The first episode of a new season of content packed podcasts to help teachers explore and integrate the new Mathematics Curriculum. Lisa Walsh interviews maths researcher and curriculum coordinator, Dr Thérèse Dooley.
“Language is the main tool that promotes thinking, develops reasoning and supports cultural activities like reading and writing and indeed mathematics” (Vygotsky)
This episode opens with an in depth reflection on ‘Maths Talk’ and considers who should be leading that conversation and how to create a classroom culture around sharing ‘ways of thinking’ and not just finding answers.
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Creativity and play in Maths gets a deep dive, exploring what we might call ‘possibility thinking’ and recognising that play is often about process, not product.
The rest of the episode covers a range of other topics, including:
- Open and closed tasks – and how to ‘open’ a closed task
- Revoicing and recasting ideas
- The use and future of Calculators – inc. the ‘broken button’ idea and emerging AI tools
- Mathematics vs Numeracy – making sense in the everyday world, logic and reasoning
- Research Reports & the New Primary Maths Curriculum
- Meta Practices
- Learning Pathways & trajectories
- Hopes for the new curriculum
- Formative Assessment inc. use of self assessment rubrics & feedback
- Mathematical Mindsets
- Lesson Study
- Working with Pre-service teachers
- Differentiation and use of simple resources
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