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Mathematics through competences for lower secondary school

Workshop teaching, practical suggestions and real-life tasks

Product: Book

Trim size in cm: 21x29,7

Pages: 224 in two colours

ISBN: 978-88-590-1168-2

Publication date: 01/09/2016

Suitable for: Lower secondary 1st level (ages 10-11), Lower secondary 2nd level (ages 12-13)


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The workshop methodology interweaves didactic and practical mediation, enables diversified, transversal planning and stimulates cooperation and sharing, encouraging an active research attitude to knowledge based on curiosity and challenge.

The result is a school with the aim of rendering its pupils competent, organising learning situations so that   they can all observe, research, hypothesise, plan, experiment, discuss, justify their choices, negotiate with others and build new meanings, in order to independently and responsibly resolve real-life tasks.

The specific characteristics of lower secondary school, with different teachers for various subjects, sometimes seems to be an obstacle to its full application, which requires a holistic and multi-disciplinary approach to learning proposals.

The authors demonstrate how it is possible to offer innovative planning methods where the competences to be acquired become the result of practice, reflection and internalisation of the learning process experimented, in line with MUIR national guidelines.

Mathematics through competences for lower secondary school offers teachers complete, flexible teaching programmes for the mathematics curriculum for all three years, with detailed instructions, analysis and insights.





















1.  Numbers      Dealing confidently with calculations involving whole numbers, rational numbers and relative numbers, mastering different representations

Estimating numerical size of various kinds and the results of operations
2.  Space

and shapes
     Recognising and classifying flat shapes and space according to their properties, understanding relationships between elements

Elaborating geometric elements to produce various kinds of transformations
3.  Data

and predictions
     Analysing and interpreting representations of data in order to extract information, make variability measurements and take decisions

Making probability assessments in situations of uncertainty (daily life, games etc.)
4.  Relationships

and functions
     Using and interpreting mathematical language (formulas, equations, Cartesian plane etc.), understanding
their relationship with natural language

 

Index

 

7             Introduction

21          topic area 1Numbers

23          workshop area 1 The mathematics juggler

51          workshop area 2 Numerical manipulations

87          workshop area 3 Estimates galore

105       workshop area 4 Chess: mind games

121       competency test A new net

133       TOPIC AREA 2Space and shapes

135       workshop area 5 Discovering planes!

161       workshop area 6 Third dimension

195       competency test A neighbourhood to discover

209       TOPIC AREA 3Data and predictions

211       workshop area 7 The right choice

225       competency test Goat or car? A difficult choice!

235       TOPIC AREA 4Relationships and functions

237       workshop area 8 Functions, my love!

249       competency test What's the weather like?