Motivating Maths at GCSE: Getting Away from the Textbook.

Format:

Video

Series:

Academic Video Online

KS3/4 Maths ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teaching Methods.

Local Subjects:

Teaching Methods.

Genre:

Instructional

Physical Description:

1 online resource (15 minutes)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Teachers TV/UK Department of Education, 2006.

Language Note:

In English.

Original language in English.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

Motivating GCSE maths pupils has been identified as a national problem, so a group of Hampshire maths teachers meets up to discuss some new projects they've been trying out in their individual schools. With organisers Alison Clark-Wilson from the Maths Centre at University College Chichester, and Maths Inspector and advisor for Hampshire, Ron Taylor, the group draws up a list of work habits they want to encourage in their students, such as pupils taking ownership of their learning, being motivated and engaged by the activities and developing critical thinking. They also discuss the need, when teaching at KS4, to exploit the more imaginative approaches they use at KS3, particularly avoiding the excessive use of textbooks. The programme then observes a year 10 lesson involving pupils in Fareham collecting their own data and using graphical calculators to create scatter graphs. The class teacher and the rest of the group then analyse its success.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed December 12, 2018).

OCLC:

815783934