Having started at my new school in January its been a whirlwind term and a half so far. As we head towards half term I am looking ahead to what to do after the end-of-year exams which take place in the first week back. I will have a couple of things left to cover from our scheme of work but should have around 3 weeks of time to play with some maths.
My plan is to set some hugely open ended tasks for the students. I am hoping that I can do some group work and then some individual work to get them planning and thinking in a different way.
At a previous school we used the SOLO taxonomy to emphasise levels of thinking and I am going to show this to the students in the hope of them moving to the abstract level.
The maths that they come up with is almost irrelevant. Almost. I hope that some will want to use maths they don't even know yet which I will help with. Most will stay in their comfort zone which will still produce excellent results. I want them to take some risks and experiment. The outcome I want though is a demonstration of thinking.
One task (the group one) will be one I've used in the past. The individual task is stolen from Dara O'Briain's show on Dave. I won't say what they are just in case those pesky kids (80's cartoon reference) are so bored that they read this blog and plan ahead (yes they would do that!).
So a bit of planning in how to introduce SOLO and the tasks and we should be ready.
Desire to understand.
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