Browsing Department of STEM Education by Subject "Children"

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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 ...

    • Having fun with functions 

      Hourigan, Mairead; Leavy, Aisling (INTO [Irish National Teacher's Organisation], 2011)

    • Let infants’ knowledge of pattern grow 

      Hourigan, Mairead; Leavy, Aisling (INTO [Irish National Teacher's Organisation], 2011)

    • Practical problems: using literature to teach statistics 

      Hourigan, Mairead; Leavy, Aisling (NCTM [National Council of Teachers of Mathematics], 2016)

    • Using architecture as a context to enhance students' understanding of symmetry 

      Hourigan, Mairead; Leavy, Aisling (AAMT [Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers], 2017)
      Working within the context of a contest to find the most beautiful tourist attraction in the world, Year 5 students investigate the most symmetric building from a short-list of three iconic buildings. This involves ...