Auckland Maths Association

Another great AMA Saturday morning of great workshops. We learnt all about the Kalman Prize and other fellowships available for maths teachers. Was great to hear from teachers who had won these and what they did with the money. The first workshop was Stories in Mathematics By Caroline Yoon from Auckalnd university. A very nice look at how parents are not teachers and struggle to understand why our children don't know things. Also how they can course miss conceptions. Her example and story she had created was all about place value and the history behind it and how to teach it with correct materials and language. Then I attended Rob Proffitt-Whites workshops on Routines. He shared some great resources and of course links to his work. It was great to hear the key messages about rich routines-excerise, unfamilar, application and open. Assign competence problem solving recall and reason. Rich Routines- move n prove, groups and pairs to discuss and defend. Formative assessment. 10-12 minutes to solve. problem, extensions and consolidations. Use the know of the curriculum Quick quizzes-revisit what students should know. Formative assesment and good consolidation. Reminded us of the great ARBs that are free. Learners first facebook page. Then I attended Census at schools year 1-3 Looking at purposeful learning. Context that matters to ākonga. Links to literacy learning and vocabulary. Key action or outcome purpose of investigation. Using the new PPDAC posters off the web site. All the resources are on the web site. Talked about investigations that tells a story across time (depends on the action) Our Lost teeth. Book to support Throw your tooth on the roof. Compare and contrust, create graphs, analysis most, frequent, altogether,Summary display. Another great morning of learning and keeping up to date with changes. This is a link to the AMA site.