Posters

=Posters to use in your classroom= Feel welcome to download and adapt for your context.

Not a poster, but a good way to bring different strategies to the attention of students when reflecting on a mathematical task or activity. Buy a cheap toolbox from a hardware shop, or download the net to make your own. Enlarge on a photocopier to A3 size, laminate and construct.
 * Mathematical Toolbox**

George Polya developed a 4 step approach to solving mathematical problems. This has evolved into a 'strategy board' that can be used to focus learners' attention on the range of possible strategies they might use. One teacher suggested having the poster as a list, and inviting students to place pegs on strategies they've used.
 * Strategy Board**

Erin Sells, a teacher from Ernabella A__n__angu School in the Pitjantjatjara Lands in South Australia has adapted the wording of the strategies to suit her context. She has taken photos of kids working on problems using a particular strategy, and included the photo as a visual prompt to cue the students in to using the strategy.

Another variation is to use post-it notes with the names of problems, and invite students to tag mathematical problems they've engaged with over the last few days or weeks with strategies they've used to solve them.

Below is a version of the Strategy Board for students to glue into their Mathematics workbook, to use as an 'enabling prompt' when they are reflecting on some of the decisions they made in solving a problem.



This version of the Strategy Board can be used with Post-it notes. Students are invited to tag all the different strategies they've used to solve the suite of problems they have worked on.

Invite students to reflect on the range of strategies they might have used for a particular problem using pegs next to the strategy.

The posters below cam be used or adapted for you classroom. Once kids know the questioning structure, a teacher can 'codify' the cognitive process and move it to the non-verbal. Tapping a poster will act as a prompt for students to engage in that process. Print out, and have on hand for students to reflect on their thinking. These can be used to glue into students' workbooks or poster work, or collated as a class to glue onto a collective poster. A variation on this approach is to insert photos of students' mathematical activity into ComicLife, and use the think and speech bubbles inside ComicLife. These artefacts can then be printed out or posted on the web.
 * Metacognition**
 * Posters** - 6 pages: [[file:Metacognition Posters.doc]]
 * Post-its Notes** - 8 to page:[[file:Think & Speech Bubbles.doc]]