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Tip 68. Reflect after a worked example
I discussed explanations with Adam Boxer on my Mr Barton Maths podcast here Jo Morgan’s excellent book, A Compendium Of Mathematical Methods: A handbook for school teachers, is available here General links
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Tip 67. Three errors to avoid with the “Your Turn” questions
Tom Sherrington writes about the art of the handover here Mr Thornton describes his I do, we do, you do approach in history here General links
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Tip 66. Vary the means of participation for the “We do”
Anita Archer talks about the We Do phase on Ollie Lovell’s ERRR podcast here Tom Sherrington writes about the art of the handover here Mr Thornton describes his I do, we do, you do approach in history here General links
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Tip 65. Six ideas to improve ‘copy down the worked example’
A good summary of the Split-Attention Effect is by Inner Drive, here Alexander Renkl discusses the different types of self-explanation prompts in his interview with Ollie Lovell here Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics by Peter Liljedahl is available here General links
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Tip 64. Use self-explanation prompts after a worked example
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…
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Tip 63. Fourteen ideas to improve Silent Teacher
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…
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Tip 62. Make use of the power of Example-Problem Pairs
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
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Tip 61. Use student example books
I haven’t been able to find anything else out there on student exercise books. Let me know if you do! General links
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Tip 60. Use a teacher examples book
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…
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Tip 59. Model techniques live
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…