Measurement today. Not one of my personal favourites, and I unfortunately haven't spent a lot of time teaching area and perimeter to my students. I've mostly focused on time, angles, volume, temperature etc - this absolutely needs to change! We teach Measurement in term 1 of each year so I've made it my goal to focus on area, perimeter and volume for my next unit plan. It will mean finding or creating a suitable assessment in te reo Māori, but I'm sure with my amazing mentor's support it can be done.
Classroom practise: I am finding it easier to stick to the system that I am already using for my maths website so I haven't started using taskboards yet. I think if I just focus on using them for teaching strands for now (algebra for term 4, measurement for term 1 2025, and so on) then that will be an easier approach.
Rich task Thursdays (or Fridays on an MPI week) are becoming a normal part of the classroom programme. I try to allow 40-45 minutes for this - the students are often finished way quicker than that! I obviously need to find some more challenging tasks. However we are still developing the discussion aspect of the activity - it doesn't seem to matter how I change the groupings, there is always someone who dominates, or someone who will quite happily say nothing at all - so while the maths element of rich tasks seems to be pumping, the discussion side of it is not.
See you soon Manaiakalani Summit Rarotonga :)
