Making Your Own Sense

Reflections on maths, learning and maths learning support, by David K Butler

A Day of Maths

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Last Monday, I was invited into my daughter’s Year 7 classroom to do a full day of maths with the students. It was the Best Day Ever.  I had so much fun giving the students things to think about, and watching and helping the students think and talk about them.

You can read the series of seven blog posts in PDF form here. 

The titles of the seven posts are:

  • Best! Day! Ever!
  • Quarter the cross
  • Zero zeros
  • Spotless dice
  • Looking at maths art
  • Hotel Infinity
  • Thanks for coming

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2 responses to “A Day of Maths”

  1. Three types of infinity – Making Your Own Sense

    […] yes, but they’re both the same as ℵ0. This is why you can still fit an extra person in Hotel Infinity even though it’s full.) And with ∞, well you can’t add anything to that at all. […]

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  2. Four alternatives to the four fours – Making Your Own Sense

    […] FURTHER UPDATE: I tried this in a Year 7 classroom, and a whole lot of interesting things happened! Check out the A Day of Maths series. […]

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