We're off to Newcastle tomorrow for National Gathering and we can't wait to meet our new trainees in person! As well as a subject session with us, trainees have opted into sessions from @meimaths.bsky.social and @ncetm.bsky.social, and @amiemathematics.bsky.social will be there too! 🧮 #MathsToday
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We champion excellent mathematics education for all. Here, we share updates and resources for trainees, early career teachers and mentors involved with our programmes.
We were joined by over 100 of our ECTs this week at their final training days in London, Manchester and Nottingham. It was a brilliant opportunity to reflect on their progress, celebrate their successes and hear all about the ambassador projects they've worked on this year 🥳 #MathsToday
We're looking forward to seeing our Year 2s for their final training day of the programme next week! We will be looking at challenge without acceleration and digging into the new problem solving resources from @mathshorizons.bsky.social #MathsToday
It's just three weeks until we are headed to Newcastle with our incoming trainees for a big in-person finish to Summer Institute. We're excited that as well as their core/mathematics sessions, trainees can choose to attend sessions from @meimaths.bsky.social and @ncetm.bsky.social as part of Ed Fest
Today our incoming trainees are getting prepped for School Centred Learning next week, their first week in a school as part of their training. Massive good luck to all of them! We can't wait to hear how it goes! #MathsToday
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Today is our first subject seminar for full-time Summer Institute trainees. This is the holding slide if anyone fancies a go at some lovely problems #MathsToday
Welcome to full-time Summer Institute trainees, who start today! Part-time trainees start thinking about subject this week and one of the first things we'll be asking them is why they have decided to become a maths teacher. Maths teachers, what was your 'why' when you started teaching? #MathsToday
Maths teachers 👋 We'll be chatting to our incoming trainees next week about using Bluesky for professional growth. We'd love to know... Why are you here? What do you get out of it? And any tips for how to get value from it? #MathsToday
🧮 Calculator Crunch is nearly here Five days of free maths challenges for Year 6 (P7) & 7 (S1) 🏆 Win a class set of Casio fx‑83GT CW calculators or maths resources 📅 15–19 June 👉 buff.ly/bGYNFAU #CalculatorCrunch
We're excited to kick off our Summer Institute this week, where next year's trainees will be getting September-ready. We'll be meeting our part-time cohort tomorrow for a deep dive into building positive relationships with pupils, colleagues and parents/carers 🚀
Happy half-term 🎉 It's been a busy one for our trainees with assignment hand-ins and final QTS observations. Many of our ECTs are experiencing exam-season for the first time as Y11 teachers, as well as wrapping up their ambassador projects. We hope everyone gets a rest next week and enjoys some sun🌞
Y2s engaged superbly with their final online seminar last week. They looked at the problem with problem-solving with David Thomas from @axiommaths.bsky.social, were introduced to @meimaths.bsky.social by Sharon Tripconey & Carol Knights, and reflected on the culture of their mathematics classrooms 👏
In an assessment lots of pupils drew this is as the line y=x for this reflection, drawing a line diagonally from bottom left to top right. This normally works if you have 'square' axes but not in this case!
Our Y1s will be handing in their PGCE assignment tomorrow. They've been doing some practitioner research looking at a particular misconception and how to address it. Massive well-done to them on all their hard work! 👏 What interesting misconceptions have you seen recently? #MathsToday
We're hiring! 🎉 We're looking for a subject specialist to join our wonderful team of mathematics development leads. You'd be supporting trainees and ECTs on our programmes to develop their subject and pedagogical knowledge #MathsToday www.teachfirst.org.uk/working-teac...
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Only one in four pupils facing disadvantage achieve strong passes in English and maths GCSEs. Two in three of young people facing disadvantage then leave education without a Level 3 qualification (A‑levels or equivalent).
On Thursday, our ECTs will be able to join the final session in our three-part spotlight series on teaching Year 11 and preparing them for exams. This session is on 'The Final Countdown'. What do your final few weeks with Y11 look like? #MathsToday
Welcome to the summer term! A busy one for us as we support trainees to the QTS and PGCE finish lines, we have our last Online Seminars, and we get ready for our final in-person training day with our Y2s. We can't wait to see the ambassador projects they've been working on! #MathsToday
📊 New KS4 PD materials! Statistics and probability materials now available to support subject knowledge, planning and classroom practice. Explore core concepts including representations, analysis and probability. www.ncetm.org.uk/news/new-ks4... #Maths #EduSky #UKMathsChat
New KS4 Professional Development Materials: Statistics and probability
Explore the key ideas that underpin statistics and probability at Key Stage 4
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We loved our last training days of the year with Y1s last week. Trainees in London, Birmingham and Leeds looked at using rich tasks, different ways of scaffolding, and calculator use, as well as diving into the topic of iteration. They also shared their advice for next year's cohort #MathsToday
We'd love to hear how you're celebrating pi day! Pi recitals? Free-hand circle drawing? Something else? Think Maths have some nice arty ideas as well as a competition your students can enter think-maths.co.uk/pi-comp/ #MathsToday
We're looking forward to tomorrow, when Y2s will join us online for a deep dive into dyscalculia with Magdalene Lake followed by a look at what makes a great mathematics task #MathsToday
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We're looking forward to seeing our trainees online on Wednesday. They'll be engaging with some academic reading, have a choice of sessions honing in on different parts of their PGCE assignment, and finishing with an exciting session from Jayne Webster about representations in maths #MathsToday
The last one of these was excellent. Well-worth signing up for #MathsToday
📣Calling all maths teachers! 📣 Want to discuss your experiences and challenges with colleagues? Join Liz and Charlie in our next webinar as we continue our discussion on low threshold high ceiling tasks. March 10th/11th 4pm GMT Book here: nrich.maths.org/events-teachers-and-students
Well done to our Y1s who submitted a sample of their literature review yesterday for feedback, another milestone of the PGCE year done ✅ This half-term, many of them will be starting their practitioner research in their classrooms and we're excited to hear how it goes! #MathsToday
We know our trainees will be busy writing up a sample of their literature reviews for their PGCE assignment over the next week. Remember that @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social have loads of support available on My Hallam to help with academic writing and referencing #MathsToday
Missed our recent webinars on 'Low Threshold High Ceiling'? Catch up with our recordings for both Primary and Secondary teachers on our guidance page here: nrich.maths.org/articles/low...
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Pleased to share the blog I wrote for Oracy Cambridge. oracycambridge.org/oracy-in-mat... I mention the @ncetm.bsky.social ‘s Oracy in mathematics framework. If you’re developing Oracy in the maths classrooms in your school, get in touch.
Oracy in Mathematics: More or less talk? - ORACY CAMBRIDGE
by Jane Hawkins, Associate Deputy Director for Secondary, NCETM This blog sets out to suggest that oracy in maths isn’t ‘really just about talk’, and that it certainly isn’t just…
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