{"id":1046,"date":"2024-02-06T04:58:19","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T04:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robvingerhoets.com.au\/maths\/?p=1046"},"modified":"2024-02-06T04:58:20","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T04:58:20","slug":"thoughts-on-a-balanced-week-for-maths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/robvingerhoets.com.au\/maths\/2024\/02\/06\/thoughts-on-a-balanced-week-for-maths\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on a balanced week for Maths"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hi there Cath,<br>Hope the weekend was a good one.<br>I&#8217;ve gone through all my articles but I can&#8217;t find anything specific.<br>For what&#8217;s it&#8217;s worth here are my thoughts on balance within a given week of<br>teaching maths:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>In the end the first priority is to present the kids with engaging and<br>worthwhile activities\/experiences &#8211; I don&#8217;t care if it&#8217;s the 4 different content<br>areas in 5 days AS LONG AS THOSE LESSONS ARE<br>ENGAGING\/CHALLENGING\/WORTHWHILE.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>If it was me I&#8217;d go for doing a unit of work sequentially. if you allocate 10<br>lessons for addn and subtn then teach those 10 lessons in a row &#8211; most times<br>the kids benefit from building on the knowledge and skills gained from the<br>previous lesson.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>If you have planned well then topics suit different weeks better than other &#8211;<br>for example, if you are about to go on camp then the week before the camp<br>should be allocated to a mapping challenge based on getting to the camp from<br>the school and this would need a number of sequential lessons. You drive the<br>planning and timing of units of work not the other way around.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Revision I&#8217;d rather see as something you plan for at the beginning of each<br>term. If you&#8217;re planning term 2 then allocate 5 days for revision &#8211; the first week<br>of the term works very well for this. Do that for each term (2, 3 &amp; 4) and you will<br>find you don&#8217;t need to allocate one day of every week &#8211; better for you (the<br>teacher)as it frees up more time and for the kids.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Planning for maths shouldn&#8217;t be &#8221;have a guess and let&#8217;s go for these 2 days<br>of something now&#8221; &#8211; it should be done with a view to integrating maths<br>wherever possible &#8211; within maths content areas and to other areas of the<br>curriculum. Avoid 2 days of multiplication and 2 days of area\/perimeter when<br>you can put these 2 topics together over 3 or 4 days and kids see the<br>connections and benefit accordingly.<br><\/strong>Anyway, just my thoughts CT.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there Cath,Hope the weekend was a good one.I&#8217;ve gone through all my articles but I can&#8217;t find anything specific.For what&#8217;s it&#8217;s worth here are my thoughts on balance within a given week ofteaching maths:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/robvingerhoets.com.au\/maths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/robvingerhoets.com.au\/maths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/robvingerhoets.com.au\/maths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robvingerhoets.com.au\/maths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robvingerhoets.com.au\/maths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1046"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/robvingerhoets.com.au\/maths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1048,"href":"http:\/\/robvingerhoets.com.au\/maths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions\/1048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/robvingerhoets.com.au\/maths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robvingerhoets.com.au\/maths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robvingerhoets.com.au\/maths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}