Comments on: Successful Students Think

By: Linda

Linda — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 05:07:05 +0000

Thanks for your careful reading and comments, Russel and Maria. Glad to hear that you use the Maths 300 lessons in a similar way, Russel. I feel somehow validated!! Yes, I did get to spend some time with Charles (and he was our guest presenter at the faculty retreat last year).
Maria – thanks for the information re the Conceptions of Mathematics study (1994). I’ve accessed the abstract and will follow up with the full article. It sounds very interesting and, yes, just up my alley.

By: Maria H. Andersen

Maria H. Andersen — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 19:03:46 +0000

Have you seen the Conceptions of Mathematics inventory developed by Crawford et al. (1998)? It sounds like it will test some of what you’re interested in.

By: Russel Montgomery

Russel Montgomery — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 15:45:45 +0000

Linda

Thanks for taking the time to write this reflective piece.

I use Maths 300 in the same way you do. I use it to set the context out of which I draw the key topic and skill set to be worked on.

Did you get to spend time with Charles Lovitt? I am usually bored at PD events. Most of it is pretty mediocre. But Charles. he seems to know his stuff and have maintained a strong connection with actual teaching. Quite rare.

Anyway. Thanks for the post. I actually read it to the end.