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Varying your approaches to teaching variables
(INTO [Irish National Teachers Organisation], 2011)
Our previous article Getting the balance right: The equals sign presented activities which can be used to introduce children to translating and solving word problems using equations where the unknown is represented with a ...
Crime scene investigation in the classroom
(INTO [Irish National Teachers Organisation], 2012)
The strand unit of Representing and Interpreting Data (Primary School Mathematics Curriculum, 1999) sets out objectives which emphasise the need for children to experience genuine data investigations. Investigations may ...
Providing challenge in pattern work in the infant classes
(NCE-MSTL [National Centre for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching and Learning], University of Limerick, 2012)
Compairing means
(INTO [Irish National Teachers Organisation], 2012)
A classroom mathematical exploration
of the mean
In this article, we outline a series of explorations
with data, spanning between 3
and 5 lessons, to develop conceptual understanding
of the mean. These explorations
were ...
Putting the learner into the curriculum, not the curriculum into the learner: a case for negotiated integrated curriculum
(University of Bahrain, 2014)
The question “what is good teaching?” leads to further questions about the nature of curriculum and decision-making. This paper explores the need and feasibility of a Negotiated Integrated Curriculum (NIC) to better empower ...
The effects of teacher professional development on rural students’ lexical inferencing skills
(Sage, 2016)
Rural students are at risk for vocabulary underdevelopment and often have less access to educational resources. The purpose of this investigation was to examine the effectiveness of an Internet-based Speech/Language ...
Collaborative digital learning in schools: teacher perceptions of purpose and effectiveness
(Routledge, 2010)
Research on the place of digital collaborative learning in schools has established its extensive use for the provision of online courses (Stevens, 2007), for learning within schools (Orech, 2009) and as a means of promoting ...
Breach of trust - getting it right for children in early childhood care and education in Ireland
(NZRECE, 2014)
In May 2013 an exposé of verbal, physical and emotional abuse of young children attending three early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings in Ireland was aired on national television in a documentary called Breach ...