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Data handling: favourite zoo animals
(4-5 year-olds) The children in
this class had visited the local zoo the previous day and when they
arrived at school were engaged in heated discussions about the
‘best’ animals they had seen.
Their teacher capitalized on their
interest by suggesting they might find out what their friends’
favourites were. Several children chose to represent their own
preferences. Bianca drew a tiger, lion, giraffe and - and
then decided to write her friends’ names at the foot of her paper as
each of them told her which their favourite animal was from those
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Tommy drew his favourite animals
(left to right) – a lion, a crocodile, a giraffe and a tiger. Each
time he asked one of the children to name their choice, Tommy marked
a cross beneath the animal they had selected.
Later when we looked at the children’s
findings it became clear that some were easier to interpret than
others and this led to a discussion of possible ways of representing
findings so that others could readily interpret and understand the
data.
For young children data handling is
far more meaningful if they can make personal decisions such as
these and come to shared understanding through dialogue. These
examples show individual’s thinking at the time (rather than one
that is ‘better’ than the other) and are equally important in the
children’s development.
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Building on what the children already
understand has much more meaning to them than (for example) being
told to colour in squares on a block graph. It will help them to
understand the value of certain layouts and to make effective
choices about how to represent their data. |
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The past month has included several
courses for teachers that we have led. There have also been visits
to settings and schools in England involved in
Maulfry’s research
(CMGrEN) to discuss the exciting observations that the teachers
have made.
We are both also engaged in on-going
discussions with Researching
Effective CPD in Mathematics Education (RECME): a national
project by the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of
Mathematics (NCETM). For this research Dr Jennie Black will be
gathering data during the coming months on three aspects of our work
related to children's mathematical graphics. She will be talking to
teachers in the Bristol Children's Mathematics Network group
and to some of the project teachers involved in the CMGrEN
(European) Research on play, meaning-making and mathematics. She
will also visit Redcliffe Children's Centre in Bristol and
discuss their mathematics CPD with teachers and practitioners who
work there. Meanwhile Elizabeth is engaged in research on Leadership
in Children’s Centres, focusing on their research (more on this next
month).
The following items have been added to
the website this month:
Welcome to new
members
From
London and the South East,
welcome to:
Linda Agar,
St Winifred's Infant School, Lewisham;
Allison Aves,
Belmore
Nursery, Hayes;
Kelly Brown,
Fairview Community Primary School, Rainham;
Anna Chowdhury, Heber Primary
School, East Dulwich;
Gill Colclough,
Warren
Wood County Primary School, Medway;
Rachel Chapman,
Dorothy Gardner Centre, Westminster;
Bev Howland;
The Pilgrim School, Rochester;
Georgina Kershaw,
St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Gillingham;
Yvonne Kisiedu;
Berrymede Infants & Nursery, Acton; Kirsty
Lee, Gordon Infants School, Strood;
Sarah Mann,
Canterbury Christchurch University; Lyn
McCann, St William of Perth School, Rochester;
Birute Minkstimaite,
Archbishop Sumner Primary School, Lambeth;
Katy Parsons,
Hitherfield Primary School, Lambeth;
Rachel Pemberton,
St
Mary's Island CofE, Rochester; Emma Pobjoy,
Pastures Way Nursery, Luton;
Rivka Rosenberg,
Heber Primary School, East Dulwich;
Kerry Seales,
Delce Infants School, Rochester; Jane
Shields, Thames View Infants School, Rainham;
Chris Stanton, Chelsea Open Air
Nursery School and Children's Centre;
Karen Tillett,
Deanwood Primary School, Gillingham; Teresa
Kiely; Westminster;
Claire Vigis, Allhallows Primary
School, Rochester; Debbie Wakeling,
Hamsted Infant and Nursery School, Southend;
Robert Wyld, Harman's Water Primary
School, Bracknell; Valerie Yeales,
St Michael's RCP, Chatham
From the North of England
welcome to
Marion Storey;
Fishburn Primary School, Fishburn, Stockton-On-Tees, Cleveland
From
the South and
South West England
welcome to:
Allison Johnston,
Blaise Primary School, Bristol
And from the USA,
welcome to
Michael Read,
California State University at Monterey Bay.
Resources
Recent reports new on the website
New!
Independent Review of the Primary Curriculum: Latest reports,
Feb 29th 2008
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