Inside Education On 103.2 Dublin City Fm

Presented and produced by Seán Delaney Theme tune by David Vesey This week I am joined on the programme by Professor David Clarke and Dr. Man Ching Esther Chan from the Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne. We discussed many aspects of research and teaching, with a focus on mathematics, tasks, questioning and language. Among the topics discussed were: Why a laboratory classroom was set up at the University of Melbourne The social unit of learning research project The layout of the laboratory classroom Negotiating of meaning in mathematics tasks (e.g. meaning of average) Using open ended tasks in teaching mathematics Marking answers to open ended mathematical tasks Involving students in assessing Sources of open-ended tasks If the area of an apartment is 60 square metres, what might the five-room apartment look like? Picture a bar graph where all you have are the bars and the axes but no labels of any sort. What might this be a bar graph of? Label the bar graph and explain what informa