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Ramps

If I could nominate my favourite teaching tool-that-is-not-a-tool of late, it would be ramps. As of this week (written in Week 5, Term 4 2021) I have planned and executed lessons around ramps for Stage 4 Ratios and Rates, Stage 5 Trigonometry and Stage 5 Linear Relationships. Although the premise is very similar for eachContinue reading “Ramps”

Recapping the 2021 MANSW K-8 Conference – Part 2

Hello and welcome to another edition of Belated Blog Posts. Here is Part 2 of my MANSW Conference recap. Part 1 can be found here, and it was written while things were still fresh. The rest of this post is possibly quite stale. Session 3 The third session I attended was ‘The problem with wordContinue reading “Recapping the 2021 MANSW K-8 Conference – Part 2”

Recapping the 2021 MANSW K-8 Conference – Part 1

Foreword: Curse my “living in the moment” attitude and my lack of pictures from the day! It’s going to be hard to illustrate everything without photo evidence, but I will do my best. And now I know for next time that a picture can save me up to a thousand words of description. Introduction IContinue reading “Recapping the 2021 MANSW K-8 Conference – Part 1”

Blog direction

I started this blog at the beginning of 2020 for multiple reasons: I wanted to bring together all sorts of resources and materials I had been engaging with in mathematics education I enjoy discussing maths education but needed some written outlet so none of it would get lost I wanted to chart my own developmentContinue reading “Blog direction”

Teaching Pythagoras’ Theorem to a Year 8 Balinese class (Part 1)

Halo! This pre-service teacher is completing her first professional experience in a rural fishing village in northern Bali as part of a university program. The school we are working with is a local junior high school, and we have been assigned year 7 and year 8 English (Bahasa Inggris), mathematics (matematika) and sustainability classes. SinceContinue reading “Teaching Pythagoras’ Theorem to a Year 8 Balinese class (Part 1)”