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Lesson Plan: A problem-solving activity about understanding the ratio concept and mathematical reasoning. Subject: Mathematics. Age of students: 11-14 years. Hardware: Tablets (iPad 1 per class or student). Software: Socrative or Classflow + Apple airserver, OR Showme and Reflector, OR Plickers. Functionalities of Technology: Sending and displaying, Processing and analysing. Time needed: 2-3 hours. FaSMEd…
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Tessellations

Lesson Account: A lesson focusing on 2D shapes and tessellations. Subject: Mathematics. Age of students: 10-11 years. Hardware: iPads and Interactive whiteboard. Software: ‘Tessellation Creator’ app. Functionalities: Sending and Displaying. Time: 1 hour. FaSMEd Partner: University of Nottingham. Summary The lesson focused on clarifying concepts and terminology about 2-D shapes before students explored the concept of…
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The Archaeologist Giancarlo

Lesson Plan: “The archaeologist Giancarlo” is a sequence of lessons set within the context of early algebra. The lessons involve interpreting, comparing and discussing different representations (verbal, symbolic, graphical) of a relationship between two variables. Subject: Mathematics. Age of students: 9-12 Years. Hardware: Tablets for students PC for the teacher Data Projector Wireless router. Software:…
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Time-distance graphs with applications

Lesson Plan: A lesson using applications to collect and display student responses (Socrative, Classflow, Plickers or Showme). Subject: Mathematics. Age of students: 11-14 years. Hardware: Tablets (iPad 1 per class or student). Software: Socrative or Classflow + Apple airserver OR Showme and Reflector OR Plickers. Functionalities of Technology: Sending and displaying, Processing and analysing. Time…
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Time-distance graphs with IDM-Tclass

Lesson Plan: A sequence of lessons using the connected classroom technology, IDM-TClass. The lessons start with some tasks on the interpretation of a given time-distance graph and develop through the matching between graphs and stories and the construction of graphs associated to specific stories. Subject: Mathematics. Age of students: 10-14 years. Hardware: Tablets, pc, IWB…
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Walking a Graph

Lesson Plan: A lesson using motion sensors for understanding time-distance graphs. Subject: Mathematics. Age of students: 11-12 years. Hardware: Computer with Pasco data logger and echo sound sensor. Software: Pasco SparkVue software. Functionalities of Technology: Processing and Analysing. Time needed: 90 minutes. FaSMEd partner: Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Summary: The objectives of this…
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Who has the juiciest apple? / Wer hat den saftigsten Apfel?

Lesson Plan: Planning, performing and recording an experiment about the surface-to-volume ratio. Subject: Fach: Science (Biology). Naturwissenschaften (Biologie). Age of students: Alter der Lernenden: 12-14 years. 12-14 Jahre. Hardware: Tablets. (or Laptops, or PCs). Software: PowerPoint. Functionalities of Technology: Funktionalitäten der Technologie: Providing an Interactive Environment. Bereitstellen einer interaktiven Lernumgebung. Time needed: Benötigte Zeit: at…
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Formative assessment in Science and
Mathematics Education (FaSMEd)
The Research Centre for Learning and Teaching
Newcastle University
NE1 7RU
UK

Email: fasmed@ncl.ac.uk