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Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Featured Early
Years Foundation Stage; US Kindergarten Featured UK Key Stage
1&2; US Grades 1-4 Featured UK Key Stage 3-5; US Grades 5-12
Featured UK Key Stage 1, US Grade 1 & 2 Featured UK Key Stage 2;
US Grade 3 & 4 Featured UK Key Stages 3 & 4; US Grade 5-10
Featured UK Key Stage 4 & 5; US Grade 11 & 12 What's to Notice?
Stage: 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 Article by Lynne McClure The theme for
is about 'actions on objects'. All of the activities we have
devised involve some kind of noticing, and several of them
involve new interactivities which we think promote lots of
opportunities to notice. John Mason, our guest editor this
month, has written a lot about the 'discipline of noticing' and
how important it is to the understanding of the deeper
structures of mathematics. So what does this mean and how can we
help our students get better at it - how can we 'educate
awareness'? Rather than think abstractly about t