Going Deeper with Primary Maths: Elegant solutions and making connections
Overview
In this half-day interactive session, you will explore how to promote deep and sustained understanding of mathematics with your children. You will engage with maths suitable for the age of pupils you teach and consider strategies to develop pupils’ mathematical talk and reasoning.
Aims
To consider what constitutes working at greater depth looks like in:
- Lesson and task design
- Independent practice
- Children’s work
- Classroom talk
Content
We will look at how tasks and lessons can be designed to encourage children to make connections between key mathematical concepts and to think about different and efficient ways to solve a problem.
There will be the opportunity to consider the role of questioning and also to look at different questions and tasks, considering what it means to solve them with ‘greater depth’.
We will consider the way we want to develop mathematical thinking and support children to make links between key areas of the curriculum so that they can work flexibly, applying strategies based on connected mathematical concepts.
Key Details
| Audience | Teachers |
| Curriculum Focus | Primary |
| Mathematical Focus | Leadership |
| Event Format | In-person |
| Online Sessions | 1 |
| Fee | POA |
Who will benefit from attending?
This course is designed for anyone wishing to develop their approaches with Year 6 children to ensure that they are able to apply their understanding to make sense of problems and use elegant solutions. You may be:
- teaching Year 6
- a teacher new to Year 6 or about to teach Year 6 for the first time
- an experienced teacher looking to develop classroom approaches
- leading maths and looking to increase the number of children achieving higher scores in maths
- a maths subject leader
Benefits for you:
- Develop a deeper understanding of the connections between different areas of the curriculum
- Strategies for planning and teaching that encourage mathematical thinking at greater depth
- Understanding of what ‘greater depth’ looks like in the way students work
Benefits for your school:
- A more coherent approach to the teaching of maths
- More students demonstrating a greater depth of understanding of the curriculum
Benefits for your students:
- More opportunities to access work at greater depth
- More efficient approaches to solving problems
- Increased confidence in problem solving
Choose an event
Listed here are the upcoming dates and times this course will run.
To register interest in this professional development opportunity please contact the course leader, Alison Hopper.