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Mathtrain.com with Mr. Marcos and his Students, screencasts, math videos, educational tutorials. Why the war over math is distracting and futile. Fifty parents and a handful of teachers have gathered in the library at Bayview Public School in Ottawa to hear Marian Small tell them how to change their children’s math fortunes. Dr. Small is a lively speaker with the firm “eyes on me” tone of a teacher. She lobs math questions at the hesitant audience (some things never change) although she promises not “to call on anyone who doesn’t want me to.” Her talk is also peppered with practised catchphrases: “You can Google answers,” she recites. “You can’t Google thinking.” Flicking through her PowerPoint presentation, she explains, “There was a day when people thought the only way a kid could understand something is when we show it to them.

More than a few parents in the audience are scribbling notes. If you have children between Grade 1 and 8, there’s a fair chance you’ve actually seen a textbook penned by Dr. “If Marian Small was deciding math curriculum in this country,” one math-education researcher gushes, “we’d all be happy.” Build with Chrome. Interpreting the Data: 10 Ways to Teach Math and More Using Infographics.

From stock prices and unemployment rates to trends in tuition and quality of life, the ability to understand and interpret quantitative data is more important than ever in understanding the world. Over the years we’ve written many posts about teaching with Times infographics, including a 2010 series about using them across the curriculum, and a 2011 lesson called “Data Visualized: More on Teaching With Infographics.” If you like, you can scroll through our entire collection of posts that highlight Times interactives and graphics here. Below, we offer a math-focused list of 10 ways students can learn from and tell stories with the numbers in some recent charts, tables and interactives found in The Times. 1. Pick a graph from The Times that plots some quantity over time and use it to tell a story.

For example, the first graph in “The War on Poverty Turns 50″ shows several different poverty rates in the United States over the past 50 years. 2. 3. Browse The Times with a critical eye. 4. 5. Making Math Fun for Kids. Tuesday's program features an interview with Baba Brinkman, who uses rap music to teach kids about science. It's part of our ongoing Learning 2030 series, which has often touched on the challenge of getting today's children excited about school and learning. George Gadanidis is a professor and researcher of mathematics education at Western University. His work has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Knowledge Network of Applied Education Research, the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, the Imperial Oil Foundation, the Maurice Price Foundation, the Inukshuk Foundation, the Canadian Mathematical Society, and Research Western.

Here, he tells us about his work in developing strategies to get children interested in learning mathematics. I caught part of your interview with John Mighton and Annie Kidder on concerns over Ontario students scoring poorly in international math tests. What did you do in math today? Related: HPEFeb3. 8 TED Talks about the wonders of patterns. The swirl behind Arthur Benjamin shows the pattern of Fibonacci numbers. Photo: James Duncan Davidson Arthur Benjamin is perhaps the world’s leading mathemagician and, in today’s talk, he aims to show the creativity, beauty and wonder that is as much a part of math as logic.

Arthur Benjamin: The magic of Fibonacci numbersStepping onto the TEDGlobal 2013 stage, Benjamin takes us on a spirited tour of the Fibonacci numbers, where the patterns to be found go far beyond simply adding two consecutive numbers to get the next. Math is the science of patterns, says Benjamin, and isn’t it incredible that as we note the arithmetical significance of this sequence, that we can also see it in action all around us? “Fibonacci numbers appear in nature surprisingly often,” says Benjamin. Benjamin’s talk reminds us of several other TED classics. And a bonus TEDx talk: Laurie Frick: Seeing the hidden language in art Identifying patterns help humans to find clarity in seemingly useless information. Math - MrToft.ca 2013-14.

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1. Maths Coverage Mangahigh is a comprehensive and powerful maths teaching resource offering full coverage of the UK National Curriculum with more than 400 different challenges ranging from addition to quadratic factorisation 2. Adaptivity Students work best when they work at the edge of their abilities, and Mangahigh tempts students with easy tasks and then builds confidence for harder, more conceptual work 3. Mangahigh is designed for use in a school context and relies on the teacher to direct and control the maths learning experience for students 4. Our industry-leading tools analyse student performance in terms of achievement vs. effort, and also allow you to download these results for use in other packages Mangahigh also offers APP 5.

Mangahigh offers sophisticated problem-solving pedagogy, not rote learning Learners are introduced to new lessons with scaffolding, and then progress towards applied work, supported by specific hints and worked solutions throughout 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 1. 2. 3.