In Episode 55, is it an A (top mark), B, C or D mark? The ever-present challenges of grading students’ work in maths. Plus, how we inadvertently signify to students to stop thinking, and supporting students to move from additive to multiplicative thinking.
Episode 55
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Episode Guest
- Margarita Breed is a Numeracy Consultant and former secondary school teacher in Victoria, Australia. She works with teachers in Victoria and South Australia.
Quick Guide
- How we inadvertently signify to students to stop thinking in maths
- Tracy Johnston Zager book – Becoming the Math Teacher You Wish You’d Had
- Grading students’ work – A-B levels
- Explaining and making connections
- Reasoned versus thorough interpretations
- Arrays and regions in multiplication
- Using efficient strategies
- Supporting students to move from additive to multiplicative thinking
- Using a range of representations
- Getting beyond closed, routine, repetitive maths questions
- Learning from people interested in number and mathematics
- Applying maths knowledge to unfamiliar situations
- Transferring authority to students over time
- Expectations of students and differentiating
- Grading students’ work – C, D, E levels
- Building students’ persistence
- Developing a culture of mathematics thinking
- Maths and sense-making or meaning-making
- Significant math moments during remote learning
Episode related links
- Margarita Breed on LinkedIn
- Dylan Wiliam’s website
- John Hattie – Visible Learning website
- More Or Less: Behind The Stats podcast
- Slow Reveal Graphs
- Also listen to my chat with Jenna Laib (see below)
- Maths300 Teacher Resources (Subscription website)
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Image Sources
- “16+1 polyhedron models” by fdecomite is licensed under CC BY 2.0
- Pattern photograph: “Math patterns” by keepps is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
