Browsing STEM Education (Non-peer reviewed publications) by Subject "Mathematics"

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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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • Counting creatures: Exploring data with infants 

      Leavy, Aisling; Hourigan, Mairead; McMahon, Aine (INTO [Irish National Teachers Organisation], 2012)

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...