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If the guiding objective of the curriculum is to teach students to work like a mathematician, then recording and publishing are appropriate because that's what mathematicians do. However, what to record, how often to record and in what form to record are management issues faced by all teachers using tasks. Each aspect can take several forms:
- Recording might be on a teacher-designed sheet or in a journal/diary/drafting book.
- Publishing might be as a display, a video, a PowerPoint presentation, a paragraph in the the school newsletter, a report to the local paper, and so on.
Teachers cannot assume students understand what it means to publish in mathematics. To do so is a genre of 'writing' and it has to be modelled. You must teach what it means to prepare a maths report and students must see models of what you expect in a 'good' report.
Using the lesson below Learning to Write a Maths Report will help your students learn the publishing process. It is based around Task 45, Eric The Sheep, and includes a student PowerPoint presentation. However, you can adapt the lesson to be used with the whole class investigation life of any task.
Other examples from various classrooms suggest several ways recording and publishing can be developed.
Additional contributions from your classroom are welcome.
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Task 65, Shape Algebra
Task 11, Lining Up
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