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Understanding Maths anxiety

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Have you ever sat down to take a math test and immediately felt your heart beat faster and your palms start to sweat? This is called math anxiety, and if it happens to you, you're not alone: Researchers think about 20 percent of the population suffers from it. So what's going on? And can it be fixed? Orly Rubinsten explores the current research and suggests ways to increase math performance.

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Why do people get so anxious about math? - Orly Rubinsten

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Have you ever sat down to take a math test and immediately felt your heart beat faster and your palms start to sweat? This is called math anxiety, and if it happens to you, you're not alone: Researchers think about 20 percent of the population suffers from it. So what's going on?

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Some activities and contents related to Maths in where we can find out the applications of the subject and how it is connected to other fields.

https://padlet.com/blancabn87/maths_in_everyday_life

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Motivational quotes on Ormiston Academy walls

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Motivational quotes on Ormiston Academy walls

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'SOLE' experiences: Putting Sugata Mitra into action

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'SOLE' experiences: Putting Sugata Mitra into action

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Maths questions/contents that could be approached with this methodology:

1) Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a door, say No. 1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 3, which has a goat. He then says to you, "Do you want to pick door No. 2?"

Is it to your advantage to switch your choice?

2) Why do honeybees love hexagons and why do we find hexagons in many other places in Nature such as the Giant’s Causeway?

3)  What are the chances that two people share a birthday in a group of 23?

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Additional resources about Geometry and Art:

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Additional resources about Geometry and Art:

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Geometry in Islamic Art

The complex geometry of Islamic design:

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The complex geometry of Islamic design - Eric Broug

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In Islamic culture, geometric design is everywhere: you can find it in mosques, madrasas, palaces, and private homes. And despite the remarkable complexity of these designs, they can be created with just a compass to draw circles and a ruler to make lines within them. Eric Broug covers the basics of geometric Islamic design.

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I don't teach answers

Jeremy Harmer Conference

The name chosen by the speaker for the Conference comes from the following quote of the physicist and mathematician Katherine Johnson   (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8gJqKyIGhE):

"I have never taught answers. I teach you what the problem is, how to attack it. If you attack it properly, you'll get the answer"

In this conference, James Harmer spoke about SOLE (‘Self Organised Learning Environment’) which is refers to the adaptation of a school space to facilitate Enquiry Based Learning.

By using this methodology, the teacher encourages their class to work as a community to answer questions using computers with internet access which led us improve students comunicative skills as well as enable critical thinking and peer-to-peer learning.

Further information about SOLE:

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Speaking at LIFT 2007, Sugata Mitra talks about his Hole in the Wall project. Young kids in this project figured out how to use a PC on their own - and then taught other kids. He asks, what else can children teach themselves?

Sugata Mitra · Education researcher

Educational researcher Sugata Mitra is the winner of the 2013 TED Prize. His wish: Build a School in the Cloud, where children can explore and learn from one another.

Educational researcher Sugata Mitra is the winner of the 2013 TED Prize. His wish: Build a School in the Cloud, where children can explore and learn from one another.

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Transcript of "Kids can teach themselves"

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TED Talk Subtitles and Transcript: Speaking at LIFT 2007, Sugata Mitra talks about his Hole in the Wall project. Young kids in this project figured out how to use a PC on their own -- and then taught other kids. He asks, what else can children teach themselves?

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Mosaic: Pajarita Nazarí, Alhambra