#TE-02-21 World Class Maths: Asian Teaching Methods
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- Course level: All Levels
About Course
Macmillan EducationDescription
Discover how to use world-class maths teaching methods in your own lessons
Get an introduction to Asian maths teaching methods for primary education, with this course from Macmillan Education and University of Southampton.
On this course, you’ll find out about the key features of Asian maths teaching methods and what makes them so successful.
You’ll understand teaching principles from Singapore and Shanghai, and apply these to your own practice.
You’ll evaluate the performance of maths education in your own country, and compare this with Asian countries.
Finally, you’ll learn why teacher professional development is so important in Asian education systems.
What topics will you cover?
- Exploring the international success of Asian education systems in primary mathematics teaching
- The key features of Asian maths pedagogies
- Understanding established principles from Singapore teaching methods, including Concrete-Pictorial-Abstract and the Model Method
- Understanding established principles from Shanghai: Two Basics and Teaching with Variation
- The role of professional development in Asian primary maths education
Who will you learn with?
Lianghuo Fan is Distinguished Professor and Director of Asian Centre for Maths Educ. at East China Normal University, Shanghai. Prior to this he was Professor in Education at Southampton Educ. School.
I am an Associate Professor in Mathematics Education within Southampton Education School. I specialise in international comparative research and the use of technology.
John Schulz is the Director of the SEds Video & Digital Media Studio and a Principal Teaching Fellow within Southampton Education School. John teaches on a wide variety of MSc and Doctoral programmes.
Marcus Grace is Professor of Science Education at the University of Southampton, UK. He has considerable experience in STEM education and training around the world.
Who developed the course?
Macmillan Education is part of the Springer Nature group that includes nature, Scientific American and Springer, prestigious brands that have published ground-breaking research for over 150 years.
What Will I Learn?
- Explore the performance of your national maths education compared with those from Asian countries
- Summarise the key features of Asian maths teaching methods
- Evaluate several prominent teaching methods from Asian education systems
- Reflect on the role of professional development in maths teaching
Topics for this course
Introduction
The Big Question: why do Asian maths teaching methods work so well?
Introductions00:02:39
Topics in the course00:01:40
International context
Engaging with the TIMSS data
Introducing Asian maths pedagogy
I have to say that this is a very good course, the current primary school students are very dislike to learn mathematics, this course let me learn how to use the world-class mathematics teaching method in my own curriculum, more interesting to attract the children to learn mathematics.
This course emphasizes the key features of Asian mathematics teaching and gives us an understanding of the established principles of Singapore's teaching methods, including representation-abstraction and modeling, which I think can be applied to existing teaching methods to change the way children learn and think.
In the past, I have always been fond of foreign teaching methods. In this course, I learned the teaching principles of Singapore and Shanghai and applied them to my own teaching practice. It's a great class.
In this course I was introduced to the main features of Asian mathematics teaching methods and why they are so successful. Let me better reflect on their own way of mathematics teaching. It gave me a lot of inspiration. Thank you.
Material Includes
- Official Certificate
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Target Audience
- This course is designed for primary school teachers, school administrators and education policy makers, but may also be of interest to parents with children at primary school.