I am very much aware that I have made public promised to livestream – answering questions in real time – if my RebeccaTheMathsLady YouTube channel achieved 1000 subscribers. This has now happened – much more quickly than I dreamed possible. I will keep my promise to livestream – soon. I’m keen to do this to…
Created in response to lockdown, The Inquiry Educators Summit was designed to offer a powerful professional development experience to locked down educators all over the world. The organisers made a list of their most desired international speakers, asked them and they all agreed to speak – for free. It was a huge privilege and joy…
I’m delighted to have been invited to run the workshop on the future of primary mathematics at this globally leading education inquiry conference: https://www.toddleapp.com/ties/ Please can you help me prepare for this workshop? Can you write a description of what’s going on in primary maths education in your country (or any other region or education…
My second series on primary maths for parents will launch next Monday 27 April 2020. This series of 20 short videos will explain the core number topics children usually study between the ages of 7 and 9 to parents and will help them know how to communicate with their child no matter what maths strategy…
Authentic Maths has always existed to support all the adults who work with children on their primary maths. 5 months into an 18 month project to share teacher training for the whole primary curriculum, there are suddenly no teachers in a position to deliver the kind of expert teaching recommended in the training. Meanwhile there…
This Thursday I published the final video in my series on teaching maths for year 1 teachers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7DwWeyF_34 My plan had always been to launch my YouTube channel once this series was complete. Feedback on the videos had been excellent and my channel had picked up 400 regular subscribers and over 18,000 views with no…
Authentic Maths exists to provide support for primary school teachers to help them become expert maths teachers. Teachers and schools are under extreme pressure to follow detailed pre-written stepwise schemes of work. Expert maths teachers do not need these schemes – they are able to work directly from the national curriculum. Although some expert teachers may…
I’ve often written about the challenges associated with teaching maths to children who are only 4 years old (that most countries teach when they are 7). These include lack of short-term memory (to manipulate information), lack of long-term memory (to retain information) and lack of foundational skills (such as having an understanding of what number…
The core series which explains the essence of the maths children need to learn in reception class is now complete and available to view on YouTube here. This series makes no judgement on how teachers should teach (whether they should facilitate independent learning through continuous provision, whether learning should be teacher directed, whether it should…
Authentic Maths term-per-page maths planning guides are now all available for free download in the Expert Primary Maths Teachers Facebook group. Guides are available for Reception, Y1, Y2, Y3, Y4, Y5, Y6, mixed Y1/2, mixed Y3/4 and mixed Y5/6