Category 2 Bronze award
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Title :
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Subject :Maths
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Authors :Annette Hessen Bjerke, Tom-Erik Kroknes, Olaug Ellen Lona Svingen
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Publisher :
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Country :Norway
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Evaluation :
- Novel approach of presenting mathematical problems (comic)
- Discussion and group work on mathematical problems encourage collaboration
- Excellent differentiation throughout
- Online fun games are motivating for the learners
- Interesting, non-realistic but enchanting illustrations
- Each textbook displays five chapters on the first spreads well organized with colours as symbols; this gives the material a good structure.
- Each chapter opens with clear learning goals explicitly presented to the learners, important terms to be learned, a special exercise as a start and a motivating cartoon.
- Each topic (inside the chapters) starts with clear examples that serve as a background for the learners' exercises. A bat serves as the learners' good adviser and gives useful hints.
- Multicultural issues are presented through illustrations and names.
- The illustrations are funny and imaginative, and therefore motivating for the learners.
- The learning material takes differentiation into consideration as both textbooks and workbooks have tasks for all learners at three levels ('spor' 1, 2 and 3, organized by colours).
- The tasks are clearly marked for individual and cooperative work.
- The teachers' guide has a good introduction to the pedagogical ideas in the material, and many extra tasks to each chapter and each topic within the chapters.
- Each chapter has a helpful short summary.
- The cover page of 6B conveys the essence of mathematics, i.e. abstraction.
- The tasks and exercises presented in the textbooks are relevant to world of the learners in terms of content as well as difficulty
- The teacher's handbooks are well planned guides for inexperienced teachers
- The materials present a rich mathematical world to the learners with age relevant illustrations.
- Many possibilities for discussion and work in smaller groups are provided - conversations between the learners as well as different levels of problem-solving are offered throughout the material.