16 July 2016 Whats a parallelepiped How to

16 July 2016 What’s a parallelepiped? How to survive teaching English for Mathematics Hannah Gurr (EAP Tutor) Centre for English Language and Foundation Studies (CELFS) Session 4 A: 14: 10 – 14: 50 1

Outline • Background • Approaching materials development • Using Quizlet to teach maths vocabulary • Using Google+ community as a multimedia platform • Round-up / questions 2

Background • ‘Arts and Social Sciences’: Economics, Psychology • ‘Science’: Physics or Chemistry (lectures, labs, group tutorials) • 3 x 50 -min Maths lectures and 1 x 50 -min group tutorial • All foundation students do English (10 hrs per week) and Link Classes (Maths, Economics, Psychology, Law, Chemistry, Physics) at CELFS • Maths Link: 50 mins per week x 21 weeks 3

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Approaching materials development • Can I talk about the subjects on the syllabus? • www. mathsisfun. com 14

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Approaching materials development • Can I talk about the subjects on the syllabus? • www. mathsisfun. com • www. khanacademy. org maintained by Rod Pierce Dip. CE BEng, with contributions from many others 16

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Approaching materials development • Can I talk about the subjects on the syllabus? • www. mathsisfun. com • www. khanacademy. org • Many other useful videos on You. Tube 18

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What do my students think? n=18 IELTS level S 1: 7 – 8 S 2: 5. 5 – 6 Wed. 3: 00 -3: 50 pm – supposed to be free for sports/hobbies 29

End of course questionnaire 1 = agree (13 responses / 18 students) 4 = disagree 30

End of course questionnaire 1 = agree (13 responses / 18 students) 4 = disagree 31

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End of course questionnaire 1 = agree (13 responses / 18 students) 4 = disagree 33

End of course questionnaire 1 = agree (13 responses / 18 students) 4 = disagree 34

End of course questionnaire 1 = agree (13 responses / 18 students) 4 = disagree 35

End of course questionnaire 1 = agree (13 responses / 18 students) 4 = disagree 36

Student Presentations 2014 -15 & 2015 -16 142857 – a cyclic number Bayes theorem Chi Square test Euclid Euler polyhedra Newton Mandelbrot Max Planck Mental Arithmetic Pascal’s Triangle Pythagoras Quantity Theory of Money Stephen Hawking Fibonacci Faraday Theory of Relativity Wave / particle duality The 27 -card trick Polynomial equations Enigma Transformation in a plane Matrices 37

End of course questionnaire 1 = agree (13 responses / 18 students) 4 = disagree 38

End of course questionnaire 1 = agree (13 responses / 18 students) 4 = disagree 39

Using Google+ community as a multimedia platform • Links to the Quizlet vocabulary • Slides for the weekly presentations • Maths events linked to the calendar (Ada Lovelace, Mole day, National Cat Day, Isaac Newton’s birthday, V’tines Day, Pi Day – mathematicians honoured by Google Doodles) • • Links to Khan Academy for tricky concepts GIFs Jokes and Brain Teasers TED-Ed videos 40

Where do I get my ideas from? Twitter: follow @standupmaths, @numberphile, @tweetsauce, @pintofscience, @IFLScience, @scifri, @bengoldacre, @jimalkhalili, @Richard. Wiseman, @Prof. Brian. Cox, @SLSingh, @alexhern Facebook: like the pages of TED-Ed, IFLS, Khan Academy You. Tube: Numberphile channel, TED-Ed channel Google Doodles Ben Goldacre: Bad Science | Bad Stats I keep my eyes open and collect jokes, articles, videos, memes, … 41

What do my students think? Comments (n=13) I wish we had done more of … practice of math questions math practice (e. g. solving problems) puzzle things … because they proved I’m a genius 42

What do my students think? Comments I wish we had done less of … math vocabulary … because I knew it all already 43

What do my students think? Comments For next year’s Maths Link course, Hannah should … try to combine the [maths] lecture[s] with LINK [more] effectively get a Ph. D in maths not change at all 44

What do my students think? Comments To be most useful to IFP students, the Math Link teachers should … be more professional in math [= be more expert in maths] talk more about things related to the course Any other comments here: Maybe change the time of classes? Because Wednesday afternoons are supposed to be [for] doing sports generally? 45

End of course questionnaire 1 = agree (13 responses / 18 students) 4 = disagree 46

End of course questionnaire 1 = agree (13 responses / 18 students) 4 = disagree 47

End of course questionnaire 1 = agree (13 responses / 18 students) 4 = disagree 48

End of course questionnaire 1 = agree (13 responses / 18 students) 4 = disagree 49

Student Presentations suggested topics Famous mathematicians: Ada Lovelace, Grace Hopper, Babbage, Liu Hui, Boole, Al. Khwarizmi, Hawking, Euler, Euclid, Gauss, Pythagoras, Descartes, Turing, Leibniz, Ramanujan, Fibonacci, Fermat, Kepler, Mandelbrot, etc. FEYNMAN http: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Richard_Feynman PLANCK http: //www. britannica. com/EBchecked/topic/462888/Max-Planck HEISENBERG http: //science. howstuffworks. com/innovation/science-questions/quantum-suicide 2. htm 50

Useful Websites To learn more about Quizlet, watch ‘Lexical Leo’ @leoselivan’s IATEFL webinar from January 2015 Brain Teasers: http: //www. mathsisfun. com/puzzles/logic-puzzles-index. html http: //www. coolmath 4 kids. com/math_puzzles/Logic-bridgecrossing/index. html http: //www. coolmath 4 kids. com/math_puzzles/t 3 -plantingtrees. html http: //dave. uktv. co. uk/dara-o-briain-school-hard-sums/item/dara-o-briains-homework-puzzles/ http: //dave. uktv. co. uk/dara-o-briain-school-hard-sums/daras-picture-puzzles/ Useful websites: http: //www. bbc. co. uk/education/subjects/z 6 pfb 9 q https: //www. mathsisfun. com/ http: //www. s-cool. co. uk/gcse/maths http: //www. dummies. com/how-to/education-languages/math/Calculus. html http: //www. rapidtables. com/math/symbols/Basic_Math_Symbols. htm Useful videos: https: //www. khanacademy. org/math Khan Academy https: //www. youtube. com/user/bullcleo 1 Mathsispower 4 u https: //www. youtube. com/user/mathfolio Mathfolio https: //www. youtube. com/user/Raw. Maths Raw Maths https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=Hfl. ALiq. XJDo Patrick. JMT's Math Channel gifs and videos – useful for hypnotizing classes: http: //www. iflscience. com/brain/math-gifs-will-help-you-understand-these-concepts-better-your-teacher-ever-did

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