[Maths-Education] Video Proejct for CPD and ITE
Ingram, Jennifer
Jenni.Ingram at warwick.ac.uk
Thu Jan 10 15:35:36 GMT 2008
A really big thank you for all those who have responded so far!
I am sending out the email again so that anyone else who wants to can respond before we begin analysing the responses.
Thanks again
We are producing a DVD of common classroom scenarios which can often be challenging for new teachers to respond to. The aim is to gather a variety of different ways of responding to such situations. We intend to use these different ways of responding in a DVD to help both maths teachers and trainee teachers to explore the pros and cons of different responses and then consider how they may respond to a wider range of issues in the future.
Please will you take the time to look through the 11 scenarios on the next page, and pick 2 or 3 (or more) to respond to. Describe how you would respond. Alternatively, you might choose to describe responses you have seen in classrooms but would not necessarily use yourself.
Please indicate whether you are a maths teacher in school, a maths education teacher or a PGCE student.
How would you respond to these questions / scenarios?
1) When am I ever going to use simultaneous linear equations?
2) Multiplying makes things bigger
3) You hardly ever get a six!
4) Why does a minus times a minus make a plus?
5) 4.32 is bigger than 4.5.
6) maths is boring...
7) Why is 100=1?
8) (x + y)2 = x2 + y2
9) 1/3 + ¼ = 2/7
10) can't you just tell us the rule?
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Jenni Ingram
Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education
Institute of Education
University of Warwick
Coventry
CV4 7AL
Tel: 024 76522852
Email: Jenni.Ingram at warwick.ac.uk
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