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 |