St Mungo's Academy
St Mungo’s Academy was founded in the nineteenth century. Situated in the east end of Glasgow, it has around 780 pupils. St Mungo’s has won an International Education Excellence award.
Pauline Logan, former maths coordinator for St Mungo’s Learning Community, discusses the problem solving programme
The St Mungo’s Learning Community consists of St Mungo’s Academy and five associated primary schools. Among the priorities for Pauline Logan as the maths coordinator were problem solving and primary-secondary transition. A working group of Pauline and five teachers was set up, which developed a progressive problem solving programme and produced a very detailed package of problem solving material.
At St Mungo’s Academy, there is a structured programme for problem solving, which continues the strategies pupils will have learnt at primary school using different resources, for example material from the BEAM organisation, Mathematics Cubed, What’s Next? and the Maths in Action problem solving folder.
Within the package devised by the Learning Community are very detailed lesson plans, reflecting the importance of the structure of problem solving lessons. These begin with a warm-up and then follow the starting, doing, reporting and evaluating stages and end with a plenary session.
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| Description | Pauline Logan describes the development of a progressive problem solving programme covering primary and secondary school |
| Duration | 2 minutes 30 seconds |
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