Beyond the Blackboard:
Sparking Creativity in the Maths program with Digital Technology
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From: Common Practice Model (2023)
…use technology to support ākonga to communicate maths and make meaning using multiple representations to compare, contrast, and critique.
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Who are we?
What age students do you work with?
Drop it in the chat.
What do you notice?
What do you wonder?
What maths can you see?
💡Personalise images using a generative AI tool.
💡Poe makes great colouring page images
Still relevant today…. Pedagogy has to be first…
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Change is simple but it’s not always easy. Mel Robins (The 5 Second Rule)
How will you know if your students are engaged?
A great rubric from youcube.org to think about our maths programmes.
Niess, Sadri, and Lee (2007)
Bringing in the technology…
SAMR - What is the added value of the technology?
Dr. Ruben Puentedura
Things to think about….
What will they learn and how will they do that?
Split Screen Teaching
Start with what tools you already use or your students are familiar with.
Google Slides don’t have to be landscape.
File > Page setup > Custom > 21 x 29.7 cm = A4
You might add the problem, learners might add it themselves.
Use the paint format tool to highlight key words.
Use Mote to add recording options.
Scaffold thinking…
Use images from current news.
Adapt for whatever the focus is for your students.
Challenge students to create their own puzzles.
Use format options in Slides to play just parts of the video.
Chunk the video on different slides.
What do students need to do to solve the problem?
Encourage them to break the process into steps.
Developing Student Agency & Choice
Games + Mathigon + book + buddy = great maths conversations
Google Sheets
You choose - x or +
Conditional formatting can allow instant feedback.
Students can create their own and share.
Other Christina Pinto examples
Google Drawings can be combined with conditional formatting
Use conditional formatting for instant feedback.
Untick grid lines for an endless working area.
Use Google Drawings to show visualisation.
Google Sheets version
Numbers version
Use formulas to reveal the next question when they get the first one correct.
Vocabulary
Mathigon
Many different ways for learners to show their explorations visually. Share and discuss with others.
Learners can also explore and create new prompts.
Share with your colleagues.
Desmos
Great for discussions then take it to a creative task….
… create their own
Computational thinking: abstraction, decomposition
Designing and Developing Digital Outcomes:
Patterning:
Create a repeating pattern
Fractions
NA2-1: Use simple additive strategies with whole numbers and fractions.
Getting started with Groove Pizza.
Add your own topping and experiment with shapes, fractions and angles.
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Edpuzzle
What are the steps needed to solve the problems along the way in this edpuzzle task.
Can you identify any patterns?
What algorithm could you create to find the perimeter of a shape?
Khan Academy maths channel
Google Classroom - video questions
Create your own with students
Play, experience then create
their own puzzles.
Basic Facts
Change is simple, it’s not always easy…