Perimeter and area
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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

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Area of a triangle

What do students do well at in terms of area of a triangle, where do they struggle, and what can we do to help?

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