Getting the Buggers to Add Up 2nd Edition

Mike Ollerton (Author)

Getting the Buggers to Add Up 2nd Edition

Mike Ollerton (Author)

Paperback ~~£19.99~~ £9.99

Paperback £19.99

Paperback £19.99

Quantity

In stock

£9.99 RRP £19.99 Website price saving £10.00 (50%)

Add to basket

Add to wishlist

Enjoy 30% off all our Education books to celebrate going back to school!

Delivery and returns info
Free UK delivery on orders £30 or over

Description

The new edition of this extremely practical guide equips teachers with a huge number of strategies for improving pupils' mathematics and problem-solving skills in the classroom. Mike Ollerton shows how active learning, equipment based and surprise perspectives can bring mathematics alive. This edition includes a brand new chapter on 'strategies and principles in mathematics classrooms'. Brimming with useful tips and inspirational advice on every aspect of teaching mathematics, this book will prove essential reading for maths teachers everywhere.

Introduction
1. What is mathematics, why teach it and why learn it?
2. Strategies for teaching mathematics
3. Mathematical surprises
4. People-math
5. Using practical equipment in mathematics classrooms
6. Mental mathematics
7. Mathematics across the curriculum
8. Teaching mathematics through 'real-life' contexts
9. Mathetmatics and ICT
10. Planning a scheme of work on pedagogic foundations
11. Managing a mathematics classroom
12. Developing students' thinking skills
13. Teaching mathematics without a textbook
14. Mathematics and ...
15. Daring to be different
16. And finally ... everything is connected

Product details

Published	03 Apr 2006
Format	Paperback
Edition	2nd
Extent	264
ISBN	9780826489142
Imprint	Continuum
Dimensions	216 x 138 mm
Series	Getting the Buggers
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Author

Mike Ollerton

Mike Ollerton taught for 25 years in schools and 1…

" ... This book is excellent value and of interest to the NQT as well as the experienced teacher. Get it, read it and put it into practice." TES

Blurb from reviewer
"I can't tell you how much I've enjoyed reading and thinking about this book. I would make staff read it, saving all our INSET budget. It resonates so well with our Teaching and Learning and Behaviour policies that staff, for various reasons, can't, won't, don't always apply." Catherine Sykes, Deputy Headteacher, Gawthorpe High School, Burnley.

Blurb from reviewer
It is well written, speaks directly and passionately to its intended audience and uses the author's real-life experiences of being a mathematics teacher...to support his beliefs about the nature of mathematics...I recommend the book to all practising mathematics teachers and their senior managers, to trainee teachers and their teacher, in whatever route. Anne Sinkinson, Journal of Education for Teaching

Blurb from reviewer
This book is rooted in experience within some pretty tough teaching environments and the author emphasises the importance of activities which will capture the attention and imagination of the modern teenager... I thoroughly recommend this book to anyone who teaches in a modern comprehensive school. Mark Thornber, The Mathematical Gazette

Blurb from reviewer
'Getting the Buggers to Add Up is a mixture of Mike's insights, experiences and opinions regarding the teaching and organising of mathematics in secondary schools. Ideas are fast-flowing for making mathematics teaching both fun and relevant for students. Areas such as teaching mathematics through real life...are backed up with practical ideas and examples that leave you itching to get back into the classroom and try them out. There is something in this book for everyone....Some well thought through philosophy and interesting political opinion make this a great read.' ~ Nat Parnell, The Teacher, November 2006

Nat Parnell, Teacher Magazine