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Learning how to think abstractly is a useful ability in all aspects of life.

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- Clear aims
- Encourage children indipendence
- Do projects
-  motivation, creativity, imagination,

CONNECTION ON A OPPOSITE DOMAIN (LITERATURE, ARTS, POETRY, GASTRONOMY...)
= learning is more EFFECTIVE, ACTIVE. (Videos, writing poems, dramatizing.

- re-leaving important moments in the History of Maths, getting aware it is the work of a real people.

- stop waiting for ready-made knowledge

- Assign projects that help kids see math’s usefulness.

- Sharing stories from the news where math understanding is featured in the narrative

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- Maths in wonderl@and. an eTwinnig project.

- AudioM@ths

- Dressing Mr. Cube

- "Bubbl.us" per creare mappe concettuali

- Learner.org

- instituteofplay.org

- edutopia.org

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5 principles of extraordinary Math teaching

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5 principles of extraordinary Math teaching

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Maths miss education.

Maths class is a repetition and memorization of technical facts.

We are not comfortable with Maths.
We don't question the authority of numbers.

Maths permits a THINKING THINK.
What is it?
It is a think that doubts, understands, conceives, imagines, perceives.
This is the kind of thinking that we need in M. class every day.

1. START WITH A QUESTION
(not with answers, because with this you memorize steps and not the process.
There's no place to imagine, doubt, refuse.)

2. STUDENTS NEED TIME TO STRUGGLE
(the longer we spent, the more the class came alive with thinking.
Develop curiosity, motivation, the ability to take a risk.

3. YOU ARE NOT THE ANSWER KEY
("I don't know, let's find out!"
M. become an ADVENTURE.
If you are not the a. key, you create space for the conversation and debate.)

4. SAY YES TO STUDENTS' IDEAS
(Saying yes is not the same to say "you're right".  You can accept even wrong ideas into the debate.
To have your idea dismissed, out of head is disempowering.)

5. PLAY!
(M. is not about following rules, is about playing, exploring, finding. Einstein called play the hiest form of research.)

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- Lack of initiative
- Lack of perseverance
- Lack of retention
- Aversion to word problems
- Eagernes for formula

Impatience with irresolution.

Essential: formulation of a probelm.
Involve children in the formulation of the problem.

- Use multimedia, images, videos
- Encourage student intuition
- Ask the shortest question you can (specific)
- Let students build the problem
- Be less helpful

WE NEED MORE PATIENCE PROBLEM SOLVER.

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I'm teaching maths, science, technology, history, geography, and music in a little school in Sanfrè, a little town the north west of Italy.