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    Hourigan, Mairead (10)
    Leavy, Aisling (10)
    McMahon, Aine (10)
    SubjectMathematics (8)Teaching (6)Accessible (1)Algebra (1)Approaches (1)... View MoreDate Issued2012 (6)2011 (3)2010 (1)

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    Getting the balance right: the equals sign 

    Leavy, Aisling; Hourigan, Mairead; McMahon, Aine (INTO [Irish National Teacher's Organisation], 2011)
    Much of the number work carried out in primary classrooms contains elements of algebraic reasoning. In fact, equals sign work in junior and senior infants underpins much of the algebraic reasoning used in later years. In ...
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    Counting creatures: Exploring data with infants 

    Leavy, Aisling; Hourigan, Mairead; McMahon, Aine (INTO [Irish National Teachers Organisation], 2012)
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    Teaching algebra in the primary classroom: Functions, the function machine 

    Hourigan, Mairead; Leavy, Aisling; McMahon, Aine (NCE-MSTL [National Centre for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching and Learning], University of Limerick, 2012)
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    Facilitating inquiry based learning in mathematics teacher education 

    Leavy, Aisling; Hourigan, Mairead; McMahon, Aine (SMEC [Science and Mathematics Education Conference], 2010)
    A driving question in teacher education centers on how to help prospective teachers become expert teachers. The absence of a shared professional curriculum to prepare teachers to teach mathematics combined with the difficulty ...
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    Mathematics teaching matters: making complex mathematical ideas accessible to primary level children 

    Leavy, Aisling; McMahon, Aine; Hourigan, Mairead (St. Patrick’s College, Dublin, 2011)
    Reform of mathematics curricula has led to the expansion of topics such as algebra, data and probability being taught to primary level children. This new subject matter can be challenging for primary teachers to teach as ...
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    Children as data detectives 

    Leavy, Aisling; Hourigan, Mairead; McMahon, Aine (INTO [Irish National Teachers Organisation], 2012)
    Transforming the teaching of data Is your experience of teaching data less than exciting? Do you think there is more to teaching data than making bar charts of children’s favourite colours? And pictograms of modes of ...
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    Varying your approaches to teaching variables 

    Leavy, Aisling; Hourigan, Mairead; McMahon, Aine (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 ...
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    Crime scene investigation in the classroom 

    Hourigan, Mairead; Leavy, Aisling; McMahon, Aine (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 ...
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    Providing challenge in pattern work in the infant classes 

    Hourigan, Mairead; Leavy, Aisling; McMahon, Aine (NCE-MSTL [National Centre for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching and Learning], University of Limerick, 2012)
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    Compairing means 

    Leavy, Aisling; McMahon, Aine; Hourigan, Mairead (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 ...

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