Algebra tiles - an introduction and so much more

This webinar was on Algebra Tiles - these have changed my teaching and are ridiculously effective in helping students overcome misconceptions with algebra, and support conceptual understanding

The video will consist of an introduction to their use, as well as their use with brackets, factorising and collecting like terms.

Given its content, I would suggest this is particularly useful for KS3-4 teachers, but a number of KS2 teachers told me it was useful to them also

References

Carbonneau, K. J., Marley, S. C., & Selig, J. P. (2013). A meta-analysis of the efficacy of teaching mathematics with concrete manipulatives. Journal of Educational Psychology, 105(2), 380. doi: 10.1037/a0031084

Nunes, T., & Bryant, P. (2009). Paper 3: Understanding rational numbers and intensive quantities. In T.

Streefland, L. (1991). Fractions in realistic mathematics education: A paradigm of developmental research (Vol. 8). Dordrecht. The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers

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Thank you for this, tom. I really enjoyed your presentation in #MathConf23