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11/17/2016 Collaboration in your Maths classroom

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11/17/2016 Collaboration in your Maths classroom

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When I watch videos like that of the elementary school in Alaska, I'd like to work in a different country. I have a classroom in which I can not even place the desks in order to facilitate the collaborative learning. My reflection is that also environment is important when we have to organise social activities. I think collaborative works are very useful. I'd like to organise more, but I feel discourged because we lack "vital" space and good means to do a real interesting and significant work.

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Digital technologies in your Maths classroom

Unfortunately the link to the teachmeet didn't work!

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Creativity in Maths classroom.

My learning design here.

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Looking for geometrical forms!

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Bringing real word into the Maths classroom.

Pupils are cutting out food images from advertising sheets in order to find the best combination between buying everything is in the shopping list and spending not more than 10,00€. Moreover, they have to draw a receipt to show how much they spent and what they bought.
That is a cooperative way to apply the mathemathical thinking and problem solving stategy to a possible real situation, showing the use of the sum, multiplication and substraction. If possible, next step will be bringing pupils doing shopping with a similar task as that of the cooperative learning work.

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Taking part to the tweet discussion.

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Personalizing learning

I noticed that my young pupils were not used to learn by doing and to reflect on the process they were carrying on (I teach in a primary school for the first time this year). They were still passive when I joined the class.
So what I tryed and try every day to do, in order to personalize and make the learning process more significant, is building for them or telling them some real or realistic situation, then they have to identify with and think and find possile solutions to the problems doing cooperative works.
We don't have an interactive whiteboard in our classroom, so, other times I must find "old" and collaborative games or arithmetical challenges to play Maths all together and, like all children of the world, they become very competitive and engaged. This is the way I go along to enable the involvement of the weaker and less extroverted pupils.

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I found Dan Finkel's video very inspiring.
Indeed, I try every day to encourage the mathematical thinking, but I need to make more! First of all: I won't any more have memorisation expectation!

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6 years old children and the summ.

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I teach Maths to children aged between 6 and 8. I'm sure that all of them like learning Maths by playing games or solving problems related to their daily life. That's why, when my lessons become to much abstract they get bored.
When at the beginning of the year, I asked them which colour, or taste had Maths for them, the most gave "colourful and tasty" answers. So I think  that none of them really hate Maths, they only dislike our way to teach it. I think that, growing up, they feel frustated not by Maths but by the lack of sense of learning it, because they don't see any connection to their life and their real needs.

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This is me, a teacher always looking for anything that can motivate and let her little pupils fall in love with learning.
Starting from last month, I teach maths, science and English to 8 years old pupils in my birthtown, San Giovanni Rotondo, South Italy.
Out of school, I like travelling and backing sweets!
I attend this course because I need suggestions and new ideas to build more interesting and cooperative lessons.
Ready to start!