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Biennial Conference 2003

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Workshop Seven

Friday 11th July

9:45 am

Updated on the 24th June

The programme is now final.

 7.01    

Open-ended investigative approaches to Maths learning

Charles Lovitt

This area is one of the big growth areas in maths education - the session will investigate several practical illustrations from classrooms and also address three key areas:

1.  How do teachers find or generate open-ended investigative tasks?

2.  How do we build them into balanced courses?

3.  Will the students learning be improved?

Venue   Senior Common Room      

CL      All     

Repeated        Thurs 4.15 pm 6.01    

7.02   

Lateral thinking

John Edwards

Most students leave school with a very limited conscious repertoire of thinking strategies. For over twenty years I researched what happens when you teach students how to think directly, rather than as a by-product of learning academic disciplines. The research results were powerful and positive, and they have had absolutely no impact on Australian education. In this workshop I will demonstrate some lateral thinking tools and we will try them out on your life.

Venue   School House    

CL      All     

Repeated        Thurs 4.15 pm 6.02    

7.03    

Teaching and Learning about Decimal Notation

Kaye Stacey

This workshop and discussion session will look at some of the common and uncommon ideas that students have about the meaning of decimal numbers, and explaining the origin of some of these ideas.  The advantages and disadvantages of various models and concrete materials will be discussed, along with some sample lessons and short activities.

Venue   Hamilton House  

CL      3 – 5   

Repeated        Thurs 2.45 pm 5.02    

7.04    

Paper Folding: a new angle on geometry

James Burnett (ORIGO Professional Development, Queensland Australia)

This workshop will show new dynamic ways for students to explore the properties of 2D shapes.  The participants will learn to fold polygons in a few easy steps.  They will then discover how to use these to create elaborate tessellations and designs.  The magic star will also be introduced.  A hands-on workshop with all materials provided.

Venue   Day House   

CL      All     

Repeated        Tuesday 4pm 1.03    

7.05    CANCELLED

Getting 9HELL to enjoy you and your teaching

Robin Lane

How do you get 9HELL to enjoy you and your teaching? We’ll look at some new ideas that work!

Venue   34      

CL      5       

For family reasons this workshop has now been cancelled.

7.06    

Practical Activities for Years 9 and 10

Claire Morey (Hamilton Girls’ High School)

This session will explore games and activities to enhance teaching and learning geared towards students who prefer a kinetic (movement-based) learning style.   Activities are based on curriculum needs of Year 9 and 10 students.

Venue   35      

CL      5       

7.07    

Enhancing School Mathematics by Incorporating Workplace Contexts and Practices

Ramaiya Naidu (Ramaiya is a Royal Society of New Zealand Teacher fellow for 2003.

Sir Edmund Hilary Collegiate)

The use mathematics and mathematical principles in the workplace will be explored in this workshop. The nature of those activities that require school mathematics will be considered along with the basic mathematical requirements for new employees. The links between school mathematics and the mathematics commonly used in the workplace will also be discussed.

Venue   36      

CL      All     

7.08    

Content knowledge or pedagogy?  What should be the focus of pre-service teacher courses in Mathematics?

Dianne Scouller (MASTERS Institute, Auckland)

Many students who enrol as pre-service teachers have a very poor grasp of mathematics content.  Skill levels and concept knowledge is limited at best for many students.  What should the pre-service courses focus on in order to alleviate or even remedy this situation?  The experience of a mathematics lecturer in one small institute will be shared and some ideas offered and discussed.

Venue   38      

CL      All     

Download workshop documents here.

7.09    

The Curriculum Project (Mathematics) – An Open Forum

Pauline McNeill (Columba College)

The Curriculum Project (Mathematics) had its first meeting recently.  This is part of the work of the Ministry in its process of reviewing the MiNZC document.  Secondary teachers need to know that the review is taking place, identify issues for the higher levels of the Curriculum and need to get involved in this process.  Take the opportunity to discuss these issues with Pauline and possibility members of the Ministry of Education staff involved in this review.

