Getting the Buggers to Add Up 2nd Edition - Softcover

Ollerton, Mike

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826489141 ISBN 13: 9780826489142

Publisher: Continuum, 2006

Synopsis

The new edition of this extremely practical guide equips teachers with a huge number of strategies for improving pupils' mathematics and problem-solving skills in the classroom. Mike Ollerton shows how active learning, equipment based and surprise perspectives can bring mathematics alive. This edition includes a brand new chapter on 'strategies and principles in mathematics classrooms'. Brimming with useful tips and inspirational advice on every aspect of teaching mathematics, this book will prove essential reading for maths teachers everywhere.

About this title

About the Author

Mike Ollerton taught for 25 years in schools and 10 years in teacher training. He is now a freelance consultant.

Review

" ... This book is excellent value and of interest to the NQT as well as the experienced teacher. Get it, read it and put it into practice." TES

"I can't tell you how much I've enjoyed reading and thinking about this book. I would make staff read it, saving all our INSET budget. It resonates so well with our Teaching and Learning and Behaviour policies that staff, for various reasons, can't, won't, don't always apply." Catherine Sykes, Deputy Headteacher, Gawthorpe High School, Burnley.

It is well written, speaks directly and passionately to its intended audience and uses the author's real-life experiences of being a mathematics teacher...to support his beliefs about the nature of mathematics...I recommend the book to all practising mathematics teachers and their senior managers, to trainee teachers and their teacher, in whatever route.Anne Sinkinson, Journal of Education for Teaching

This book is rooted in experience within some pretty tough teaching environments and the author emphasises the importance of activities which will capture the attention and imagination of the modern teenager... I thoroughly recommend this book to anyone who teaches in a modern comprehensive school.Mark Thornber, The Mathematical Gazette

'Getting the Buggers to Add Up is a mixture of Mike's insights, experiences and opinions regarding the teaching and organising of mathematics in secondary schools. Ideas are fast-flowing for making mathematics teaching both fun and relevant for students. Areas such as teaching mathematics through real life...are backed up with practical ideas and examples that leave you itching to get back into the classroom and try them out. There is something in this book for everyone....Some well thought through philosophy and interesting political opinion make this a great read.' ~ Nat Parnell, The Teacher, November 2006 (Nat Parnell Teacher Magazine)

'Getting the Buggers to Add Up is a mixture of Mike's insights, experiences and opinions regarding the teaching and organising of mathematics in secondary schools. Ideas are fast-flowing for making mathematics teaching both fun and relevant for students. Areas such as teaching mathematics through real life...are backed up with practical ideas and examples that leave you itching to get back into the classroom and try them out. There is something in this book for everyone....Some well thought through philosophy and interesting political opinion make this a great read.' ~ Nat Parnell, The Teacher, November 2006 (Sanford Lakoff Teacher Magazine)

Edition details

• Publisher: Continuum
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0826489141
• ISBN 13: 9780826489142
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 264