Welcome and introduction, from Complete Mathematics and Events Innovation Partner, AQA
Check out and taste test maths inspired cup cakes and cookies or why not join the Maths Mingle?
In this workshop we'll look at some fun maths from a Victorian textbook that goes slightly beyond our modern curriculum. This will expand your subject knowledge and give you ideas for how to challenge your highest achieving students. The main focus of this workshop will be surds and algebra.
We all know that feedback is a crucial part of learning. We also know that individualised, personal feedback is very time consuming. Whole class feedback can help, but sometimes there are simply issues with individuals that don't appear in the wider class. Here is where front-loading feedback can help. In this session we will explore what front-loading feedback looks like, and have a chance to design some tasks with front-loaded feedback in mind.
Do your students sometimes struggle to complete multistep processes? Do they start questions and forget how to finish them? Teaching backwards to secure success might be the answer you’re looking for! Teaching backwards is the big brother to backwards fading. It is an approach I have been using in several different schools with great success. This approach works really well for students in KS2 to KS5 and beyond! Come and explore how this methodology can secure success for your students and think about where you can use this in your teaching.
This session promises you the opportunity to do plenty of Maths and to deeply consider the models that we use to teach certain topics in our curricula.
Suitable for KS1 teachers up to KS4, come along to discover just how powerful these two questions are! (And yes, this description is mysterious, but if anything more is written, the big surprises of the session will be given away).
This times tables workshop moves beyond rote memorisation to mastery, helping children build deep understanding by connecting related multiplication facts. Using the Times Tables Stick, we’ll explore a structured, strategy-based approach that fosters fluency, confidence, and mathematical reasoning. You’ll leave with practical techniques to support all learners in developing mastery and mathematical oracy.
There are only 14 different calendars - each one begins with one of seven different days of the week, and each one can optionally be a Leap Year. Using Modular Arithmetic and the Doomsday Algorithm of John Conway, this session will familiarise you with the way our calendar works. We will find out about the change from the Julian to the Gregorian Calendar, the riots over the extraordinary calendar for September 1752, the reason the Tax Year begins on 6th April, and a method for naming the correct day of the week for any given date, past, present or future.
Finding the right course for learners is often tricky, even trickier for pupils who are often disengaged, demotivated and battling resits. The session will explore an alternative course for KS4 pupils to enable a positive and successful experience within maths which runs alongside GCSE. The qualification in particular will support learners with identified skills gaps in Maths and can be used to support progression. Come and see what we have learnt from delivering the course at both Level 1 and 2 along with the changes in pupils' perception to maths following their success, and how we make this work within our curriculum.
It's a MathsConf tradition for delegates arriving on Friday to meet up locally to catch up with the community, network and talk all things mathematics.
Please meet us at 7pm at the Premier Inn Birmingham Oldbury, B69 2BH. If you’re attending alone or are new and feeling a bit nervous, call +44 (0)20 8144 4748 so one of our team can welcome you and introduce you to the community.
As with all our conferences, we are eager to seize this fantastic opportunity to support a worthy cause. We will be running a raffle where you could win a selection of mathematical prizes, with all proceeds going to Macmillan Cancer Support.
Rob's Tuckshop is also back, offering a delightful assortment of sweet treats and drinks while raising funds for Macmillan. More than just a place for refreshments, the tuckshop serves as your social hub—an opportunity to network and unwind between sessions while indulging in a nostalgic selection of sweets, including favourites like white mice, rainbow belts, and fizzy cola bottles.
If you’d like to donate a prize to our raffle, please email us at events@completemaths.com
Maths Cake Competition is back—but with a Pi(e) Day twist! Since Friday 14th March is all about celebrating Pi (π) Day, we're shaking things up. This time, it’s your chance to show off your cupcake and cookie skills! Whether you’re crafting a π-shaped cookie, decorating maths-themed cupcakes, or getting creative with numbers and symbols, we can’t wait to see your delicious designs.
Don’t forget to share a picture on socials, of your own masterpiece before it’s gone—we know how tempting they are! We'd love for you to tag us @lasalleed on X, @lasalleed.bsky.social on Bluesky!
Throughout the day you will have a collection of mathematical questions that you need to find and solve, with each question labelled with a greek letter. Solve the questions, and using our cipher, convert the greek letters to give you a mathematical word. If you get the correct word, you will be entered into a prize draw and be in with a chance of winning an Amazon Fire Tablet.