Maths Challenges

How schools support our more able students is of vital interest to us all.

USA National Association for Gifted Chidren

A number of recent studies have shown that U. S. students scoring above the 90th percentile in mathematics and science are among those making the least progress in school. 2009 USA STEM report

David Burghes

Developing a Gifted and Talented Strategy: Lessons from the UK experience

Lesson Study: Enhancing Mathematics Teaching and Learning

inspirational stuff worth a look

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"developing approaches to teaching and learning that do not rely on determinist beliefs about ability."

Des Wilson's 1980's EIGEN publications now held at STEM e-library. Many of us thougth these resources were lost. This booklet No.5 deals with the rectangle.

Worth considering. Very clear steps and layout. Working towards good exam technique.

Does STEM enhance cross-curricular learning within the gifted and talented cohort at KS3?

Resources for Pri & Sec Schools

"Bootstrap is a standards-based curriculum for middle-school students, which teaches them to program their own videogames using purely algebraic and geometric concepts."

"Codecademy is the easiest way to learn how to code. It's interactive, fun, and you can do it with your friends."

"A design-based introduction to computational thinking with Scratch Content Types: Activity, Assessment, Audio and Video, Curriculum, Handout, Lesson Plan Education Level: Preschool and Kindergarten, Elementary School, Middle School, High School, College and University, Professional Development, Other Curricular Areas: Computer Science, Engineering, Language Arts, Mathematics, Music, Science, Social Studies, Teacher Education, Technology, Visual Arts, Other"

"The Teacher of the Future team centrally plans lessons to deliver difficult areas of the curriculum and then works alongside teachers in schools to adapt these lessons to their students' needs. In this film specialist teacher Pali Nahal supports a class teacher in the use of a problem solving lesson plan, explaining how ICT can be used to break down the text of the problem and highlight mathematical language."

"How fast and how far does the train travel, how much food is carried, how many sheets are there, how do the carriages get cleaned, and is that bed really big enough?!"

"This sample of Badger Maths Problem Solving, includes skills and strategies for practical problem solving in Years One to Six. The series supports the NNS objectives, teaching both skills and strategies for problem solving. It also provides plenty of vital practice."

Stick with it amd find the sutainability in the punch lines at the end. Self organisation. I witnessed this in Zambia in the early 1970's, but never realised what was going on!