Algeburble - Encounters with early Algebra, with Dietmar Küchemann
Channel: AssocTeachersMaths
Date: 2021-05-24

Algeburble - Encounters with Early Algebra Book and PDF Slides, by Dietmar Küchemann  (Book only also available as a PDF download) www.atm.org.uk

A collection of twenty sets of five related tasks, to help pupils engage with early or pre-algebra.

Algeburble is a prequel to the acclaimed book Algebradabra and has the same format. Algeburble is aimed at pupils aged 11 years and below (Key Stage 2 or upper primary school in England), though many of the tasks will also challenge older pupils.

It contains 100 tasks, together with a commentary. All the tasks are flexible and can readily form the basis of a lesson or sequence of lessons, or they can simply be used to prompt fresh thinking at the start of a lesson.  Algeburble gives teachers and other maths educators the opportunity to consider what an early algebra curriculum might look like, and how, for example, one might help pupils make the shift from computational to structural thinking through the use of representations such as tables, number lines and graphs, and, perhaps, the use of letters for numbers.

This book has an accompanying set of PDF Slides for use in the classroom.   KS2