Using visualisation in maths teaching: Difference between revisions
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* Engaging in a number of activities that involve visualisation and learning from your own experiences what visualisation means. | * Engaging in a number of activities that involve visualisation and learning from your own experiences what visualisation means. | ||
* Learning the views of a well-known mathematics educator on visualisation and comparing your views with those of other secondary-school mathematics teachers; | * Learning the views of a well-known mathematics educator on visualisation and comparing your views with those of other secondary-school mathematics teachers; | ||
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About. This is an Open University web tutorial with exercises to explore and explain 'visualisation'. Imagery is a powerful force for perception and understanding. Being able to see something mentally is a common metaphor for understanding it. Visualising means summoning up a mental image of something. Some people can close their eyes and “see” a picture, but for others it has much more to do with imagining, than seeing. Try to picture a cube, the seven-times table, a graph of sin x. Now describe what you “see”...
Pedagogical content. This unit looks at visualisation(ta) as it relates to mathematics, focusing upon how it can be used to improve learning. It also identifies ways in which to make more use of visualisation within the classroom. (edit)
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| Title | Using visualisation in maths teaching |
| Topic | [[Topics/Visualisation|Visualisation]] |
| Teaching approach | [[Teaching Approaches/Visualisation|Visualisation]] |
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| Subject | [[Resources/Maths|Maths]] |
| Age of students / grade | [[Resources/Secondary|Secondary]], [[Resources/Primary|Primary]], [[Resources/Higher|Higher]] |
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| Files and resources to view and download | A study unit with exercises as PDF documents (Part of the Teach and Learn series from the Open University)
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