What you can learn in this unit

  • How to use the ‘compare and contrast’ technique to help students notice mathematical properties.
  • Some effective ways to teach the difference between volume and capacity.
  • Some teaching ideas to promote understanding measurement of three-dimensional objects.

This unit links to the teaching requirements of the NCF (2005) and NCFTE (2009) as in Resource 1 and will help you to meet those requirements.

What this unit is about

1 ‘Compare and contrast’ tasks to learn about mathematical properties