{"id":938,"date":"2015-10-14T11:52:55","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T10:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mshe\/?p=938"},"modified":"2015-10-14T11:52:55","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T10:52:55","slug":"successful-seminar-on-shanghai-maths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mshe\/successful-seminar-on-shanghai-maths\/","title":{"rendered":"Successful seminar on Shanghai maths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mshe\/files\/2015\/09\/li.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-890\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mshe\/files\/2015\/09\/li.jpg\" alt=\"li\" width=\"160\" height=\"186\" \/><\/a>Southampton Education School were pleased to welcome visitors from China on Tuesday 6th October 2015. Professor Shiqi Li from East China Normal University gave a seminar on \u201cThe Shanghai maths approach: An analysis based on a geometry lesson\u201d. The seminar proved popular, with a good number of local teachers and research students attending. Professor Li illustrated his talk with some stills from a video of a geometry lesson and was able to share some interesting points from his first hand experience of secondary school teaching in China. Questions at the end of the seminar drew out some of the key differences in both school practice and culture between China and England. Professor Li was clear about the importance of careful, deliberately designed practice through variation provided using contexts and hierarchy. He helpfully suggested that instead of \u201cpractices makes perfect\u201d we should be using \u201cfluency makes skilled\u201d and that \u201ccreativity is based on well-mastered foundations\u201d because \u201cfoundations without creativity is blind\u201d and \u201ccreativity without foundation is empty\u201d. The \u201csink or swim\u201d analogy he shared ( credited to Professor Lynn Paine) where American students are taken to the sea and pushed in whereas Chinese stents are taken to the pool and carefully guided, also provided those present with food for thought. One centre member created the following storify:<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/storify.com\/cbokhove\/mshe-seminar-on-shanghai-maths<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southampton Education School were pleased to welcome visitors from China on Tuesday 6th October 2015. Professor Shiqi Li from East China Normal University gave a seminar on \u201cThe Shanghai maths approach: An analysis based on a geometry lesson\u201d. The seminar proved popular, with a good number of local teachers and research students attending. Professor Li [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93214,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mshe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mshe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mshe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mshe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mshe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=938"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mshe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":941,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mshe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions\/941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mshe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mshe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/mshe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}