Activities which could lend themselves to dialogic teaching
Remember in mathematics dialogic teaching can also be used to discover/challenge misconceptions, build new concepts where no current concept exists and aid pupils with problem solving. Where you plan this activity into your scheme of work will affect how it is being used. Think about the different conversations and thinking you might create by using the activities at different stages in the learning. Which would be
more powerful for pupil learning?
1. Estimate the number of pupils being taught mathematics at the moment in England.
2. Is zero a number?
3. The ‘pentomino’ problem how many different
arrangements are there with 5 squares.
Which has the smallest perimeter?
4. What is relationship between the lines on a graph?
5. Sorting decimals into order of size.
6. Plotting areas of inequalities in graphs.
7. What is the largest 3 digit number whose digits total is 13? Justify your answer.
8. Designing a survey.
9. Identifying and classifying the shapes of properties