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What writing were students asked to do?

We were concerned about how PLAS were supported to express mathematics on paper. We report here the range of writing tasks teachers offered - we are not saying these are all good practice, but constructing a picture of all the writing tasks PLAS have to do to participate fully in mathematics lessons:

Clerical tasks
Title, date, working out
Copy examples, methods, definitions, objectives or questions

Non-verbal recording
Read and mark off numbers quickly for a Bingo game
Enter numbers into Excel
Draw diagrams
Construct geometrical objects
Continue spatial patterns

Shared recording and presenting
Scribe for group
Make poster with group
Making p/pt of their research

Relief from writing demands
TA scribes for students

Write in a given way
Record outcomes on prepared grids
Using writing frame
Enter answers onto printed sheet
Calculation methods

Independent recording
Recording results in own way
Write their answers or ideas on mini-whiteboards
Rough work
Work out what they need to write for their own purposes
Develop plans and record data
Answers questions from textbook
Need to record because you'll have to complete task next lesson
Choose own form of representation: numbers, graphs, diagrams
Write down own example