Caitriona Martin@mrsmartinmaths

Aims of the session• Why inquiry maths?• How do I run an inquiry lesson?• Where can you find resources

and information?

Andrew Blair developed inquiry prompts and created the website www.inquirymaths.com. He leads a maths department in Brighton.

Follow Andrew @inquirymaths on twitter.

24 x 21 = 42 x 12

• Problem solving is rarely integral to learning; instead, tended to be an activity that occurred towards the end of topic – did not place students in position of thinking deeply about how to solve the problem (69) or of drawing on their previous knowledge, and grappling with applying it in a new, unusual or complex context. (71)

• In the best schools, topics are introduced by presenting a suitable problem and inviting students to use knowledge in innovative ways. (103)

Why Inquiry Maths?Ofsted: Made to Measure (2012)

Inquiry Maths

KS3 Programme of Study (from September 2014)

inquiry maths

FIG Friday (once per fortnight)

•Functional

• Inquiry

•Groupwork

What’s so different to ‘normal’ classrooms?

Think like a mathematician

Vygotsky

Students learn to regulate their own

thinking when their behaviour is regulated

by collaborators in social activity and when

they regulate the thinking of others.

Inquiry Maths

Regulatory cards

Inquiry Maths

www.oeis.orgNumbers that are congruent to {0,2} mod 6.

How open should the inquiry be?

Setting the level of the prompt

(2,3) (6,12)

ZPD

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www.inquirymaths.com

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