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Maths Education Innovation Network resources

The Maths Education Innovation Network brings together teachers, maths leads, ITE colleagues, and researchers to explore relevant and prevalent issues linked to the teaching and learning of mathematics in primary, secondary and post-16 settings.

By working together in this way, we investigate how research is particularised into practice (‘particularising theory’), and also how practice can inform research (‘theorising practice’).

Each network session includes an input on a research or theoretical idea, followed by inputs from classroom practitioners explaining how they put this idea into action in their local classroom contexts. 

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Network sessions and resources
Date of event TitleResources 
20 March 2024 

What does it really mean to teach for conceptual understanding?

 

Research input

Various research on conceptual understanding, with a specific focus on the ‘Strands of Mathematical Proficiency’.

Primary teacher input

Ruth Spencer (Lowe's Wong Anglican Methodist Junior School) highlights the importance of visual representations for primary children, with loads of practical examples.

Secondary teacher input

Alex O’Connell (Friesland School) highlights the importance of task design that provides opportunities for students to reason, discuss ideas, critique methods, and conjecture. Lots of fantastic and practical ideas.

5 June 2024 Using AI to support Mathematics teaching – affordances and limitations

Research input

Resources from Lucy Rycroft Smith and Darren Macey (Cambridge Maths)

Primary Teacher input

Sean Kavanagh (Year 5 teacher at Heatherley Primary School) talked about AI in education.

Secondary teacher input

Katarina Telamitsi (Secondary Maths Teacher at Nottingham Girls Academy) presented on the use of AI in planning. 

 

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