Whole and Rational

There were two focuses for day four – Maths Content and How to Teach it.

Manaiakalani Kaupapa and Shared Pedagogy – Presenter Dorothy Burt

Dorothy emphasized the following –

R- Recognizing Effective practice, she used Manaiakalani’s Pillars of Practise

• NZ Curriculum
• Local curriculum and how we as a school community interpret the curriculum.
• Ministry of Education
• Informed by research both internationally and Manaikalani.

A – Amplify our practice by using and harnessing our digital technologies.

The ability to access and use digital technologies has transformed the way we learn and offers new opportunities and experiences.

T – Turbocharge – effective practice using worksheets, Maths Wizz, Mathematics, and Math Fact Lab.

Remember it is important to track student’s progress – TRACKING IS KEY!  

The digital technologies need to be aligned to the learning needs of your learners NOT a fill-in.

It’s always a valuable learning opportunity to listen to Dorothy about Manaiakalani’s kaupapa and pedagogy.

Maths Talk Number – Presenter Donna Yates

I learned the importance of establishing ground rules to ensure all learners are included in a safe learning environment and are supported to share their maths knowledge using high-quality talk.

Donna discussed the importance of establishing and revisiting the group rules for talking.  Assigning specific roles to support and encourage participation with all learners is advantageous.

Donna shared that talk is critical with the focus on increasing high-quality talk. Talk Moves is an excellent approach to ensure all learners actively participate and talk.

I learned the value of using Choral counting to deepen the learners’ knowledge and understanding of the metric number system. This warm-up activity allows the students to see patterns, place value, and develop mathematical thinking.  I will be sharing this warm-up activity with my colleagues and implementing this warm-up with my mathematics groups.

Donna shared Choral counting, a wonderful warm-up activity where the teacher leads the children to count aloud together by a given or identified number.  The children are instructed/encouraged to see and discuss patterns and to critically think about the numbers thus deepening their understanding of the number.

Understanding Place Value – Presenter Elena Terekhina

Since Elena’s presentation, I now have a maths vocabulary sheet for every child to glue into their maths book. I previously had one in the group modelling book that they could access but having one in their books is easier for the student to use and refer back to. Elena emphasized the importance of reading and knowing the curriculum expectations of the learners by the end of year 6. Primary educators need to know what the students are expected to know by the time they leave primary school.

Manaiakalani is fantastic at sharing digital resources for both teachers and students.  I’m always keen to share these with my colleagues.

Fractions as Operators – Presenter Georgie Hamilton

Georgie shared the importance of displaying and giving follow-up learning activities with vocabulary, giving thestudents a copy or leaving the picture empty.

Sharing and having access to a wide range of interactive websites that the students use to deepen their knowledge of fractions is a valuable digital resource that I will be sharing with my students.  It was interesting and valuable learning for myself with the specific maths vocabulary to use and the misconceptions and what I should not say for example – 2 out of 3 multiplied by 24. I am not to say, “OUT OF.”

I also learned that it is important when teaching to give multiple examples/representations, researchers suggest using continuous models with a variety of quality materials.