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Assessment : thinking, learning and assessment in mathematics |
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B Keogh, J Dabell and S Naylor (2010)
Millgate House Publishers
£45.00
This book+CD explores the connection between thinking, learning and assessment in maths. Using a highly creative approach it explains in detail how assessment, thinking and learning can be integrated in maths lessons. More than 30 different assessment techniques are described, with each one illustrated (in A4 photocopiable format). Concise teachers’ notes for each technique explain:
- what the approach is
- how it can be used for assessment
- how can be managed in the classroom
- how it helps with learning
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Highly interactive versions of the activities are provided on the accompanying CD.
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Cartoons in Mathematics Education (book) |
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Written at Millgate House Education by John Dabell, Brenda Keogh & Stuart Naylor
£40.00
Ten years after exploring Concept Cartoons in mathematics for the first time, the new member of the Concept Cartoon family has arrived. The first venture into Concept Cartoons in mathematics was in 1998 with Janet Mock. Janet has used them since then in her work as a lecturer at Western Washington University, USA. The following year we worked with colleagues at Manchester Metropolitan University to help create Concept Cartoons for Maths on the Metro. This was a project similar to Science on the Underground, with mathematical Concept Cartoon posters appearing on the metro trains in Greater Manchester during the Year of Maths 2000. |
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More recently we have worked with John Dabell to create the wide-ranging set that is now available as Concept Cartoons in Mathematics Education. John joined the Millgate House Education team to contribute his ideas and enthusiasm and take a lead role in writing. Other contributors to the publication include Costel Harnasz, Gordon Stainsby, Melvyn Cole, and groups of teachers and advisers in Edinburgh and North Yorkshire, led by Peter Gorrie and John Crosland.
Concept Cartoons promote more effective teaching, learning and assessment in mathematics. They use cartoon-style drawings in which different characters offer their views.
Teachers find that they are highly motivating for pupils, that they provide opportunities for discussion and argument and that they are easy to use in the classroom as a part of normal teaching.
The book has 130 black and white A4 photocopiable Concept Cartoons covering the main areas of maths. Each Concept Cartoon comes with background text to explain the maths behind the different alternatives and to suggest possible follow up activities.
Each Concept Cartoon has a blank speech bubble to encourage learners to add additional ideas to the discussion.
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Cartoons in Mathematics Education (CD) |
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Written at Millgate House Education by John Dabell, Brenda Keogh & Stuart Naylor
Single user license : £ 45.00 plus £7.88 VAT
Site license primary : £ 85.00 + £14.88 VAT
Site license middle/secondary : £ 125.00 + £21.88 VAT
Site license university : £ 165.00 + £28.88 VAT
The CD has 130 full colour Concept Cartoons covering the main areas of maths. Each concept cartoon comes with background text to explain the maths behind the different alternatives and to suggest possible follow up activities. The CD has partial animation and full interactivity. The level of demand of many of the Concept Cartoons can be adjusted by changing the central information and/or the text in the speech bubbles
Each Concept Cartoon has a blank speech bubble to encourage learners to add additional ideas to the discussion. |
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Thinking About Maths Posters |
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Millgate House Publishers (2007)
Written with John Dabell
Set of 20 full colour A3 posters £20.00 + £3.50 VAT
You’ve seen the highly popular and successful Concept Cartoons in Science, now here’s the maths version!
Gets your pupils thinking and talking about Maths
Highly motivating.
Leads pupils into maths problem solving.
Supports assessment for learning.
Covers the key areas of maths, with background information and ideas for follow up activities.
Easy to use in the classroom as a part of normal teaching.
Aimed at primary and secondary. |
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Maths on Fire
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John Dabell
Millgate House Publishers
ISBN 978 0 9527506 4 2
£25.00+ £2.10 VAT single user license
£45.00 + £5.60 VAT primary/ middle/secondary/university site license
Maths on Fire provides guidance and examples of how matchsticks can be used in a range of mathematical puzzles across a wide age range. |
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Maths on Fire consists of a book and CD of 66 engaging matchstick puzzles. The main target age range is 8-14. The book is printed in black, white and red throughout and is photocopiable. The CD which comes with the book is fantastic – fully interactive, with on-screen answers, extra questions, the facility to create your own puzzles and a lead in to simple algebra. Each book comes with a set of brightly coloured ‘matchsticks’ for tabletop puzzling.
Quote from a Year 5 pupil “WOW – this really makes you think!”
Answers are provided for teachers in the book and on screen. There are also six pages of generic questions to use with the puzzles, an A-Z of mathematical concepts, a guide to naming polygons and guidance on planning.
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