Background

• 1. Where do the questions come from?

• 2. Where does the data come from?

• 3. How to get the data and explanations

• 4. A few thoughts about mistakes and misconceptions

What students meet and when

• 1. The challenge

• Image - The challenge

• 2. The results

Area from counting squares?

• 1. Introduction

• 2. What do students do well

• 3. Guess the misconception introduction

• Question 1

• 4. Question 1 - the results

• Question 2

• 5. Question 2 - the results

• Question 3

• 6. Question 3 - the results

• 7. What can we do to help?

• 8. Resource - SMILE cards

• 9. Resource - tricky shape

• Image - tricky shape!

• 10. Resource - sequence of shapes

• 11. Reflection

Perimeter

• 1. Introduction

• 2. What students do well

• 3. Guess the misconception introduction

• Question 1

• 4. Question 1 - the results

• Question 2

• 5. Question 2 - the results

• Question 3

• 6. Question 3 - the results

• 7. Reflection

• 8. What can we do to help?

• 9. Resource - mixed attainment shape

• 10. Resource - perimeter overlearning

• 11. Resource - perimeter of rectangles

• 12. Reflection

Area of a quadrilateral

• 1. Introduction

• 2. What students do well

• 3. Guess the misconception introduction

• Question 1

• 4. Question 1 - the results

• Question 2

• 5. Question 2 - the results

• Question 3

• 6. Question 3 - the results

• Question 4

• 7. Question 4 - the results

• 8. Reflection

• 9. What can we do to help?

• 10. Resource - dynamic geometry demonstration

• 11. Resource - pondering about parallelograms

• 12. Resource - equable parallelograms

• 13. Reflection

Area of a triangle

• 1. Introduction

• 2. What students do well

• 3. Guess the misconception introduction

• Question 1

• 4. Question 1 - the results

• Question 2

• 5. Question 2 - the results

• Question 3

• 6. Question 3 - the results

• 7. Reflection

• 8. What can we do to help?

• 9. Resource - area of a triangle demonstration

• 10. Resource - fractions of a rectangle

• 11. Resource - triangle various ways

• 12. Resource - area of a triangle grid

• 13. Reflection

Wrap-up

• 1. A possible planning structure

• IMAGE - A possible planning structure

• 2. Reflection

• 3. My online courses

Links to my other work

• My books

• My podcasts

• My websites

• Other stuff!