Sunday, January 13, 2019

Developing conceptual thinking in maths. Article by Jo Boaler

Developing Mathematical Mindsets Jo Boaler

Great article to start the year and get all our teachers developing their knowledge and the best way to encourage the learning of fats and also the develop our student's maths mindset. Students learn and have a more 'superior performance' if they learn through strategies rather than memorization. It is best that automaticity is reached through the understanding of numerical relations, achieved through thinking about strategies.


The best learning is to use both parts of the brain left and right left side of the brain handles factual and technical information; the right side handles visual and spatial information. Researchers found that mathematics learning and performance are optimized when the two sides of the brain are communicating.12

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