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Craig Barton in EEDI

Jan 23, 2018

How I wish I’d taught maths

The following is an excerpt from the Introduction to my book “How I wish I’d taught maths: lessons learned from research, conversations with experts, and 12 years of mistakes”. The book is available from Amazon, and all good (and evil) book retailers, but my publishers, John Catt…

What is a Diagnostic Question?

For the first 10 years of my teaching career, I used to believe for any given question there were two groups of students: those that could do it and those that could not. Those that could do it were fine to get on with the next challenge, and those that could not needed…

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Mateusz Zatorski in EEDI

Apr 6, 2017

Animating SVG with styled-components 💅🏻

A couple of months ago we started rebuilding our educational platform at Eedi. As we…

What makes a good Diagnostic Question?

In an earlier post, I explained the reasons why I am more than a little obsessed with using multiple choice diagnostic questions in every single one of my maths lessons. However, it turns out that not all diagnostic questions are created equally, and a bad…

Pythagoras: Guess the Misconception

This week on Guess the Misconception we have an innocent looking Pythagoras question. Now, what could possibly go wrong ?

What do you think the most popular wrong answer is, and why might a student select it?

Angles in a Triangle: Guess the Misconception

Following the hiatus of my Guess the Misconception series over the last 9 months, the response has been overwhelming. At least 2 people have asked when it is returning (wife and father). Well, you can’t keep ignoring your public for too long, so I am…

Fractions and Decimals: Guess the Misconception

Yes, it’s time for another in the series that everyone is talking about — and by everyone, I mainly mean me — Guess the Misconception.

This week I chose a beauty from AQA on fractions and decimals, designed for students…

Algebraic Expressions: Guess the Misconception

All you algebra lovers out there will have been wondering when the language of maths will be featuring in this Guess the Misconception series? Well, we all know students don’t have any miscocneptions whatsoever with algebra…

Asking Diagnostic Questions in class

In previous posts I have talked about what is a diagnostic question, and what makes a good one. Now I want to turn my attention to how we might ask and respond to a diagnostic question in the classroom environment. After all, if we cannot do this, then all our…

Fraction of an amount: Guess the Misconception

This week on Guess the Misconception we cover a common topic with a little twist.

What do you think the most popular wrong answer is, and why might a student select it?

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