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Technologies for teaching mathematics

See also: teaching-mathematics

Following Dron's definition of technology as stuff that orchestrates various phenomena for a purpose - and includes somewhere in the assemblages of technologies some notion of pedagogy.

Mathematics specific pedagogy#

More specific approaches

See also

Sullivan, P., Clarke, D., & Clarke, B. (2013). Teaching with Tasks for Effective Mathematics Learning. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4681-1

Activities#

teaching activities

"games"

  • How close to 100 - Partners with dice playing a game with a blank 100 grid. Roll, colour in grid, write the number sentence (Boaler, 2015)
  • Use of math cards and find all cards with the same answer - and more tasks from YouCubed
  • crackers

Computer games

Homework

Projects#

Misc. mathematics/teaching projects

Findings and resources from ARC project - Using mathematics to solve real world problems: The role of enablers. Trying to "identify, apply and refine teaching approaches that help secondary students learn how to use mathematics to solve real-world problems". - Skew the script

Project arising from USA-based mathematics teaching "tweaking" maths lessons "to tackle authentic problems with real data and real implications". Now broader project with lesson plans and other resources focused on USA-based curriculum - re(Solve) - Maths by Inquiry

Oz Government funded project including numerous teaching resources including alignment with Oz Curriculum

  • MathHappnes - US(texas)-based project to "bring math into community conversation"

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Misc resources#

Video#

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For teachers#

Learner generated examples#

Teaching tips#