All I’e done today is work. Believe it or not, I feel a little behind in things already after only two weeks of teaching. Things get a little more hectic this week as I have a student teacher working alongside me in their induction to the school – she will be teaching on and off […]
I spent the night creating Year 1 maths assessments – an utterly boring and generally thankless task. It’s something that I really need to do and yet never actually want to. Over the coming evenings I shall be doing the same for years 2 to 6. So don’t expect these blogs to be anything but […]
After Study Block 1, taught session 2, we were given a reading to look through and digest. We were given Chapter 5 (pp. 79-104) from “Children’s mathematics 4-15: learning from errors and misconceptions” by Julie Ryan, Julian Williams. (McGraw-Hill International, 2007) The mistakes children make in mathematics are usually not just ‘mistakes’ – they are […]
Having just finished my work with a bunch of Year 3 – who are far fussier than I remember – I feel quite pleased. They were able to build and complete the secret construction quicker and more accurately than I first hoped, they used a good range of language – next to, on top of, […]
The NCETM has a series of tools for analysing how confident you feel about various areas of mathematics. Part of the MaST programme requires me to complete each area over time. I also have to complete the sections for a range of Key Stages – 1, 2 and 3 – to demonstrate a broad knowledge […]