Discover some of the most surprising and unexpected uses of virtual manipulatives: from “pentomino reptiles” to prime numbers or non-periodic tessellations.

We will be using number and fraction bars, algebra tiles, pattern blocks, construction tools, tangram, and more – and you can follow along in real time. Presented by the creator of Polypad, which has been used by millions of students all around the world.

Speaking of artistic license:

Making Friends with Numbers

Questions like, “What are numbers?” have tormented philosophers for millennia, and yet this is also where the youngest children begin their journey in mathematics. As a result, teaching and learning early number is a surprisingly complex business, and one that all teachers of mathematics should understand in detail.

Full of practical ideas, this session will explain how children develop a sense of number and how teachers can ensure that their students have a positive relationship with mathematics from the very beginning of school.

An insight into how I finally began to understand the steps required to teach effective fraction lessons, (including some of the representations and activities I used).

This session will explore how to take the theory of curriculum design and implement it in practice. The session will pay particular focus on the key role tasks play in the design of an effective curriculum in early secondary.

The session will also examine the role tasks play in helping to develop consistent approaches in a large department, while ensuring all pupils are given the opportunity to develop fluency, understanding and mathematical habits of mind.

This virtual workshop is an introduction to the most versatile, visual, concrete manipulative that will change the way you feel about using the CPA approach in KS1 and KS2. This 50 minute session will transform the way you teach the basic number sense.

You will be shocked and amazed at how this one tool can be the mess-free (COVID friendly) answer to children developing a deeper understanding of so many concepts. Join in on the rekenrek workshop and you too will be singing the praises of this simple tool.

True mastery of any subject, particularly one as beautifully complex as mathematics, is borne of attention to detail, diligent preparation and a ton of elbow grease. Before a single child can realise our aspirations for them, we, as school leaders and teachers, must first be prepared to dedicate ourselves to laying the foundations so crucial for later success. This is particularly complex in primary schools, where subject generalists are the norm and teachers frequently lack confidence in teaching the subject.

In this session Kieran Mackle and Tom Garry will explore how we can prepare our teachers and schools to ensure that every child can achieve in mathematics, ensuring that the subject’s beauty is there for all to behold, without exception.

In this workshop we will look at a variety of wonderful maths story books and consider how we could use them in the primary classroom to teach maths. From EYFS to Year 6, there will be something for everyone! Come along and get lost in a book.

Everyone knows what a square is!

How much maths can you make from our understanding of a square?

This workshop looks at some tasks that involve squares and how much maths you can pack into tasks involving squares, including, amongst others... HCF and LCM, orders of operations, expressions and equations, quadratics, surds, ratio and proportion, sequences, similarity and much more!

When maths teachers were surveyed to find out what topic they most enjoy teaching, quadratics came out top. It's no surprise that it's so popular. This wonderful topic is full of beautifully interconnected ideas. It takes us on a journey from the fundamentals of algebraic manipulation and graphical representations, right through to the complexities of calculus and optimisation.

In this workshop we will discuss some pedagogical ideas. We will consider how we can begin to deepen our students' understanding of quadratics throughout our teaching.

Circle theorems are much maligned (by teachers as well as students!). This is also, objectively* the best topic there is. (* well – maybe not ‘objectively’).

In this session we will explore some of the fundamental ideas behind circle theorems and some of the more esoteric things that crop up. We’ll look at why they are the best thing (arguably) about GCSE mathematics, and what we can do to help our students to show them a little love.

Equality is one of the most fundamental concepts in mathematics. This workshop will look at the equals sign, equality, equations, functions, inverse functions and other related ideas. Along with some Arabic terms from Al Khwarizmi's text.

The use of Cuisenaire rods and pictorial representations to help pupils understand the process of solving equations will also be shown. Hopefully giving you some tried and tested ideas to implement in your teaching.

In designing a primary mathematics curriculum, I decided to 'farm out' all the statistics objectives to other subjects. They belonged in Science, in Geography and not in my precious maths time. Then I changed my mind.

Join me as I share why I think statistics in primary maths is vital for development in myriad concepts and have some great ideas to take away too.

Early years educators know how much rich, natural mathematics can arise from children’s play with tyres, various sized blocks, jigsaws and shape resources. Research is now clear that it is young children’s spatial, rather than their numerical facilities, that predicts their later overall mathematics achievement.

Helen's session will present this research, relating this to examples of practice with our youngest learners. Come with some Duplo or Lego bricks!

Estimation gives us insight into students’ mathematical skills and problem solving. It’s more than just a wild guess.

Teaching students estimation skills helps build practical ways of working with mathematical situations.

Have you heard these before…”Why estimate when I can count? Why estimate when I can just measure?” BUT - we estimate all the time in our daily lives. -To determine if our answers are reasonable -To calculate more quickly -To understand when we need to estimate to make our lives easier

This workshop will explore active ways to engage primary students in meaningful estimation situations to build confidence and flexible ways of thinking.

“Estimation is a high-level skill that requires students to be able to conceptualize and mentally manipulate numbers”. (Van de Walle)

Do you believe in the power of maths visuals to increase access and understanding in your class? Have you considered the ways visuals might limit student’s thinking, rather than unleash it?

Come discuss the ways visuals can build from student’s natural problem solving strategies and how to avoid undermining student efficacy.

This workshop explores a range of open-ended tasks aimed to be accessible to pupils with a range of prior experiences in Mathematics. Planning tasks that are low entry, high ceiling can be challenging but can allow more pupils to engage in the learning experience.

This session will provide real-life tasks that can be adapted for use in both primary and secondary mathematics classrooms.

Using variation and multiple reorientations to ask better questions. With a focus on quality over quantity, this session looks practical ways we can ask better questions by:

1. Varying the conditions of a problem.
2. Varying the method of solving the problem.
3. Varying the problems a method is being applied to.

As you might expect, a wide range of manipulatives will be used throughout to help make sense of the problems we explore and highlight connections to other areas of mathematics.

This session is another chance to look at some pedagogy, maths curriculum and run through some more topics for which Autograph can be particularly effective.

Robert Smith and Douglas Butler have successfully delivered the online webinar courses for beginners, intermediate and advanced users of Autograph and will bring a flavour of the potential Autograph can have in the classroom. The courses have been recorded and are now all available online in the Complete Mathematics Teacher CPD courses.

Further thanks to La Salle Education, who have made the desktop version of Autograph free to download, and can be installed on your school computer, home computer, and across the school network.

There is often mention that Autograph is only for secondary and post 16 teachers, so Rob and Doug will be sure to include areas of the primary curriculum that can be taught using Autograph. We hope to see you at the session: The 1, 2, 3 of Autograph