Measures

The seminar, Inquiry Based Approaches to Measures, capitalised on the natural opportunities for integration between Measures in the primary school curriculum and the wider STEM objectives. Participants explored pupil misconceptions and developed mathematical proficiencies through practical activities, that embodied an inquiry based approach. Participants also explored planning and assessing inquiry based lessons.

Area 5 is a resource developed by the PDST Primary Numeracy Team and Dr Seán Delaney, Marino Institute of Education, focused on the strand unit Area for 5th class. It is designed as a ‘replacement unit’ for traditional textbooks and offers a problem-solving and enquiry-based approach to the teaching of the strand unit. You can read Seán Delaney's rationale for the replacement unit by following this link to his personal blog.