Getting the Buggers to Add Up

Buggers

by Mike Ollerton

'I can't tell you how much I've enjoyed reading and thinking about this book. I would make staff read it, saving all our INSET budget. It resonates so well with our Teaching and Learning and Behaviour policies that staff, for various reasons, can't, won't, don't always apply... How can anyone resist a book where the words 'heuristic' and 'oodles' occur in adjacent sentences?... It is very readable and should have a big impact on Maths teaching.' Catherine Sykes, Deputy Headteacher, Gawthorpe High School, Burnley. Following the outrageously successful formula of Getting the Buggers to Behave, this extremely practical guide equips teachers with a huge number of strategies for improving pupils' numeracy skills in the classroom. Mike Ollerton shows how active learning, equipment based and surprise perspectives can bring mathematics alive. Brimming with useful tips and inspirational advice on every aspect of mathematics teaching, this book will prove essential reading for mathematics teachers everywhere.

Genres: Nonfiction

192 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 2004

Reviews

[Syed Ali Hussain Bukhari · Rating 4 out of 5]

I found this book mostly helpful for all Mathematics' teachers. It provides us with amazing ideas to teach effectively as well as helps a teacher understand his students ability or learning level. Though, I cannot make use of all ideas described because of lack of Mathematical equipment on local level, here in Pakistan. The last chapter inspired me so much as it says that without any mental ability differences, we must teach our students without grouping. I appreciate the author : Mike Ollerton's effort for sharing his Mathematics' teaching experiences and ideas.

[Michael Holloway · Rating 3 out of 5]

A good collection of ideas but tends towards a polemical nature when discussing the more unusual ideas.