"Mastery - an approach to teaching maths commonly used in East Asian countries - can significantly benefit children in UK schools, a University of Exeter academic has found.
The independent research, conducted by the Oxford University Department of Education, is the first academic study to show this teaching method, now supported by the UK Government, can be effective."
"Bright Spark Education is using Indian teachers trained in the UK curriculum to help British students aged 7 to 16" via Skype; "not looked upon favorably by at least one UK teacher"
Loads of great teaching resources from the UK. Many have downloadable media such as interactive flash files, spreadsheets, word docs, powerpoint, iwb files (in various formats), and more.
David Tall, emeritus professor from Warwick in the UK, published this book in 2013, and this links to his summary and a sample chapter. His papers and other math resources are on his website: http://homepages.warwick.ac.uk/staff/David.Tall/index.html
Emaths is an interactive site, allowing teachers of mathematics to share ideas and resrouces.
Teachers should check this out - look under 4Teachers link for lessons and interactives. The site contains a huge amount of free resrouces for any teacher of mathematics. Emaths was established in 2004 as a way of sharing materials. It has always been entirely free to use, and always will be.
LOG IN February 22, 2012 at 2pm Eastern US time: http://tinyurl.com/math20event
During the event, John Mason will lead a conversation about multiplication as scaling, and answer questions about his books, projects and communities.
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The recording will be at: http://mathfuture.wikispaces.com/JohnMason
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Event challenge!
What good multiplication tasks about scaling do you know?
Share links and thoughts!
John writes about elastic multiplication: "It is often said that 'multiplication is repeated addition' when what is meant is that 'repeated addition is an instance of multiplication'. I have been developing some tasks which present 'scaling as multiplication' based around familiarity with elastic bands. Participants would benefit from having an elastic (rubber) band to hand which they have cut so as to make a strip; wider is better than thinner if you have a choice."
About John Mason
John Mason has been teaching mathematics ever since he was asked to tutor a fellow student when he was fifteen. In college he was at first unofficial tutor, then later an official tutor for mathematics students in the years behind him, while tutoring school students as well. After a BSc at Trinity College, Toronto in Mathematics, and an MSc at Massey College, Toronto, he went to Madison Wisconsin where he encountered Polya's film 'Let Us Teach Guessing', and completed a PhD in Combinatorial Geometry. The film released a style of teaching he had experienced at high school from his mathematics teacher Geoff Steel, and his teaching changed overnight.
His first appointment was at the Open University, which involved among other things the design and implementation of the first mathematics summer school (5000 students over 11 weeks on three sites in parallel). He called upon his experience of being taught, to institute active-problem-solving sessions, w
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"A major study into maths attainment has found that boys and girls perform equally in the subject, dispelling long-held myths around gender and education.
The first UK-wide research of its kind for 13 years was carried out by Keith Topping, Professor of Educational and Social Research at the University of Dundee, and education assessment company Renaissance found differences in maths attainment between girls and boys to be almost negligible. The study also found that regular and high-quality maths practice improves outcomes across the board and that primary pupils outperformed secondary students, with better attainment scores."