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Here you can find links to the resources that were used during the Developing Mathematical Resilience Day held at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences on 10 July 2019.
Opening Plenary
Here are the observations made about what constructive feedback might look like:
Here are the more general observations on conditions to enable resilience:
KS2 Workshop
Here is a pdf of the slides that Fran and Liz used: 20190710ResilienceKS2Workshops.pdf
Here are the tasks we worked on together:
Triangle or No Triangle?
Name That Triangle!
Truth Or Lie
Doughnut Percents
Sticky Dice
Further reading/support:
Resilience and Perseverance Feature, including:
Primary Curriculum page, which includes links to our curriculum mapping document, all previous features, and collections of tasks
The Developing Group-working Skills feature includes an article where more silent groups tasks can be found
This brief article gives more information about the Explore Learning Mathematicians' Award (formerly known as the National Young Mathematician's Award), including links to previous tasks
Thinking Mathematically by John Mason, Leone Burton and Kaye Stacey
Habits of Mind: An Organizing Principle for Mathematics Curricula by Al Cuoco, E. Paul Goldenberg and Joan Mark
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KS3/4 Workshop
Here are the tasks we worked on in the morning and afternoon workshops:
American Billions - the solutions to the poster problem show examples of resilient work
Quadrilaterals in a Square
Number Jumbler and Always a Multiple?
Factors and Multiples Puzzle
What's Possible?
Product Sudoku
Here are the notes we made during the workshops about conditions for mathematical resilience to grow:
Further reading/support:
The Secondary Curriculum page has links to:
Curriculum Mapping document
Enriching the Secondary Curriculum
What we think and why we think it
Article by Sue Johnston-Wilder and Clare Lee - Getting into and staying in the Growth Zone
Article by Ems Lord - Curiosity: The Journey from Novice to Expert
Closing Plenary
Here is a pdf of the slides used: 20190710ResiliencePlenary.pdf