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Day, Lorraine; Hurrell, Derek – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2015
Lorraine Day and Derek Hurrell provide a convincing argument for using arrays to promote students' understandings of mental computation strategies for multiplication. They also provide a range of different examples that illustrate the benefits of arrays in the primary classroom.
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Mathematics, Mathematical Concepts, Computation
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Day, Lorraine – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2014
Lorraine Day provides us with a great range of statistical investigations using various resources such as maths300 and TinkerPlots. Each of the investigations link mathematics to students' lives and provide engaging and meaningful contexts for mathematical inquiry.
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Inquiry, Elementary School Mathematics, Teaching Methods
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Day, Lorraine – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2013
Lorraine Day reports on some of the findings of the Teaching Teachers for the Future Project. The Australian Curriculum constantly makes reference to digital technologies so we believe our readers will be interested to see how teachers are making use of technology in classrooms across Western Australia. The results may be used to…
Descriptors: Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Information Technology, Foreign Countries
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Bridge, Courtney; Day, Lorraine; Hurrell, Derek – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2012
As part of one of the undergraduate Bachelor of Education units offered as a specialisation unit in primary mathematics education at The University of Notre Dame Australia, the pre-service teachers were asked to complete an assignment. In this assignment they were given 12 typical algebra text book problems which they were asked to solve and then…
Descriptors: Algebra, Foreign Countries, Reflection, Best Practices