Giving my students and authentic purpose to carry out a statistical inquiry strengthens their connections to the task as a whole. This year ...

This afternoon I took part in the Amplifying Basic Facts toolkit lead by Donna Yates and I'm really glad I did because I came away with ...

Here's another game shared with us by Marie Hirst, our maths professional development provider. This game is found on the Transum site ...

This week I introduced a new activity shared by our maths facilitator Marie Hirst, into our maths warm ups.  Maths Scrabble , a game designe...

Today I had a 1:1 professional development session with Marie Hirst, our maths facilitator. I found this really worthwhile as the session wa...

We began our school year with a Maths professional development session run by Marie Hirst. It was a great way to begin our 2020 journey a...

Last week I joined the Te Hiku cluster for their TOD. Apart from meeting some lovely people and taking in the new learning myself, I had an ...

After our first few weeks of moving Spring Into Maths from a withdrawal group to an in-class programme, my target group are all excited for ...

Yesterday I had the opportunity to observe Karen, one of our amazing teacher aides, taking a Spring Into Maths session with three of my stud...

This week we have been creating our own maths games to help us consolidate the language and learning from this term. I decided to use this c...

Maths questions include numerical information that when combined with a mathematical symbol (or the text version of this), prompts s...

For the last year and a half I have watched one of my students who arrives every morning with a huge smile of his face completely fall to pi...

Earlier this week Greg Wong shared an awesome resource he had created as part of his teaching inquiry. Today I introduced ' Mr Wong...

Here is my first ever screencast. It describes how I have set up my google drive to store my digital modelling folders for learners to acces...

In 2013 I wanted to my class to take responsibility for ensuring their completed work was published to their individual blogs, so I asked th...

Last year after observing  +Chantal Millward  using Explain Everything (EE) on her iPad to create a rewindable learning resource, we ask...

Last week I went to my first session of maths professional development with Bobbie Hunter. What a fabulous opportunity! So much of what she ...

Some of my favourite lessons this year have been our silent challenges. The idea behind this is that instead of me 'telling' my lear...

We spent some time this week looking at how asking questions can help our learning. Below is the list of our own Room 5 'crowd source...