I love working with children and am always looking into new ideas and creative ways of teaching. Projects are a great love of mine and I am forever looking into innovative ways of engaging my pupils.

“There is no system in the world or any school in the country that is better than its teachers. Teachers are the lifeblood of the success of schools.” (TED: How to escape education’s death valley)

“Education can be stifling, no question about it. One of the reasons is that education — and American education in particular, because of the standardization — is the opposite of three principles I have outlined: it does not emphasize diversity or individuality; it’s not about awakening the student, it’s about compliance; and it has a very linear view of life, which is simply not the case with life at all.” (Interview with Etsy blog)

“Nobody else can make anybody else learn anything. You cannot make them. Anymore than if you are a gardener you can make flowers grow, you don’t make the flowers grow. You don’t sit there and stick the petals on and put the leaves on and paint it. You don’t so that. The flower grows itself. Your job if you are any good at it is to provide the optimum conditions for it to do that, to allow it to grow itself.” (Keynote Speech to the Music Manifesto State of Play conference)

Existential - connecting to larger understandings

Interpersonal - interaction with others

Intrapersonal - feelings, values and attitudes

Logical - reasoning and problem solving

Rhythmic - sound and patterning

Naturalist - classifications, categories and hierarchies

Linguistic - spoken and written word

Visual - seeing and imagining

 

  Paper and string are cheap and easy to use anywhere, which makes them valuable materials in any class. Students can be encouraged to use their kinesthetic intelligence to play with tangram, create tessellations, make geometrical paper objects, such as platonic solids and carry out simple proofs of their geometrical properties through paper folding or origami, create drawing techniques etc.

According to the National Center for Education Statistics in 2003, geometry was one area of weakness among American students. Origami has been found to strengthen an understanding of geometric concepts, formulas, and labels, making them come alive. Here’s how to use it in your class(PDF). 

Researchers have found that students who use origami in math perform better. In some ways, it is an untapped resource for supplementing math instruction and can be used for geometric construction, determining geometric and algebraic formulas, and increasing manual dexterity along the way. In addition to math, origami is a great way to merge science, technology, engineering, art, and math all together: STEAM.

Thinglink is a tool for creating interactive images by annotating. You can add links to a wide variety of content areas. You can look at this example. 

Tess is a tool for creating interactive lessons by combining online content, media and files. It's reliable and easy to use. You already had the A4 Math examples above. 

Artsteps is a tool for creating virtual exhibitions. You can create a gallery with your students' works. Here is an example.

Sliceform Studio is a free tool for creating Mathematical art. You can create your own tiling design online, customize it, download it and assembly it in reality. There are tutorials and a gallery for inspiration. 

ally) receptive is one of the most important aspects of mathematics instruction. 

This motivational technique involves making students aware of a void in their knowledge and capitalizes on their desire to learn more. 

The event is focused on a few ways to enhance the degree of students’ involvement in Math classes by using practical, hands-on activities, as well as on specific examples of activities and tools than can be used to achieve this goal

·         Introduction (November 29th)

·         Argument.  Hands-On Teaching and Learning (November 30th-December 1st)

·         Module 1- Outdoors activities (December 2nd-3rd)

·         Module 2- Activities using paper or string (December 4th-5th)

·         Module 3 - Activities involving movement or construction  (December 6th-7th)

·         More ideas, conclusions and wrap-up (December 8th-9th)