Dr Sean Chorney is a Bristol Next Generation Visiting Researcher. He is visiting from Simon Fraser University, Canada, and working with Dr Tracy Helliwell on the project Mathematics Teacher Educators distributed expertise: Transition from secondary school mathematics teaching to preservice teacher education.
TouchTimes (TT) is a novel touchscreen application designed to provide a visual and kinesthetic way for children to learn about multiplicative relationships. It is an application Sean and his colleagues have used with grades 2 to grade 5s to introduce and reconceptualize multiplication. In this talk Sean shares how TT works and how it supports multiplicative thinking that doesn’t rely on repeated addition. Sean will share some of the activities that he and his colleagues have introduced to children.
For maths education PGTs and PGRs.