General
Creative Teaching and Learning means using lesson tasks to engage and stimulate students’ interest and allow them to explore the maths involved. These tasks are often open ended to encourage students to decide how they want to investigate the problem, and the direction they take the activity in. In practise, this means staff introduce the task to students and support them to take ownership of their approach and follow their own line of enquiry. The support required will depend on the age, ability and independent working skills of the students and this may vary also depending on the task used. Another aspect of creative teaching and learning is to enable pupils to apply their mathematics skills to solve problems given in different contexts. For these to be meaningful, the problems used should be relevant to students’ lives and interests.
This booklet contains ideas from members of the Hampshire Leading Maths Teachers group '11-19 curriculum changes':
Pat Arthur, Warblington School
Claire Baulin, Ringwood School
Natasha Cowan, Wildern School
Pat Haffenden, John Hanson
Sue Humphrys, Henry Beaufort School
Martin Hole, Thornden School
Micheal Townsend, Crestwood College for Business and Enterprise
Jenny Burn, Inspector/Adviser
The purpose of this booklet is to share our work and inspire other colleagues to incorporate more creative teaching and learning activities into their classrooms and departments.
Another key focus of these activities is developing students’ functional maths skills. This is through the investigative nature of the tasks, and applying maths knowledge to find a solution.