MHF4U: Spiralling in the Vertical Classroom

Resources Used

Peter Liljedahl’s research on Vertical Non-Permanent Surfaces with Random Groups.

http://www.peterliljedahl.com/

Twitter – #MTBoS – which is the Math Twitter Blog-o-Sphere

Carol Dweck’s research on Growth Mindset vs. Fixed Mindset

http://mindsetonline.com

Massive online course taught by Jo Boaler of Stanford on how to learn math – it is still offered and highly recommended for teachers, parents and students.

http://scpd.stanford.edu/instanford/how-to-learn-math.jsp

John Hattie:

Professor John Hattie is a researcher in education. His research interests include performance indicators, models of measurement, and evaluation of teaching and learning. John Hattie became known to a wider public with his two books Visible Learning and Visible Learning for Teachers. Visible Learning is a synthesis of more than 800 meta-studies covering more than 80 million students. According to John Hattie, “Visible Learning is the result of 15 years of research about what works best for learning in schools.” TES once called him “possibly the world’s most influential education academic.”

http://visible-learning.org/john-hattie/

Dan Meyer’s work on getting rid of textbook-like questions

 

http://blog.mrmeyer.com/

Our google site which includes the course plan with activities and resources.

It can be found at:

https://sites.google.com/a/ocdsb.ca/spiralling-in-mhf4u/

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