If you've ever had to answer the question "What do mathematicians do?" this is a wonderful article to refer to. Kevin Hartnett, from Quanta Magazine, paints a vivid picture of what active mathematics researchers do when locked in a cabin for four days.
Read the full article here.
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The Effortful Educator offers his five pillars for teaching in the new online environment. Here they are:
1. Require only what is necessary 2. Carry over norms, when possible, from the physical classroom. 3. Don't stress about the work. 4. Communicate 5. Give the benefit of the doubt. Read the full article here. Reflections on teaching online and contemplating how to move forward into the next semester. Read the full article here. It's time to plant our feet, take a breath, and figure out how to get good at online teaching.
Math with Bad Drawings shares some of his favourite Tweets and sites with interesting maths things. On the left is a visualisation of prime factors. Read the full post here. Carrie Arnold from Quant Magazine writes about recent findings which add weight to the evidence that intransitive competitions between species enrich the diversity of nature.
Read the full article here. Authors: Solar, Ortiz, Deulofeu, & Ulloa
Journal: International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology Abstract: Mathematics classrooms in which students engage in argumentation constitute a favourable context to analyse how teachers recognize and incorporate student contingencies. Through exploratory case studies, we examined three mathematics lessons in which teachers support argumentation in contingent situations triggered by student errors. Teachers’ argumentation support was defined as comprising three elements: mathematical tasks open to discussion, communicative strategies, and strategies to recognize students’ thinking. This three-strategy set is termed argumentative orchestration in contingent situations. Results show that all three strategies encourage argumentation in the mathematics classroom during contingent situations; more specifically, taking measures to recognize students’ thinking significantly fosters the incorporation of contingent situations in the mathematics classroom.
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Recordings of sessions
Thursday - welcome
We are pleased to announce that the theme of this year's FYiM workshop to be held in Brisbane is
Celebrating 10 years of First Year in Maths!
Our first forum was in 2013 at The University of Melbourne. Let's look back on 10 years of talking about teaching maths and statistics at the first-year level. What is still relevant? What has changed? What new challenges lie ahead?
Here is the programme.
Details of the workshop are:
When: Thursday 6 July and Friday 7 July - 10 am to 5 pm
Where: The University of Queensland, St Lucia campus and via Zoom
Cost: FREE! Morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea will be provided thanks to UQ's School of Maths and Physics. You are welcome to join us for dinner (at own cost) on Thursday night at a local/CBD restaurant.
We look forward to seeing you in sunny Brisbane!
Deb, Don and Michael
FYiMaths National Steering Committee
Thursday - welcome
We are pleased to announce that the theme of this year's FYiM workshop to be held in Brisbane is
Celebrating 10 years of First Year in Maths!
Our first forum was in 2013 at The University of Melbourne. Let's look back on 10 years of talking about teaching maths and statistics at the first-year level. What is still relevant? What has changed? What new challenges lie ahead?
Here is the programme.
Details of the workshop are:
When: Thursday 6 July and Friday 7 July - 10 am to 5 pm
Where: The University of Queensland, St Lucia campus and via Zoom
Cost: FREE! Morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea will be provided thanks to UQ's School of Maths and Physics. You are welcome to join us for dinner (at own cost) on Thursday night at a local/CBD restaurant.
We look forward to seeing you in sunny Brisbane!
Deb, Don and Michael
FYiMaths National Steering Committee
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