Author: Craig Barton

Here is a list of all the research linked to in this section in the order they appear: Alexander Renkl discusses the different types of self-explanation prompts in his interview with Ollie Lovell here Michael Pershan describes how he uses self-explanation prompts in his worked examples, first with Ollie Lovell here, and then with me…

Summary of all 14 ideas: A good summary of the Split-Attention Effect is by Inner Drive, here A teacher reflects on their attempt at Silent Teacher here John Dabell describes his take on the silent teacher approach here Michael Pershan and I debated Silent Teacher on my Mr Barton Maths podcast here Alexander Renkl discusses…

You can read the Atkinson (2000) paper here You can read the Alreshidi (2021) paper here Greg Ashman writes about example-problem pairs in maths here Joe Berwick writes about example-problem pairs in maths here General links

I haven’t been able to find anything else out there on student exercise books. Let me know if you do! General links

Adam Boxer writes about the peril of PowerPoint and how he prefers OneNote here I discussed explanations with Adam Boxer on my Mr Barton Maths podcast here Adam also has a great blog post on the use of technology to aid explanations here. Adam also shares some video examples of his explanations in this post here My visualiser…

Adam Boxer writes about the peril of PowerPoint and how he prefers OneNote here I discussed explanations with Adam Boxer on my Mr Barton Maths podcast here Adam also has a great blog post on the use of technology to aid explanations here. Adam also shares some video examples of his explanations in this post here My visualiser…

Marton and Pang’s paper is available here The Sun (2011) paper is available here The Watson et al (2016) paper is available here I have also collated some of my other favourite research papers about the choice of examples here MorgsEd shares a thread about worked examples here General links

You can find the sequence of questions on identifying the subject of the formula here You can find the sequence of questions on identifying the relevant sides of a trapezium here I have lots of these types of sequences on my Variation Theory website here General links

Summary of all 14 ideas: I discussed explanations with Adam Boxer on my Mr Barton Maths podcast here Adam also has a great blog post on the use of technology to aid explanations here. Adam also shares some video examples of his explanations in this post here Sandringham research school has a post about features…

Peps McCrea has a great thread about Variation Theory here You can find my triangle sequence here You can find the adjacent angles on a straight line sequence here I have lots of these types of sequences on my Variation Theory website here Marton and Pang’s paper is available here There are lots of examples…