#edchatIE celebrates Mathsweek 2018

#mathsweek   #IUseMaths

October 15th, 8.30-9.30pm (Irish time)

On Monday 15th October (2018) from 8.30-9.30pm, Irish educators and all those interested in Irish education will get the chance to be part of an online discussion around the subject of Maths. It will be a focused discussion, in which we will aim to cover four questions/topics in the one night, rather than the usual single topic. The four topics for the Monday night, 15th October #edchatie special discussion celebrating #Mathsweek with @Mathsweek are:

• Q1: How do you use #Mathsweek to introduce new ideas to the classroom or to try something new?
• Q2: How can #Mathsweek facilitate cross-curricular approach to maths in primary and secondary schools?
• Q3: Lessons that can help with developing problem solving techniques?
• Q4: Huge shortage of maths teachers. Why is there no one to take up higher level leaving cert maths positions?

During the #edchatie hour: 

In order to keep the conversation flowing as much as possible during the #edchatie hour, here's how the discussion on Monday will run: 

• At 8.30pm, we'll hold the usual introductions and then quickly move on to posting Q.1 for discussion.
• When discussing Q.1, please make sure that you include the hashtags #edchatie and #mathsweek as well as the text "Q.1" in your tweets.
• After 15 minutes and because we have four questions/topics to discuss, we'll move on to Q.2.
• Again, when discussing Q.2. please make sure to include the hashtag #edchatie and #Mathsweek as well as the text "Q.2" in your tweets at this time.
• By 9pm we'll move on to Q.3 and then we'll finish off, from 9.15pm, with Q.4 for the final 15 minutes of the discussion.

Remember -> All tweets should contain the hashtags #edchatie #mathsweek and #IUseMaths as well as the relevant question number in order to be collated into the transcript of the discussion, which will be published online the next day.

Looking forward to seeing you online.