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Students seem to do better on topics they have never seen before! Explore? J.P.

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IKIBIDIB  Students do better on brand new topics

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IKIBIDIB  Students do better on brand new topics

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Just a thought: we did MATH6055 there and our feeling is that the students did FAR better on the new material (Sets, Relations, Functions, Graph Theory, Recurrence) than they did on Algebra (which they have been doing for years).

JP - worth investigating

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- What you do to one side you do to the other
- The onion skin method
- opposites... if it multiplies one side....

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- http://www.projectmaths.ie/workshops/workshop5/IntroductionToAlgebra.pdf?strand
- http://www.projectmaths.ie/documents/PDF/FactorisingAlgebraicExpressions.pdf?strand
- http://www.projectmaths.ie/documents/PDF/GroupingUsingArrays.pdf?strand

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http://www.projectmaths.ie/for-teachers/professional-development/lesson-study/
- lecturers work together to design a lesson
- usually a cycle invovles 5 meetings

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Mathcentre http://www.mathcentre.ac.uk/resources/uploaded/mc-bus-formulas1-2009-1.pdf
Lesson
http://www.mathcentre.ac.uk/resources/workbooks/mathcentre/web-formulae2-tom.pdf

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- Use in class poll to get people started...
- Split into groups and ask different groups to work on different questions

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Lunches for staff who attend brainstorming sessions.
How to contact local teachers - invite to CIT or visit schools?
Contact experts in this area - who are they? Who writes school books?
Khan Academy etc. free!

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Study comparing the effect of different teaching techniques

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Study comparing the effect of different teaching techniques

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Based on current knowledge, choose two or three techniques for teaching transposition and measure the impact of each technique.
How to measure impact ?- measure understanding before and after - tests, feedback,
How to find participants
- within modules - interested staff
- outside modules - student volunteers
Control for leaving cert results, discipline etc.
Ideally run study over several years

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Transposition is most likely to be taught in Semester 1
Semester 1 is busy for students and staff
Semester 2 - results are out - identify students that need help with the topic

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How is this currently taught in schools?
Note at the maths spring seminar series secondary school teachers present seemed to indicate this was a big problem
Consult maths teachers in Cork schools

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Can we get help and advice from teaching and learning unit?

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Part 1 - preliminary skills, grouping, factoring,...
Part 2 - equations with one variable. Solve for x
Part 3 equations with multiple variables. Make x the subject of the equation.

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What kind of resource are we hoping to produce?

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What kind of resource are we hoping to produce?

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Online resource
Workshop
Handout
Mixture
Fun outdoor activity??
Flipped classroom type class
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Lesson plan??
Workshop for lecturers

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See what maths learning support resources other learning support centres used for teaching this topic. Quick review of these. Khan academy etc. See what's available already.

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Explore how different staff within maths dep teach this topic, different approaches, advantages, disadvantages, merit in showing students multiple methods

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Relevant to accounting, engineering, science dubjects

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Why the topic is so difficult for students?

What approaches are currently used in the department                                in teaching the topic?

What prior knowledge students have before studying this topic?

What prior knowledge students need before studying this topic?

Where this topic is needed by students?

What do you call this topic? Transposing equations, rearranging equations, solving equations, make the subject of the equation.....

How long do you spend teaching this topic? Hours,weeks

What other topics are affected by skills lacking in this topic?