Using visualisation in maths teaching

Course learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

• demonstrate an engagement in a number of activities that involve visualisation and learning from personal experiences what it means
• understand the views of a well-known mathematics educator talking about visualisation and find out how personal views compare with those of some other secondary-school mathematics teachers
• identify some ways that visualising could be incorporated into a classroom and consider a number of resources that might be useful.