Peter Liljedahl Archives - Pushing The Edge https://pushingtheedge.org/tags/peter-liljedahl/ Pushing The Edge for Critical Thinking in Education Fri, 20 Dec 2024 23:40:27 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://pushingtheedge.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/cropped-PTE-512x512-32x32.png Peter Liljedahl Archives - Pushing The Edge https://pushingtheedge.org/tags/peter-liljedahl/ 32 32 Building Maths Stamina https://pushingtheedge.org/building-maths-stamina/ Tue, 21 Feb 2023 04:58:00 +0000 https://pushingtheedge.org/?p=13639 Nearing the end of the school year, assessments are done, reports are done. It’s a time when you can capitalise on all that you have built with your students in your journey together.  This year something stood out to me about my students.  Students with different skill levels were persisting with quite challenging maths tasks. Even when their answers were wrong they would cheerfully head back to their group determined to solve the task, or at least get much closer to the answer.  I had underestimated them, thinking that after a few mistakes many would be furious and start doubting

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]]> Explaining and Showing our Thinking in Maths https://pushingtheedge.org/explaining-and-showing-our-thinking-in-maths/ Thu, 17 Dec 2020 02:43:00 +0000 https://pushingtheedge.org/?p=12521 I want my students to think deeply, to identify patterns, to make connections and explore relationships, and to make their thinking visible – explaining and justifying as they do so. With this in mind, over the past twelve months I’ve endeavoured to build a culture of thinking, most noticeably in number sense in mathematics in my senior primary classroom. The learning journey has been challenging yet thoroughly invigorating. Regular check ins with Margarita Breed, who I chatted with on my Pushing The Edge podcast (see PushingTheEdge.org/53), reading and listening to Pam Harris, and devouring Peter Liljedahl’s, Building Thinking Classrooms in

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