Strengthen understanding and confidence in a key area of the KS3 maths curriculum.

This opportunity focuses on supporting students to develop a deep and connected understanding of multiplicative reasoning which is a significant portion of the GCSE Maths curriculum.
Working in a professional learning community, teachers will explore effective ways to teach multiplicative reasoning, share strategies and use carefully designed classroom resources and guidance materials to improve their teaching.

What are the benefits of this programme?

• You will strengthen students’ reasoning, fluency and confidence with multiplicative reasoning.
  
• You will explore key structures and strategies for teaching multiplicative reasoning across KS3.
  
• You will work with colleagues to plan and reflect on coherent, high-quality lessons.
  
• You will improve understanding of how to support all students to think and communicate mathematically.
  
• You will have access to high-quality classroom resources and guidance to ensure secure foundations for GCSE study which will allow for rapid progress.

What is involved?

Participants will attend the equivalent of three full days of workshops, and will complete school-based tasks between sessions. Workshops will be a blend of national and local sessions, and online and in-person provision.

Schools will receive resources and guidance materials designed to support effective teaching of Multiplicative Reasoning.

Who can take part?

The intended participants nominated by their schools are teachers working with KS3 students who want to improve their own practice and begin to develop the practice of other teachers within their department. A pair of participant teachers from each school will join a Work Group; the pair should comprise at least one experienced teacher. This is to support with embedding and fidelity of the resources use throughout the department over the longer term.

Our Securing Foundations at Year 7 Work Group fully complements this programme allowing students to develop a deep and connected understanding of the maths they are learning, be successful and thrive!

To sign up for our Developing Fluency with Multiplicative Reasoning at KS3 Work Group, please fill in the short form at the bottom of this page.

If you would like to find out more about our Securing Foundations at Year 7 Work Group too, please click here!

Helen Granger, Assistant Director for Secondary, talks about the importance of mathematical fluency and what it really means in the secondary maths classroom.

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