Dr Edward de Bono's six thinking hats and numeracy: Anne Paterson applies the popular teaching approach of "thinking hats" to mathematics education. From: Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom | Date: September 22, 2006| Author: Paterson, Anne | COPYRIGHT 2006 The Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

In education, the term "metacognition" describes thinking about thinking. Within mathematics, the term "metacomputation" describes thinking about computational methods and tools (Shumway, 1994). This article shows how the Six Thinking Hats can be used to demonstrate metacognition and metacomputation in the primary classroom. Following are suggested teaching and learning sequences for developing these concepts, using Dr de Bono's hats as graphic organisers.

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