inquiry maths workshop - surrey maths network meeting 08-12-14
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Caitriona Martin@mrsmartinmaths
Aims of the session• Why inquiry maths?• How do I run an inquiry lesson?• Where can you find resources
and information?
Andrew Blair developed inquiry prompts and created the website www.inquirymaths.com. He leads a maths department in Brighton.
Follow Andrew @inquirymaths on twitter.
24 x 21 = 42 x 12
• Problem solving is rarely integral to learning; instead, tended to be an activity that occurred towards the end of topic – did not place students in position of thinking deeply about how to solve the problem (69) or of drawing on their previous knowledge, and grappling with applying it in a new, unusual or complex context. (71)
• In the best schools, topics are introduced by presenting a suitable problem and inviting students to use knowledge in innovative ways. (103)
Why Inquiry Maths?Ofsted: Made to Measure (2012)
Inquiry Maths
KS3 Programme of Study (from September 2014)
inquiry maths
FIG Friday (once per fortnight)
•Functional
• Inquiry
•Groupwork
What’s so different to ‘normal’ classrooms?
Think like a mathematician
Vygotsky
Students learn to regulate their own
thinking when their behaviour is regulated
by collaborators in social activity and when
they regulate the thinking of others.
Inquiry Maths
Regulatory cards
Inquiry Maths
www.oeis.orgNumbers that are congruent to {0,2} mod 6.
How open should the inquiry be?
Setting the level of the prompt
(2,3) (6,12)
ZPD
CURRENT
Currently out of
reach
www.inquirymaths.com
inquiry maths