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“Active Maths”
The objective of the session was to get students or the audience out of their seats and working in groups or together.
There were lots of practical ideas for involving movement and sound in teaching. I particularly liked Angle Kung Fu which had various hand and arm movements and sounds to relate to the terminology such as acute angle, obtuse angle etc. I tried this back at base and got lots of “wow, what an idea, but ….yes the younger students will love it”
There were some wonderful ideas to do with travel graphs, which involved students walking around the room, and other students using a travel graph to illustrate the movement which was given on a card. I liked this idea as I could see my adult evening class relating to this as well as my group of sixteen year olds!
The activities ranged across the ability spectrum, and one that we were asked to do in pairs was a card template based on graphical transformations, but not on the same kind of template used by the jigsaw software. This was quite challenging as it expected us to think in flexible ways, but also to discuss the theory and apply it!
Overall this was a very enjoyable session, one in which no-one was left sitting still and listening for too long!! The movement and sound really encouraged everyone to participate in each activity. Well done to Rachael the presenter!