Recently added articles from Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom:
Editorial.(Editorial)
Sep 22, 2009; Beswick, Kim ... Welcome to the third issue of APMC for 2009. Since the last issue I, like some of you, have had the privilege of attending the 22nd biennial conference of the Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers in Fremantle. As always, the conference was a terrific opportunity to catch up with ...
Licorice production and manufacturing: all-sorts of practical applications for statistics: Jane Watson, Jane Skalicky, Noleine Fitzallen and Suzie Wright describe a rich task aimed at helping students from grade 1 to middle school appreciate the source of variation as they generate and examine their own data.
Sep 22, 2009; Watson, Jane ... Among the practical applications of statistics is the collection of data from manufacturing processes. Often collected in the form of a time series, data collected from a series of measurements show the variation in those measurements, such as mass of a product manufactured. Limits are set ...
Cracking the NAPLAN code: numeracy and literacy demands: Thelma Perso examines the literacy demands of NAPLAN test items and provides advice about the explicit teaching of code-breaking and comprehension skills that are essential to numeracy.(National Assessment Program for Literacy and Numeracy)
Sep 22, 2009; Perso, Thelma ... Background In May 2008, the first National Assessment Program for Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) test was administered across Australia to determine the standard of literacy and numeracy achievement of Australia's students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9. Some students did ...
Writing in maths.(HOT IDEAS)
Sep 22, 2009; ... Following is a collection of ideas for incorporating writing in mathematics teaching. Make a dictionary Students write definitions or explanations of mathematical words or symbols in their own words. These can be collated and added to as the year progresses to form a ...
Time for talk: the drawing-telling process: Tracey Smith and Amy Macdonald describe how a combination of drawing and telling can help teachers better to discern and respond to students' developing understandings of clocks.
Sep 22, 2009; Smith, Tracey ... Background When children start school, they bring with them a variety of background skills and informal knowledge that can enrich their learning of new concepts and ideas. A major tenet of many learning theories is that the more children are able to connect a new concept with ...
Scaffolding students' thinking in mathematical investigations: Natalie McCosker and Carmel Diezmann draw some pertinent lessons about effective scaffolding from four episodes in which the teacher's attempts at scaffolding did not have the desired effects.
Sep 22, 2009; McCosker, Natalie ... Introduction Mathematical investigations are loosely-defined, engaging problem-solving tasks that allow students to ask their own questions, explore their own interests and set their own goals (Jaworski, 1994). The value of investigations for students lies in their complexity. ...
