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We are working in collaboration with Cambridge University Press to offer free CPD training* designed to support teachers with the transition to the new GCSE Mathematics specifications for first teaching from 2015.
Sessions will be delivered over a pair of linked days with participants required to attend both days
Cambridge: 25 June 2015 and 9 July 2015
*These free CPD days are only open to schools who commit to a full school adoption of the Cambridge University Press new GCSE Mathematics Resources.
Information and details of how to apply are on the Cambridge University Press website.
Angle Measurement: an Opportunity for Equity
Paul Andrews attempts to establish a principle of worthwhile mathematical activity for all pupils.
Models for Teaching Mathematics
Alan Wigley questions whether it is the job of the teacher to make learning easy for students.
Delegates to bring laptops/tablets to sessions if possible.
09.30 Registration
10.00 Opening Plenary: Setting the scene
10.15 Session 1: Finding all solutions, working backwards
Isosceles Triangles
Unequal Averages
Opposite Vertices (dotty grids available to print on Resources page)
11.40 Break
11.50 Session 2: Generalising and looking for alternative approaches
Generalising
Wipeout (Extension activity)
Pair Products (and Finding Factors)
Home learning: Factorising with Multilink
Looking for alternative approaches
What's it Worth?
Warmsnug Double Glazing
Kite in a Square
Steel Cables
13.15 Lunch
14.00 Session 3: Raising aspirations
Power Countdown
How Old Am I?
14.45 Plenary: Trying things out
Tweaking routine problems
Making plans for the next fortnight
15.45 End
Models for Teaching Mathematics in which Alan Wigley questions whether it is the job of the teacher to make learning easy for students.
Factorising with Multilink
Tilted Squares problem and video
Product Sudoku
09.30 Registration
10.00 Opening Plenary: Generating questions
A set of pictures to provoke questions from Dan Meyer's photos 101questions
10.15 Session 1: Feedback from previous fortnight
The cartoon for the Sweet Shop problem is here, on the Teachers' Resources page for the problem.
Tweaking with Venn Diagrams
Audience Suggestions and Colourful Templates
Printable templates: Venn Diagrams (Full Colour), Venn Diagrams (Three Colour Lines)
These are now also available on the Resources Page.
11.40 Break
11.50 Session 2: Introducing new topics through rich tasks
Cyclic Quadrilaterals - downloadable circle templates available from Resources page
Introduce What's Possible?
Vector Journeys dotty grids available to print on Resources page
13.15 Lunch
14.00 Session 3: Generating discussion
Statistical Shorts
Speed-time Problems at the Olympics
Can you find...?
14.45 Plenary: Looking forward
Introducing the Mapping document and CMEP (now undergroundmathematics.org)
(Further information on CMEP and contact details can be found here)
Making plans for the future: Enriching the Secondary Curriculum
Factors and Multiples Game - 100 squares available to print on Resources page
15.45 End