ATTENTION MATHEMATICS TEACHERS ATTENTION MATHEMATICS TEACHERS
You are invited to attend the 2014 Auckland Mathematical Association
Term Two Saturday Morning Workshops
“Literacy in Mathematics and Statistics”
Registration is online at:
http://www.aucklandmaths.org.nz/upcoming-events/term-2saturday-morning-workshops-2014/
WHEN:
Saturday June 21st 2014
WHERE:
Epsom Girls’ Grammar School
Silver Rd
Epsom, Auckland
TIME:
9.00 am – noon
COST:
$5 Koha
8:30 – 9:00 am
Tea and Coffee – come and catch up with friends or make new ones!
9:00 – 9:30 am
Plenary Speaker: Associate Professor Andy Begg
Auckland University of Technology
Title: “Graphical literacy; homage to Papy”
Literacy in mathematics might be considered to have five forms—verbal, numerical, symbolic, diagrammatic,
and graphical. This talk is about graphical literacy and concentrates on how Papygrams (rather than Cartesian or
statistical graphs) can contribute to the learning of mathematics.
Andy Begg has been a high school maths teacher, a textbook author and a curriculum developer. He has taught
at a number of universities and currently supervises research at Auckland University of Technology.
Here’s a test that is not quite as easy as it looks, but does not require graphs:
Q1.
I had 100g of strawberries, of which 99% is water.
A week later only 98% is water, what will the
approximate weight of the strawberries be?
Q2.
1½ men eat 1½ pies in 1½ minutes.
How long does it take 1 man to eat 4 pies at the same rate?
Q 3.
A car travels at 40 km/h going from A to B; and 20 km/h going
from B to A. What is the average speed?
9:30 – 10:30 am Workshop 1
Title
Description
1A
Presenter
Nicola Ward Petty
“You’re so random! Lexical ambiguity and
the teaching of
probability.”
This workshop is based on a research
paper, looking at how to teach the
language of probability.
1B
Steven Arnold
“Montessori
mathematics: Using
materials to
understand the
abstract world of
mathematics. Helping
re-discover the real
world wonder and the
magical ideas of
mathematics without
hiding behind the
details”
Steven brings a touch of fun, a bit of
irreverence and a wonder at the
world.
Proportional Thinking
with Fractions: Tips to
make fractions come
alive
Teaching for understanding, using
multiple representations, estimating
and building fraction sense will be
exemplified in this workshop.
Auckland University of Technology
Steven is a senior lecturer in Montessori
education at AUT. He works with preservice teachers (ECE, Primary, and
Secondary) to support their personal
understanding of the wonder of
mathematics, while encouraging them to
explore maths from a student centred
perspective. He has a BSc, BA, MEd, Dip
Tchng, and Montessori Diplomas from 3
– 18 years. He established New
Zealand’s first Montessori secondary
school. So he has taught mathematics to
students from 18 months to 80 years.
Steven lives in Auckland with his family,
having also taught in Christchurch and
Wellington (NZ), Brunei (SE Asia),
Brisbane (Australia), Bergamo (Italy) and
England (Europe).
1C
Jeanette Saunders
Cognition
Jeanette Saunders joined Cognition
Education in 2013. An experienced facilitator
and former HOD Mathematics at St
Cuthbert’s College, Jeanette has worked with
teachers through Mathematics Associations,
NZAMT Conferences and for EQUALS.
Committed to promoting learning by
thoughtful teaching, to making mathematics
and statistics accessible to all students and
to working beside teachers, she has been
involved in curriculum, assessment and
resource development throughout her
career. Most recently she has worked on
resources for Level 2 statistical inference and
in 2011-2012 Jeanette and her Year 13
students participated in a University of
Auckland statistics TLRI to trial resources for
teaching bootstrapping inferences and
randomisation tests.
1D
Robyn Headifen
Who is in the driving
seat?
Robyn Headifen is the maths facilitator for
the Secondary Student Achievement
contract
We will look at driving as a metaphor
for learning and practice using literacy
tools that put learners in the driving
seat to build problem solving skills and
improve mathematical literacy for
students
Including…
First Word Last word
Learning Logs
Unpacking a problem….
Resources from the workshop will be
here :
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/tiqfd96a
6aufdar/AADZWr3Gj-UIRl6TovpfBqJ3a
10:30 – 11:00 am Morning tea
11:00 am – noon Workshop 2
Title
Description
2A
Presenter
Lucy Edmonds
Statistical Inference:
Joy or Torture?
2B
Phil Doyle
Reciprocal teaching in
maths
A good benchmark of your students
statistical and literacy ability is their
success in the standards of
statistical inference. The standards
1.10, 2.9 and 3.10 are the polarising
standards which you either love or
hate teaching. In the workshop, we
will look at the content and literacy
progressions from Year 11 to 13
with a specific focus on Years 11 and
12. The workshop will focus on a
variety of literacy methods to get
students to write clear and coherent
reports. The workshop is not about
WHY you should be teaching literacy
in the mathematics classroom but
HOW. Bring your gmail address so
that a variety of resources can be
shared.
A look at Reciprocal Teaching as a
simple way to help students bring
meaning to text in a maths
classroom. We will also touch on
Phil is AP Curriculum/Maths teacher at
De La Salle College
‘talking to the text/graph/table’
highlighted by Literacy Online. We
will also touch on ‘talking to the
text/graph/table’ highlighted by
Literacy Online. We will try activities
that might increase the group effort
between students and students and
between teacher and students.
2C
Jyoti Jhagroo
Auckland University of Technology
Jyoti is an initial teacher education lecturer
has taught in the primary and secondary
context for 25 years. She has a particular
interest in the transitional experiences of
migrant students in the mathematics
classroom.
2D
Omar Dada and Alan delos
Santos
Papatoetoe High School
Language of thought and
communication in the
mathematics classroom?
Cultural Background,
Language Spoken at
Home and Mathematical
Achievement
This workshop examines the language
that migrant students use to think and
communicate in the mathematics
classroom. These understandings are
presented through the voices of ten of
ten immigrant students at a secondary
school in Auckland.
In this workshop/presentation, we will
share our experience in working with
students who come from different
cultural background, and speak English
and/or another language at home, as
they engage in learning in a multicultural environment. We will present a
number of strategies that relates
literacy to mathematical thinking as we
work on raising student achievement in
mathematics. These strategies are part
of our collection of resources that we
have either developed or adapted from
those shared by other mathematics
educators.
Registration is online at:
http://www.aucklandmaths.org.nz/upcoming-events/term-2saturday-morning-workshops-2014/
Please register by 4:00 pm Thursday 19th June
Queries Contact:
Tony Carey ct@manurewa.school.nz