“Engaging for all participants.”
“Creative, engaging and fun! J”
“Loved the activities.”
“Interactive, engaging! Even got teachers focused!”
“Showing staff maths can be fun.”
“Fantastic idea for teachers to enter the mind of a student again.”
Teachers from Manly Vale Public School
“An excellent problem solving workshop to inspire the staff. A great follow up to the student workshop.”
Lisa Phillips AP MVPS
The best thing about the Professional Learning session was:
- The interactive challenges and the equipment.
- Modelling of the Singapore method – very useful
- Different questions/ collaboratively working with a teacher that I do not normally work with.
- The relay – working at different questions. Very interactive.
- Collaborative learning
- Engaging and relevant content.
- Idea of using mathematical packs (hands on materials) for enjoyable learning.
- Beating everyone
- Relay – hands on
- Tangram (3)
- Competition
- Letting teachers experiment with problem solving using concrete materials.
- Showing the staff fun and easy problem solving … and winning!
- Using hands on activities
- The stamping, racing other teams
- Hands-on activities and containers with equipment in them.
- Interactive – hands on, Problem solving ideas, resources
- When we had to work things out
- Having the chance to work with the materials.
- Being challenged. Having time to discuss problem solving.
- Great, creative activities. Very engaging. Experimenting with problem solving.
Teachers from Manly Vale Public School