Grow beasts : Growing mathematical understanding

What do you do when you want to get your Stage 3 students authentically and enthusiastically engaged in the active construction of their understanding and fluency with measurement, data collection, representation and interpretation? How do you enable them to make choices about their learning, to mea...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published inAustralian mathematics teacher Vol. 71; no. 2; pp. 24 - 31
Main Authors Roddy, Mark, Behrend, Kat
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers (AAMT) 22.06.2015
The Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers, Inc
Subjects
Class activities
Communication Skills
Concept Formation
Data Collection
Elementary School Mathematics
Foreign Countries
Graphs
Learning activities
Management
Manipulative Materials
Mathematical Concepts
Mathematical thinking
Mathematics education
Mathematics Instruction
Mathematics Skills
Mathematics teaching
Measurement
Skill Development
Student engagement
Teaching Methods
Year 6
Australia
Online AccessGet full text

Cover

More Information
Summary:What do you do when you want to get your Stage 3 students authentically and enthusiastically engaged in the active construction of their understanding and fluency with measurement, data collection, representation and interpretation? How do you enable them to make choices about their learning, to measure with purpose, to record and organise the data they produce, to plot the points and to understand that the emerging line tells a story about something real, something changing. Here's one way to approach all of these objectives in an integrative and motivational context. Call in the Grow Beast! [Author abstract]
Bibliography:Refereed article. Includes bibliographical references.
AMT.jpg
Australian Mathematics Teacher; v.71 n.2 p.24-31; June 2015
ISSN:0045-0685
1839-4779