LSIS STEM Mathematics Network 8 th December 2011 Aims of the day – To share good ideas which have worked well for other maths and numeracy teachers – To provide delegates with resources, techniques and information which will help in their teaching and learning activities.

Functional Maths: using multimedia to get your students wanting to solve problems Video

Functional Maths: using multimedia to get your students wanting to solve problems Do you use multimedia to motivate your learners? Google “dan meyers video blog” for more ideas Make a video, take a photo, build a lesson

From E3 to L2 – dealing with a range of ability Think about 2 recent teaching sessions. – Which of the two would you describe as more successful in meeting the needs of all your learners? Why?

From E3 to L2 – dealing with a range of ability What’s the problem? All classes are mixed- ability.... – Spend two minutes jotting down the particular issues you have (or have had). Write them on post-it notes. – Get together and see if you can put them in categories. (You can add more issues if you think of them)

From E3 to L2 – dealing with a range of ability What’s the solution? – Have you dealt with any of these (successfully)?

From E3 to L2 – dealing with a range of ability What resources are there? – Skills workshop Skills workshop – Bowland Maths Bowland Maths

What have you done differently recently? Over to you!

What have you done differently recently? The Boy problem I have two children. One of them is a boy. What’s the probability I have two boys?

What have you done differently recently? NCETM FE Forum ICT Forum FE Magazine Guidance

Hard to teach topics for AS and A2 Some resources – Improving learning in mathematics In the STEM Centre e-Library Improving learning in mathematics – Geogebra files for calculus atthews/ Geogebra/GeogebraAppletIndexB.htm Geogebra files for calculus