FDG 202 - Session 2

Outcomes:

• In the context of Number:
  • Assess software against teaching and learning objectives.
  • Develop knowledge & understanding of how pupils can be most effectively supported to learn mathematics utilising a range of resources and developing problem-solving approaches to learning.
• ICT Skills:
  • Making Excel worksheets
  • Copying/capturing windows/wull screens
  • Using Paint to modify screen captures

Quest of Nine - as a starter together (off-line)

• Working in 2s or 3s - is this content-free and content-specific?
• Does it just address number - or are other areas of maths involved?

Can you find out what these function machines are doing? Can you work this out mentally? Would it be simpler if you made notes? Do you think children would need a recording sheet to help organise their results? (If you want to experiment with/adapt the sheet, you will have to save it, rather than open it).

Discus how and when the following could be used - you may wish to refer to the NNS (National Numaracy Strategy).

Where there are notes on BECTA's Numeracy INSET pages - I've put in a direct link to them - I've linked to the PDF version, but they are also available in as Word documents.

The role of calculators in the primary school - Virtual Teacher Centre, BECTA. This document gives the official advice, along with a number of suggested activities for Years 5 & 6. We will probably play two of them during the session (Frac Attack & the Price is Right) Currency converter (for Price is Right).

Calculator discussion from the March 2003 On-Line Numeracy INSET. Probably only the comments of Sian Williams of any value.

Download digiface font from this site - suitable for classroom wall displays. When you have saved the font file, drag it into the folder:
My Computer > C: drive > WINDOWS > FONTS

On-line calculators

• Fractions - manual
• Number Grid
- manual
• Twenty Cards - manual
• Multiplication Grid - manual
Number Line