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Butterfly effects when designing and adapting tasks with Colin Foster

In this webinar, we’ll look at some small tweaks that can be made to standard mathematics tasks that make them considerably more demanding. These ‘butterfly effects’ – a big difference from a small change – will sometimes take us into new content, but mainly they provide opportunities for learners to think more deeply about existing content, by ‘making the familiar strange’. Please come prepared to do some mathematics in breakout rooms and discuss your experiences.

MA President, Dr Colin Foster, is a Reader in Mathematics Education in the Department of Mathematics Education at Loughborough University and President of the Mathematical Association. His research interests focus on the learning and teaching of mathematics in ways that support students’ conceptual understanding. He is currently leading the design of a fully-resourced, research-informed school mathematics curriculum through the Loughborough University Mathematics Education Network.

Email c.foster@lboro.ac.uk | Website www.foster77.co.uk | Blog blog.foster77.co.uk/ | Twitter @colinfoster77

Hooked on Mathematics: developing a scheme of work for Key Stage 2

Dr Jenni Back

To launch her book “Hooked on Mathematics”, Jenni hosted webinar where she described the research behind it and the substance of her work with St Martin’s CE Primary School in Brighton.

The project, sustained for over 6 years and has involved collaborating with the staff and children at the school to develop a programme of study that is both enjoyable for teachers and children and delivers in terms of assessment outcomes.

The work draws on the quality free resources that are available from NRICH and CIMT (Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching) and adopts a structure for teaching combining problem solving with direct teaching so that the problem context becomes the ‘hook’ for motivating the children to tackle the skills and procedures required to solve it.

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Please note the link in the presentation to the Vocabulary Booklet has since been taken down. You can download it below.

Download the Numeracy Vocabulary Booklet here or it can be found on the STEM website

Preparing for September - For newly qualified and recently qualified teachers

Hosted by Jo Morgan (MA Chair of publicity and media, author of 'A Compendium of Mathematical Methods' and writer of the blog resourceaholic.com), this webinar aims to support you in preparing for the new academic year.

In it we will discuss the particular challenges faced by teachers in 2020 – ‘pandemic pedagogy’ – including practical tips for teachers having to travel between classrooms.

This webinar will also feature lots of general advice for those new to maths teaching, including where to find great resources, how to get organised, smart lesson planning processes, and much more.

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