The decimal place.
Welsh schools have greater autonomy than those in England to decide on how Maths is taught. LA adviser John Rawlings has been working with Maths consultant Richard Dunne and class teacher Pamela Morgan to revolutionize the teaching of decimals. We eavesdrop on the fifth lesson. Pamela has year 4/5 a...
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | This edition in English. |
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[England] :
Teachers TV/UK Dept. of Education,
2006.
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| Series: | Education in video
KS1/2 maths ; 3 KS1/2 maths ; 4 |
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| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press) |
| Summary: | Welsh schools have greater autonomy than those in England to decide on how Maths is taught. LA adviser John Rawlings has been working with Maths consultant Richard Dunne and class teacher Pamela Morgan to revolutionize the teaching of decimals. We eavesdrop on the fifth lesson. Pamela has year 4/5 and is trialling a system where the vocabulary of decimals and the relationship to vulgar fractions is emphasized. Firstly they revise how 1/10, 0.1, .10, and one tenth have the same value but a different appearance . There is a debate about the difference between .12 and 1.2 when expressed in tenths. Group work follows where pupils take a number and break it into its component parts. Again the vocabulary of Maths is emphasised as thousandths are introduced. Finally, pupils work in groups to add three decimal place numbers. Some groups subtract also, which involves what they call funny counting, carrying across one hundredth to make ten thousandths to make a subtraction possible. John Rawlings, LA adviser for Neath Port Talbot chairs a discussion between maths consultant Richard Dunne and class teacher Pamela Morgan on teaching decimals at KS2. They look back at the lesson featured in The Decimal Place 1 and comment on visits to other local schools where different approaches are adopted. They discuss how Pamela concentrates on how decimals can be represented and how they can be written with the same value but a different appearance. We see a number stick and line method to introduce decimals and a teacher who uses an everyday situation, money, as a starting point. An on-screen calculator is used to show the relationship between decimals and vulgar fractions. The panel contrasts these starting points. The panel reflect on the group work in Decimal Place 1, especially how talking calculations through qualifies how, say,10 hundredths is a tenth. Taking a hundredth and making ten thousandths to perform a subtraction is fully explored. |
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| Item Description: | Title from resource description page (viewed Mar. 5, 2012). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (36 min.). |