Teaching maths to middle/high school students in Australia. Also at @enzuber@mathstodon.xyz
Hobart, Tasmania
Joined December 2010
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Nordin Zuber retweeted
Wait, another NEW SIM!
Our classic Calculus Grapher is now in #HTML5, with multiple new features, like the ability to explore tangents, area under the curve, and a predict mode.
Check it out!!
#math #iteachmath #calculus
phet.colorado.edu/en/simulat…
Nordin Zuber retweeted
Challenge: prove that the blue path and the red path have equal lengths.
No spoilers, please!
Instead, share thoughts on useful hints to help students with this problem.
#hintchat
Huge thanks and hat tip to @DavidKButlerUoA for this problem!
#iteachmath #mtbos
Nordin Zuber retweeted
For more than 50 years, mathematicians have sought an “einstein”--a simple shape that can only tile the plane nonperiodically. Now a retired print technician has found one! My latest for @QuantaMagazine quantamagazine.org/hobbyist-…
Nordin Zuber retweeted
This week's shape of the week is the salinon. pershmail.substack.com/p/sal…
Some bright spark decided it was a good idea to sell lemonade and ice cream spiders at lunchtime to raise money for something. My Year 7s literally bounced off the walls this afternoon - for real. One student proudly told me he had 3 of them. It showed 🤪.
Terrific lesson today using @DrFrostMaths Live! game to do a full 50 mins of revision practice with Year 7 students fully engaged for the whole period.
Nordin Zuber retweeted
Not surprising that @daisychristo is one of the few people talking sense about AI and education. daisychristodoulou.com/2023/…
Conversation with a new maths teacher about their university training to become a high school maths teacher : they did lots of Vygotsky, Piaget and Bloom's Taxonomy , but never shown Geogebra or Desmos!
Nordin Zuber retweeted
Latest from me in Schools Week on why ChatGPT is great but doesn't mean we have to re-imagine the curriculum.
It's "You can't just look it up", 2023 version!
'Some say we should throw out the traditional curriculum. I cannot agree with this' - @daisychristo
schoolsweek.co.uk/chatgpt-wh…
Nordin Zuber retweeted
Chatbots are not going to be revolutionary for teachers or schools or learning. But they might prompt changes in how we do things.
pershmail.substack.com/p/cha…
Today's reading (thank you to authors for sending me a copy!) : "Not a One-Way Street: Bidirectional Relations Between Procedural and Conceptual Knowledge of Mathematics" link.springer.com/article/10… poses some very strong challenges.
"In many Asian countries [...] practice is viewed as a route toward understanding, where there is a public perception that only through a great deal of practice can true understanding be developed."
"We consider possible reasons for why mathematics education researchers often believe that a conceptual-to-procedural ordering of instruction is optimal and why so little research has evaluated this claim. "
Nordin Zuber retweeted
Time to retweet this superb paper by
@ShanaKCarpenter, @StevenCPan and Andrew Butler on the benefits of spacing and retrieval practice: go.nature.com/3Ztna4J
Just stumbled across Derek Hurrell's great 2021 paper on conceptual and procedural knowledge. Really helps provide a framework for thinking about teaching mathematics and the learning sequences files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/E… . And lots of lovely references to recent studies.
Thinking more about making maths compulsory to age 18: theguardian.com/commentisfre…
