Making sense of a collaborative and fun mathematical activity with Notice and Wonder.
#NoticeWonder and Rational Tangles
Thank you for the #lessonfail
A plea to share our failures as well as our successes.
#read2016: Part 3
A few more books I've read in 2016.
Tracy Zager’s new book
Praise for one of the best maths education books around.
Tangling and untangling
A detailed post describing a workshop activity for Conway's Tangles.
How many triangles?
A quick problem-solving prompt to encourage creativity.
#SciPubMath
A recap of my Science in the Pub experience.
#read2016: Part 2
An update of some books I've read in 2016.
Notice and wonder: the Prime Climb hundreds chart
Introducing Prime Climb with Notice and Wonder.
‘Notice and wonder’ and ‘slow maths’: reviving an activity that fizzled
Using Notice and Wonder to revive a paper-folding activity.
Notice and wonder: the world around us
Finding mathematics all around us.
Notice and wonder: sense making
A couple of ways to explore sense making.
Counting in unexpected ways
Exploring two different counting problems with younger children — and a neat way to introduce SET.
Activities for Day One: Fold-and-cut, Quarter the Cross
Purposeful activities for the first day of class to challenge and expand perceptions of mathematics.
Three goals: slow maths, remember the close, different lenses
Three goals for the new semester.
Too quiet
Restarting the blog.
Friday Five: #7
Five posts from the math(s) photo challenge.
Friday Five: #6
The 'Worst Problem Ever', labels, a new book, the value of struggle, and a math(s) photo challenge.
Wrapping up the #MTBoS30 challenge
Recapping the #MTBoS blog challenge.
Friday Five: #5
An abundance of resources, math with bad drawing, and what we say versus what they hear.
Better student talks
Helping students give better talks.
Another party puzzle
Mr and Mrs Smith in one of my favourite party puzzles.
Ramsey’s party problem
Introducing an easy-to-understand game that serves as an entry point to a rich area of mathematics.
Tracy Zager’s word clouds
Two word clouds that remind me of my purpose as a teacher.
Wonder in Mathematics 