New report out this week on maths teaching in reception in England www.nottingham.ac.uk/Observatory/...

New publication now live 📢 Written by the Early Childhood Maths Group, this resource explores how to nurture early mathematical thinking through play and developmentally-appropriate practice. 📄 Download: www.early-years-reviews.com/_files/ugd/c... Please share. #EYFS #PlayMatters #EarlyMaths

This 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 Hard copies available from @earlyed-uk.bsky.social Online also available *free* from the ECMG website: earlymaths.org

Any Y4 or Y5 teachers in Nottingham or surrounding areas? We have a couple of places on this Lesson Study project starting next week.

Part 2 of our Nursery World series about spatial reasoning in the early years www.nurseryworld.co.uk/content/feat...

Spatial reasoning part 2: Developing 'body sense' - Nursery World

How do children develop embodied learning? By Prof Emily Farran, Dr Catherine Gripton and Dr Andrea Lancaster

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Our new piece on these @atmmathematics.bsky.social KS1 assessment tasks in @tesmagazine.bsky.social @accomplishedu.bsky.social www.tes.com/magazine/tea...

Why games beat tests for primary maths assessment

The end of the Sats requirement in key stage 1 opens up a world of opportunities for more engaging ways to assess pupils, say these experts

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Part 1 of a series of 4 articles in Nursery World about spatial reasoning

Emily Farran@ekfarran.bsky.social · 2y ago

With Catherine Gripton, Sue Gifford, Alison Borthwick and Andrea Lancaster, I've been working with Nursery World on a series of four articles on spatial reasoning. The first one is now out: www.nurseryworld.co.uk/content/feat... For more on spatial reasoning: www.surrey.ac.uk/spatial-reas...

The Social Justice special issue of ATM’s Mathematics Teaching Journal is now available online and has been made ‘open access’ to all, so please do share with colleagues. It includes articles by Alf Coles, Pete Wright, Rose Griffiths and many more. atm.org.uk/write/MediaU...

A quick read on early years maths and story books: www.booktrust.org.uk/news-and-fea...

Using picture books to support mathematical development

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The UK Early Childhood Mathematics Group do not have a Bluesky account as yet … it’s coming it’s coming! But please do take a look at our website with lots of **freely available** guidance& resources for those of us working with birth-8 yr olds: earlymaths.org And please add your suggestions below 👇🏼

ECMG

Early Childhood Maths Group

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Really looking forward to our FREE online webinar focussed on analysing a research lesson on fractions in Y5/6 from a Collaborative Lesson Research cycle. We will be joined by Mike Askew, Janine Blinko, Kate Eames, Stefanie Burke and Andy Tynemouth. Still time to book tinyurl.com/2xajwc8a

www.jmc.org.uk/2024/11/16/a...

First Post! Join us at this event in person in Oxford or online. Monday 25th November. Details at: www.education.ox.ac.uk/event/mathem... I’ll be drawing on our www.masteringmaths.org research to consider the mathematically disadvantaged.

If you are interested in maths teaching and ethics, @darrenmacey.bsky.social and I are giving a talk this Wednesday on the topic, based on our book chapter, and we’d love to have you! talmo.uk/events.html

**NOW LIVE and FREE** The Early Childhood Mathematics Group’s guidance on teaching maths in a mixed year group classroom/setting: 🧵 mixed-age.earlymaths.org 1/

Maths Ed people on here that I have found… go.bsky.app/Ngpznzk

Excited (now I’ve actually made the decision to slink over Here) to have some convos about mathematics, earlyyears and even some politics. Thank you for the follows 👋 The ECMG earlymaths.org have their bi-termly meeting tomorrow where we launch our **NEW** guidance for teaching mixed year groups

ECMG

Early Childhood Maths Group

earlymaths.org

Thanks @berniewestacott.bsky.social

Bernie Westacott@berniewestacott.bsky.social · 2y ago

From Cath Gripton 'New article out today: We argue that changes to the structure of the edu system in Eng has made it difficult for govt to use educational resources to drive change in primary maths teaching' #Edusky bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

AND **HERE IT IS!** mixed-age.earlymaths.org