Author and early years teacher Sue Cowley shares why she loves Numicon Firm Foundations a comprehensive programme of maths activities for EYFS.
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We summarise Dr Helen J Williams’ webinar on key priorities for early maths and the predictors of later achievement, part of our Maths Adventure series.
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This blog summarises David Lyttle’s webinar on how manipulatives improve mathematical communication, part of our Maths Adventure series.
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Bernie Westacott explores some of the key number and place value ready-to-progress criteria set out in the new DfE non-statutory guidance for Primary Maths.
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Provided nothing changes between now and then, we are all due back into school in September. How that will look practically will vary from school to school as we all figure out how to make routines that work in our unique settings given the constraints imposed upon us for public health. Jemma Sherwood shares a […]
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In April 2020, Barry Carpenter , the UK’s first Professor in Mental Health in Education, at Oxford Brookes University, called for a recovery curriculum post Covid -19. This gained momentum as schools started to open up more widely in the summer term and reported their key focus to be re- establishing relationships, routines and wellbeing before turning […]
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My name is Hayley, and I’ve been an Early Years educator for 11 years. I also became a teacher 2 years ago. I run the @allaboutearlyyears account on Instagram, where I share early educational activities. I am continually amazed by the range of mathematical skills children are expected to learn so early in their lives. However, […]
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The draft Curriculum for Wales has now been released, and as educators we finally have the What Matters statements for the new Areas of Learning Experience (AOLE). The Mathematics and Numeracy AOLE is segregated into four subsections of mathematics: The number system is used to represent and compare relationships between numbers and quantitiesAlgebra uses symbol systems to express the structures of relationships between […]
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Written by Louise Pennington, Professional Development Leader for maths at Oxford University Press. The Multiplication Tables Check The Standards Testing Agency (STA) published the Multiplication Tables Check Assessment Framework in November last year. This document contains some key information about the Year 4 testing that will be statutory from June 2020: Voluntary pilot 10-28th June 2019 3 week window in June 2020 […]
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Rebecca Royle Barnsbury Primary School and Nursery, Surrey Our Journey We are a two-form entry primary in Woking and the Numicon approach to teaching and learning maths has become an integral part of our school’s ethos. At Barnsbury Primary School and Nursery the Numicon approach to teaching and learning in mathematics is embedded from the start […]
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