A gentle reminder that many colleagues and pupils may not have had a lovely Christmas.
It might have been awful.
They may be very happy to be back where it feels safe, or where there's routine, or where there's company.
They may be dreading the question 'what did you do then' or 'what did you get?'.

Director of Maths, Oldham - Tes Jobs The Brian Clarke Church of England Academy, United Kingdom

🌟An exciting opportunity to lead and shape the future of a wonderful department in an incredible school. Part of extended leadership and a developmental role for those who want to progress too. DM for any queries. #DirectorOfMaths

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An Unwelcome Divide: Curriculum and Teaching I remember a time, not so very long ago, when it would have been highly unusual in most English schools for a lesson observer to pay much attention at all to the content being taught. It was very r…

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Why Ofsted should not separate teaching from curriculum
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People of Maths Bluesky, a question for you:

What are your top 3 pictorial/visual models?

Answer either in a reply or quote, please also mention your setting. Feel free to make a whole thread with your reasons, should you wish!

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To be honest it was hard to pick 3. Number lines would be up there too

I'd argue no. 1 is equally visual, in fact I use them more as a diagram to support e.g. simplifying (not necessarily drawing the specific algebra tile shapes but 'counters' labelled with variables.

Secondary: 1. Algebra tiles (including two colour counters in this as they're essentially the same) 2. Area model for multiplication and linking in to algebra/distributive law 3. Ratio tables for anything with a multiplicative relationship

No, we've got a high proportion of EAL and not encountered an issue. We teach the word with the place value table first

We use 'exchange' which most students have used at KS2. Thorough knowledge of place value feeding into the algorithm.

"Good teaching is really hard." So true and a great blog on SEND.

How to do disciplinary literacy? How pupils read, write, talk, and the vocabulary they use in every classroom is specialist and unique. There are general words and literacy strategies to deploy, but as pupils move up through school, ...

‘How to do disciplinary literacy?’

“Done well, and done collaboratively, disciplinary literacy can offer pupils a set of tools to crack open the curriculum.”

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Do your pupils work hard enough? Let's indulge in two thought experiments. Scenario 1. Imagine you have no data about a class you start to teach in September. You have no knowledge about their prior attainment and no knowledge about ...

*NEW blog* Do your pupils work hard enough?

Inspired by discussions on Bluesky earlier.

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Hi Louise! I'm not a local but started working in Oldham 2 years ago at Brian Clarke Academy, a new free school. Wonderful community in Oldham!

Please can I be added, thanks!