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|type= Teacher Education | |||
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| | |attribution={{OpenLearn}} | ||
| | |title=Using visualisation in maths teaching | ||
| | |topic=Visualisation | ||
| | |subject= | ||
| | Maths, |resourcenumber=TE012 | ||
|- | |image=visualising1.png | ||
| | |age=primary, Primary, Higher, Secondary, secondary | ||
| | |content=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. 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. | ||
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| | * Learning outcomes | ||
* Visualisation - a powerful force for perception and understanding | |||
* Starters - visualisation exercises | |||
| | * What does visualisation mean? | ||
| | * In the classroom | ||
| | * Conclusion | ||
| | * Next steps | ||
| | * References | ||
| | * Acknowledgements | ||
|} | |tagline=Thinking about visualisation in education. | ||
|Learning Objectives= | |||
* 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 ways that visualising could be incorporated into your classroom and consider resources that might be useful. | |||
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|resources=A study unit with exercises as [http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=2524 PDF documents] (Part of the Teach and Learn series from the Open University) | |||
|final=yes | |||
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