I spent quite a bit of time digesting and pondering over T1 this week. Was one of my favourite Mr Barton Maths podcast episodes, and this time in video form too! It was wonderful to see Bernie Westacott demonstrate how he teaches everything from number sense to, positive and negative numbers, to simultaneous equations to young children through the use of manipulatives. Fantastic videos! There's also some compelling visuals produced by @BerkelyEverett that dovetail well.

Harry Fletcher-Wood produces again for T2 with a great piece on considering timing within schools.

I found it helpful to hear about Wait time 1 and Wait time 2 via T3. Feeling going about the former, need to work more on the latter!

T4 is a section of Dan Willingham's ‘When Can You Trust the Experts' that could be used as a great classroom activity.

T5 is a great podcast.

T6 is a website I've been meaning to check out for ages, turns out Mr Barton's ‘Variation Theory' is a very handy resource.

T7 and T8 you can check out at your leisure.

No thought shrapnel this week as I started writing some, but then it got big enough to be turned into a full blog post! The post is on my attempts at trying to increase the homework completion rate amongst my students through the use of ‘implementation intentions' and ‘action triggers'. You can read it here.

Enjoy : )

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Visual representations of mathematics with @berniewestacott, @BerkelyEverett, and @mrbartonmaths

The psychology of when: Secrets of timing in schools, via @HFletcherWood

Wait time 1, vs, wait time 2. What's the difference? Via @RonRitchhart

An activity to promote discussion about statistics and biases, via @DTWillingham

Original tweet.
Good question to generate discussion about both probability, and cognitive biases, in your maths class. From @DTWillingham‘s ‘When Can You Trust the Experts'. Could give each Q to half of the class (without letting them know that I'd done so), let them fight it out, then discuss.
Here's what the study found… Would be interesting to compare to your class' views. The study was: Tversky, A., & Kahneman, D. (1981). The framing of decisions and the psychology of choice. Science, 211, 453–458
And a bit more, helping us to make sense of the findings : )

Podcast: Mobile Devices in Schools, via @TERPodcast

For Maths Teachers: Variation Theory, excellent website for review Qs, via @mrbartonmaths

FAST: Families and Schools Together, a program, via @EducEndowFoundn

Just for fun: Two Eritrean children enjoying their first ever snowfall in Canada, via @RebsD

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