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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 of effective explanations complete with a video here

Zach Groshell has a great thread about the clarity of explanations here

Christine Counsell describes the idea of hinterland knowledge here

Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics by Peter Liljedahl is available here

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