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Tip 58. Five ideas to improve our choice of examples
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
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Tip 57. Teach decision-making separately
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
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Tip 56. Fourteen ideas to improve the explanation of a concept
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…
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Tip 55. Use related examples and non-examples to explain technical language
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…
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Tip 54. Five ideas to show students why what we are learning today matters
Summary of all five ideas: Sarah Cottingham has a great post about curiosity here Christine Counsell describes the idea of hinterland knowledge here Dan Meyer describes the headache-aspirin approach here General links
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Tip 53. Assess relevant prior knowledge for each idea, not for the whole sequence
Adam Boxer shares some thoughts about prior knowledge here Tom Sherrington writes about prior knowledge here General links
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Tip 52. Respond to prior knowledge assessment
All the resources shared about responsive teaching in Tip 37 and Tip 38 are relevant here General links
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Tip 51. Assess relevant prior knowledge
The original paper where Pointon and Sangwin share their question taxonomy is here Adam Boxer discusses monosemic and polysemic questions on my Mr Barton Maths podcast here All the resources shared in Tip 24 about checking for understanding are useful here General links
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Tip 50. Prioritise relevant prior knowledge
The blog that inspired this approach to prioritising prior knowledge can be read here General links
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Tip 49. Plan relevant prior knowledge
Adam Boxer shares some thoughts about prior knowledge here Tom Sherrington writes about prior knowledge here General links