Venue   37      

CL      5 – 8   

7.10    

A New University Mathematics Course for Year 13 students

Ivan Reilly and Stuart Laird (University of Auckland)

The School of Engineering and the Department of Mathematics of the University of Auckland have combined to offer a joint course in Mathematics for able students in their final year of high school.  It will be offered in Semester 1, 2004, via the internet for students outside of Auckland and there will be optional meetings in Auckland for local students.  This course will be equivalent to the Department of Engineering Science course

Mathematics Modelling 1 and to the Department of Mathematics course Mathematics 3 (Math 151). Successful students will receive credit for this course which can be counted toward a BA, BCom, BE or BSc.  We shall discuss such areas as curriculum, assessment, assumed background of students, registration and costs.        

Venue   40      

CL      8       

7.11    Resources for students on the web   

Gill Klein and David Esterman (The Correspondence School)

If you’re happy to spend low stress time being guided to a smorgasbord of web resources for student use – come to this workshop.  Covers all levels, all strands and includes assessment support stuff.  Great for the classroom or for independent use. You are free to use our site with your students  - or to see how we’ve structured the material and use the ideas to build on for your own Intranet site.

Venue   ICT2    

CL      8       

7.12    

CAST – a program to aid Statistics teaching in Year 13

Gwenda Hill (Gwenda is a Royal Society of New Zealand Teacher fellow for 2003.  She is currently on leave from The Taieri High School )

CAST is an interactive computer aided statistics teaching program written by Doug Stirling for first-year University students in statistics. It is currently available free of charge. This workshop looks at how this program can be used with Excel spreadsheets to teach the Level 3 Achievement Standards in Statistics. It also provides an ideal opportunity for teachers to update their own statistics knowledge. Gwenda is an experienced teacher who has a Royal Society teaching fellowship this year and is working on adapting this program for students and teachers of Year 13 with NCEA Level 3 in mind. Teachers will have the opportunity to try the program and accompanying material.

Venue   ICT1    

CL      8       

Download the Powerpoint Presentation used in this workshop.

See the Powerpoint Presentation here.

7.13    

CensusAtSchool New Zealand

Megan Jowsey (CensusAtSchool Project Coordinator, Department of Statistics, University of Auckland (on leave from Birkenhead College).  Royal Society of New Zealand Teacher fellow.)

CensusAtSchool New Zealand (www.censusatschool.org.nz) provides New Zealand students and teachers with the opportunity to become part of an international project to enhance statistical literacy in the classroom. CensusAtSchool involves school years 5 to 10 and takes place during Maths Week in August this year. The project is being hosted by the University of Auckland in conjunction with Statistics NZ. Find out how your school can join this web based project and your students can be personally involved in collecting and handling data that is relevant to them. View and try teaching resources in data-handling and IT activities that are freely available on the website.       

Venue   Art Suite       

CL      2 – 5   

Repeated        Thursday 10.30  4.18    

 For a copy of their brief info flyer click here.

7.14    

How to Use Mathcad in the Classroom

Mark Brienne (Hoare Research Software)

Hoare Research Software (HRS) has been supplying a range of mathematics based technical software products and support to many professionals such as engineers, scientists and business analysts for more than ten years.  HRS supply a product called Mathcad, used by engineers, scientists and mathematicians, for undertaking a range of calculation tasks and documentation.  This product will be very useful for exposing students to the type of products used by professionals on an everyday basis.  Teachers will also benefit from the use of Mathcad as a teaching aid in demonstrating mathematical theory.  This is your chance to see the many ways in which this product could be used in the classroom.

Venue   Library Suite   

CL      All     

Repeated  Thurs 10.30 am 4.17,  Thurs 4.15 pm 6.16      

7.15

Classroom Activities for Beginners with Graphics Calculators

Derek Smith (Hutt International Boys’ School)

A beginner’s guide to using the CASIO graphical calculator in the classroom.  A range of activities from Year 9 to Year 13 will be viewed and used by participants.

[Note that a workshop with similar content will be taken by Janet Roderick (see 3.06)]

Venue   34      

CL      5 – 8   

Repeated        No      

This workshop has been moved from 2.08 in room 37

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