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Training Day 5
Day 5 was the final training day of the first year of the trial, introducing ‘Seeing it Differently’, the first Year 8 number module. We watched video of an experienced RME teacher and her class coming to grips with reverse percentage and discussed how to develop classroom cultures which enable students to think aloud and […]
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Training Day 4
Training Day 4 was busy with teachers reporting back on ‘Filling the Whole’ and finding out about the last two Year 7 modules – ‘Knowing the Unknown’ and ‘Sorting it Out’. Many interesting issues were raised in our training days across the country: we discussed how to support students in mathematising contexts, how to build […]
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Training Day 3
Good to see our teachers back again, reporting on ‘Fitting it In’. This time we worked on Mathematical Landscapes, understanding how the modules aim to build mathematical understanding from contexts through informal models, pre-formal models and finally formal models. The links between them ensure that there is always a route back to context and the […]
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Training Day 2
We were pleased to see our teachers back for Training Day 2 in the first half of December. This time, we prepared for ‘Fitting It In’ – all about area. These are just some of the multiple strategies that came up in Manchester in the demo lesson. Read more about why multiple strategies matter here […]
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Our first training day!
Our first set of training days for the Key Stage 3 trial took place in October, in Manchester, Nottingham, Birmingham, York, London and Southampton. After several months of setting up the trial, we were delighted to meet 120 teachers from our intervention schools. We also welcomed teachers from 8 special schools across the country, who […]