors' Guide at http://www.shu.ac.uk.

If you are interested in attending this workshop please 
contact Corinne Angier (cangier at chaucer.sheffield.sch.uk ) 
or Hilary Povey (0114 225 2338; h.povey at shu.ac.uk). 
Corinne Angier
Curriculum leader for mathematics
Chaucer school
Wordsworth Avenue
Sheffield S5 8NH
Tel: 0114 2322338 
Fax: 0114 2321426
cangier at chaucer.sheffield.sch.uk

"Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards." 
Soren Kierkegaard