Introduction
The aims of the Working Party
- To set up a working party of teachers across the primary phase
- To explore the range and uses of ICT within the daily mathematics
lesson
- To develop guidance and support for teacher within Hertfordshire
and to promote such guidance on the Hertfordshire Grid for Learning
Working Party Members
- Karen Wicks - Senior Strategy Consultant
- Sue Pennington - ICT
Consultant
- Barry Goodman - Watchlytes School, Welwyn Garden City
- Paul Turner - Round Diamond JMI School, Stevenage
- Janet Hall - St. Mary's CE Primary School,
Baldock
- Phil Hart - Swallow Dell, School, Welwyn Garden Cirty
- Mark Holdsworth - St. Albert the Great RC Primary School,
Hemel Hempstead
Arrangements for the Working Party
The working party met once a half-term for one year to explore
the use of ICT in a range of settings and to support the following
areas of mathematics identified within the National Numeracy Strategy
Framework for teaching Mathematics:
- Explore, describe and explain number sequences
- Practise and consolidate number skills
- Explore and explain patterns in data
- Estimate and compare measures of length, distance, angle and
time
- Experiment and discuss properties of patterns in shape and
space
- Develop mathematical vocabulary, logical thinking and problem-solving
skills
The Range of ICT
There is a wide range of ICT resources available for teachers
to use in the classroom. This includes overhead projectors, OHP
calculator, pocket calculators, television broadcasts, video camera,
audio cassettes and the use of computers and software. This site
focuses on the use of computers as an aid to teaching mathematics.
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