Dan Pearcy

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The SGIS Maths Conf is shaping up to be a great day of professional learning this Friday! We're excited to welcome nearly 40 teachers to the International School of Lausanne for a full day of workshops. I've just put the finishing touches on my own session - can't wait!

@EmathsUK Thank you, Mark. I hope you’re doing well.

@DanielPearcy Looks great 👍

Our Maths Conference is shaping up to be a great day of professional development. If you're passionate about maths ed and looking for fresh insights, we’d love to welcome you! 📅 Friday 23 May 📍 International School of Lausanne, Switzerland 🔗 Details: shorturl.at/Hfy2p

The reason Andrew T*te and his ilk appeal to young men is because he provides a role model to boys who have none, or lack purpose or direction; he tells insecure kids they can be strong and powerful if they are like him. While lessons can be useful, the real way tackle this is to provide better models of meaning and purpose to them; teach them to see themselves as scientists, athletes, scholars, musicians. That comes through school cultures that constantly demonstrate and model the value of those ambitions, and teach children to a high standard of success. Because feeling successful is the antidote to childish, cartoonish, cruel forms of masculinity and potency. A few assemblies on 'don't be sexist' won't scratch the surface of a child's self-image, but it will make adults feel like they have done something.

We have 5 great workshop offerings for our maths conference happing in May this academic year, alongside 4 additional proposals. If you're interested coming to Lausanne in Switzerland, you'll find details and sign-up on the google form linked below. Link: forms.gle/1RuRHqoAkjpm32…

Excited to be hosting a maths conference this May at the International School of Lausanne in Switzerland. Workshop offerings include artificial intelligence in education, best practices in pedagogy, the IB Diploma Internal Assessment, and more. Come and join us!

@SuzanneRelou @ellenthompsonca @InteractMaths @BeckyHall75 @MathsTweetcher @PaulRodrigo2718 @plr141 Our understanding of it is based on previous subject reports in which if technology can be used, it should be, especially with AI. The interpretation is imperative of course, but long calculations aren’t necessary/not concise.

@DanielPearcy @ellenthompsonca @InteractMaths @BeckyHall75 @MathsTweetcher @PaulRodrigo2718 @plr141 Dan, what is yours and your department understanding about carrying out calculations by hand, for example finding regression equation by hand? Is this showing more understanding or not than finding from technology only?

Hope you all had good IBDP results this session! Any reflections so far? @BeckyHall75 @DanielPearcy @MathsTweetcher @InteractMaths @PaulRodrigo2718 @plr141

@ellenthompsonca @InteractMaths @SuzanneRelou @BeckyHall75 @MathsTweetcher @PaulRodrigo2718 @plr141 Yes, I wonder though whether the quality of the workshop leader is unfortunately a bigger factor than we’d like. I went in an IA cat 3 workshop 12 years ago and o came away feeling as confused as I went in. It’s being in a very strong department that helped me more.

@DanielPearcy @InteractMaths @SuzanneRelou @BeckyHall75 @MathsTweetcher @PaulRodrigo2718 @plr141 There is an IB cat 3 workshop dedicated to the IA.

@InteractMaths @SuzanneRelou @BeckyHall75 @MathsTweetcher @PaulRodrigo2718 @plr141 I don’t know why the IB can’t do better training on IAs. It took me working closely with IA markers to really understand how to advise students and mark the IAs. We’re running a conference next year in which I’d like a few sessions to be on Internal assessments.

@SuzanneRelou @BeckyHall75 @DanielPearcy @MathsTweetcher @PaulRodrigo2718 @plr141 Now we have the component grades, I am once again angry at IA moderation. Seems like they just pick something out of thin air.

@SuzanneRelou @BeckyHall75 @MathsTweetcher @InteractMaths @PaulRodrigo2718 @plr141 Thought the exams for AISL and AAHL were very fair. AAHL paper 3 seemed manageable which is great. We’re very lucky that we have 3-4 members of the department who moderate IAs so we’ve had a number of years in a row now in which none of our IAs haven’t been moderated up or down.

If you're interested in attending a maths conference in Switzerland next academic year - we'd love to have you.

@SuzanneRelou @colinfoster77 @C_Hendrick @P_A_Kirschner @PaulRodrigo2718 @mathsjem @MathsTweetcher We’re hosting a maths conference next year at ISL and some of the workshops will be research focused. I can send you our flyer if you like.

3/3 An example of this might be cold call. Even if a coachee agrees on its benefits, if others around them hold onto negative entrenched views it may be a barrier to classroom implementation. @mrbartonmaths @ollie_lovell

2/3 ...even if we assume you were able to help a coachee build a new mental model, if other colleagues in their community actively fight against this, the social pressure to conform to the norms of the community may outweigh the other mechanisms which make IC effective.

1/3 After some great training with @nickpointer_ on instructional coaching, it helped me reflect on why instructional coaching is more likely to fail without agreed upon principles for teaching and learning in a school...

@MathsWithMsB Wow, I hadn’t realized it was already large scale. It certainly seems that “productive struggle” requires a clear definition because it doesn’t seem at all glance to align with the mechanisms suggested by Kapur for productive failure.

@DanielPearcy How big were you thinking? (This involved 7453 students and 147 institutions.)

@greg_ashman Hi Greg, I remember that you have tweeted about productive failure in the past. Can I ask whether you’re aware of how well replicated it has been in recent studies? My belief is that it hasn’t been replicated and I’m hoping to have that verified.

@MathsWithMsB Thanks for linking this. I’d be interested to see if the results are the same on a wider scale.

@DanielPearcy @greg_ashman This has just appeared on my timeline: twitter.com/tes/status/179…

@mrbartonmaths Craig, are you aware of any research providing evidence of improved learning for tip 73 - consider no number questions? I’m worried about trialing it without knowing the evidence base behind it.

@PaulRodrigo2718 Unfortunately I don’t have anything like this, and haven’t seen anything. An interesting thought though - good luck with finding/making.

I remember someone had a display for the Casio CG50 (Graphical Display Calculator). I'm looking to re-vamp my displays and envision a Calculator that is as tall as the door. If anyone can remember or has some files for this then I would greatly appreciate you sharing!