Love2Learn

Imagine I love the word, the idea, the song (melody, lyrics, riffs). We received a (much-wanted) piano – a gift from a stranger (quick digression: husband asked at a local garage sale if they had a piano. The answer was no but that their brother had one to give away but it was in Bega – [...]

This is cross-posted in Inquire Within. Photo credit: wallyir from morguefile.com I’m really loving inquiry learning. As Edna Sackson has pointed out, I’m on my own inquiry journey. Perhaps because I’m new to it, I find it really is full of surprises - maybe it’ll always be full of surprises by its very nature. This is a positive spin on [...]

I like collaborative work and social constructivism, i.e. learning from and with others. Today, I got to use this method in collaboration with another year 8 maths teacher.  This post is both a lesson idea as well as a reflection on this type of learning. As an introduction to the new topic of Circles, this [...]

Problem-solving is arguably at the core of mathematical teaching and learning. That is, various concepts and skills are taught/learned in the hope of solving more and more complex problems. Logic is very much valued. I have always sensed that mathematics (re: Logic) and creativity are contradictory. I just read an interesting article on observations on [...]

Analogies In the course I attended recently, we spent a fair bit of time on discussing Analogies as a teaching-learning strategy.  There is probably not one person who has never used this strategy before, particularly if you ascribe to the thinking that we learn by connections.  Hence, the initial omission. However, I’ve learned today how [...]