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Budding architects: Exploring the designs of pyramids and prisms
(AAMT [Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers], 2015)
The context of students as architects is used to examine the similarities and differences between prisms and pyramids. Leavy and Hourigan use the Van Hiele Model as a tool to support teachers to develop expectations for ...
Geometric growing patterns: what’s the rule?
(AAMT [Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers], 2015)
We explore several examples of the way in which to use geometrical growing patterns. Examples are situated within interesting contexts to elicit algebraic generalisations by working through a five-phase analysis process.
What’s a real 2D shape? Designing appropriate geometric instruction
(AAMT [Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers], 2015)
Mairead Hourigan and Aisling Leavy describe a range of teaching and learning activities focusing on the identification and classification of 2-dimensional shapes. The activities described are useful in highlighting students’ ...
An bhearna idir an teanga agus an t-ábhar a dhúnadh sa tumoideachas: Cur chuige bunaithe ar staidéar ceachta
(An Chomhairle um Oideachas Gaeltachta agus Gaelscolaíochta, 2015)
Tá sé léirithe sa taighde go bhfuil éifeacht leis an bhFoghlaim Chomhtháite Ábhar agus Teangacha (FCÁT) i suíomhanna teanga éagsúla. Mar sin féin, níl tuiscint iomlán againn fós ar chomhtháthú teangacha agus ábhar in ...