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Independent thinking, critical analysis, global ethics: what thinkers of the future need

March 23, 2021March 23, 2021Hannah Ball

What should education outside planet Earth look like? One of my students’ favourite thought is to imagine that we have found a new planet to inhabit and that they have been put in charge of the extra-terrestrial education system. What will they bring to the future home of humanity? What classes would they mandate? What […]

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The role of reasoning in supporting problem solving and fluency

November 3, 2020November 2, 2020Oxford Primary 1 Comment

A recent webinar with Mike Askew explored the connection between reasoning, problem solving and fluency. This blog post summaries the key takeaways from this webinar.

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Developing diverse classroom conversation

February 3, 2020February 3, 2020Oxford Primary 1 Comment
Primary school children sharing cookies in a maths lesson

By Mike Askew Visiting a school once to observe a maths lesson, I arrived just before the end of the previous literacy lesson. The class had just read a chapter of a book and were engaged in a lively conversation about a character’s motivation. The teacher skillfully orchestrated the children, helping them to articulate their […]

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Ofsted Myth-Busting: Maths

January 24, 2020January 24, 2020Oxford Primary
Ofsted: Maths

Changes to the new Ofsted Inspection Framework may have left you wondering what a new Ofsted inspection focusing on maths might involve, and how best to prepare. That’s where we can help you.

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Building the Maths house: Singapore’s curriculum framework

March 29, 2018March 29, 2018Oxford Maths

I thought I’d write today about the framework of Singapore’s School Mathematics Curriculum.  The framework is captured in a well-known diagram that I’ve attached above, and it provoked a lot of interest among teachers when I was last in the UK in November.  This was great to see, because this diagram really is at the […]

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Practical science: why do we do it?

December 3, 2015March 7, 2016Oxford Science Team

Experimentation is the essence of learning science. Learning science without practical work is like learning literature without reading books. This has been the mantra for science teaching, in the UK at least, since universal science education began in the 1980s. But with school and college budgets reducing, practical work is under scrutiny as never before, […]

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