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What's All the Talking About?

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This fascinating article delves into the world of talk in the classroom and explains how an understanding of talking can really improve the learning of mathematics.

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Activities on the Gattegno Chart

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In this article, Alf outlines six activities using the Gattegno chart, which help to develop understanding of place value, multiplication and division.

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Picture Your Method

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Can you match these calculation methods to their visual representations?

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Supporting Students to Work Collaboratively

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This page, and the accompanying webinar recording, suggests ways in which teachers can help students to work more collaboratively.

Coloured wooden blocks arranged to make a two-by-two cube.

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Creating Cubes

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Arrange 9 red cubes, 9 blue cubes and 9 yellow cubes into a large 3 by 3 cube. No row or column of cubes must contain two cubes of the same colour.

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Triangle Pin-Down

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Use the interactivity to investigate what kinds of triangles can be drawn on peg boards with different numbers of pegs.

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Triangle or No Triangle?

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Here is a selection of different shapes. Can you work out which ones are triangles, and why?

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How Big Are Classes 5, 6 and 7?

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Use the two sets of data to find out how many children there are in Classes 5, 6 and 7.

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Measure Our Heights

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How could you measure the height of your friend without too much difficulty?

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Procedure Solver

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Can you think like a computer and work out what this flow diagram does?