Teaching Primary Maths

Participants explore what the New Primary Maths Curriculum (2023) asks of teachers, its five strands and five mathematical practices, and meet the Maths-Talk Leader mindset. They orient to the online learning platform and experience a maths lesson from the learner's seat, establishing a baseline of confidence and their first portfolio entries.

Participants learn the Concrete–Pictorial–Abstract progression and how the platform's interactive activities make the pictorial stage live on the interactive whiteboard. They master display, explore, and challenge mode, and practise narrating an interactive and running a class challenge so the whole class reasons together.

Participants build the craft of mathematical talk, the practice that most changes a maths classroom. They learn why talk matters, the core talk moves (wait time, revoicing, justify, compare), build a bank of reasoning prompts, and learn to run the display-only maths-talk wrap that closes most lessons.

Participants put the whole lesson together. They walk the anatomy of the 50-minute dual-surface lesson, learn the copybook moment as a whole-class write beat, see how the Activity Book is worked during class time, and learn to pivot mid-lesson using the Configure controls or a hands-on materials task.

Participants bring the course together into sustainable practice. They learn to differentiate within a single low-threshold/high-ceiling task and across the Activity Book tiers, to gather formative evidence from talk and challenge, and to plan by module and strand for whole-school consistency through the School Self-Evaluation process.