Monthly Archives: January 2018
Mixed Ability, Sets, and Streams – a teacher’s perspective – Part 2
I’ve taught sets, mixed ability, and streams. What follows isn’t any rigorous analysis, or appeal to research. From what I’m aware of the research, the conclusions aren’t exactly conclusive: lower attainers benefit from mixed groupings, higher attainers suffer. Mark McCourt … Continue reading
Atomisation – Compound Shapes
Recently I used the word coined by Bruno Reddy, atomisation, to describe the process of breaking ‘solve two simultaneous equations’ into 13 different sub-tasks. Even more recently. Ben Gordon used a similar approach to turn ‘find the area of … Continue reading
Mixed Ability, Sets, and Streams – a teacher’s perspective – Part 1
I’ve taught sets, mixed ability, and streams. What follows isn’t any rigorous analysis, or appeal to research. From what I’m aware of the research, the conclusions aren’t exactly conclusive: lower attainers benefit from mixed groupings, higher attainers suffer. Mark McCourt … Continue reading
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