Teacher webinars for the PTI 

This online course offered teachers an opportunity to reflect on how to teach Maths in an engaging, connected and enriching way https://nrich.maths.org/enriching 

 

We explored how tasks from the NRICH Secondary Curriculum mapping document can be used to develop students' reasoning and problem solving skills while offering opportunities to build fluency through purposeful practice https://nrich.maths.org/secondary-curriculum

 

June 2020:

Factors, Multiples and Primes using rich tasks

Tasks featured:

Dozens, Factors and Multiples Game, Counting Factors

 

December 2020:

Averages using rich tasks

Tasks featured:

M, M and M, Unequal Averages, For Richer for Poorer, Wipeout

 

March 2021:

Patterns and Sequences using rich tasks

Tasks featured:

Seven Squares, Steel Cables, Marbles in a Box, Shifting Times Tables, Charlie's Delightful Machine

 

June 2021:

Geometrical Reasoning using rich tasks

Tasks featured:

Polygon Rings, Cyclic Quadrilaterals, Kite in a Square, Quad in Quad and Alison’s Geogebra interactivity  

Also mentioned Tilted Squares

 

December 2021:

Teaching Fractions using rich tasks

Tasks featured:

Peaches Today, Peaches Tomorrow..., Keep it Simple, Egyptian Fractions, Almost One, Terminating or Not

 

March 2022:

Perimeter and Area using rich tasks

Tasks featured:

Perimeter Possibilities, Changing Areas, Changing Perimeters, Growing Rectangles, Perimeter Challenge, Shear Magic

 

June 2022:

Probability using rich tasks

Tasks featured:

In the Bag, Odds and Evens, Last One Standing, Same Number!

 

November 2022:

Place Value and Rounding

Tasks featured:

Dicey Operations, More Less is More - dice and spinners, Add to 200, Place your orders, Subtraction surprise, Number lines in disguise

 

February 2023:

Functions and Graphs

Tasks featured:

Route to Infinity, Reflecting Lines, Translating Lines, Diamond Collector, Parabolic Patterns

 

June 2023:

3-Dimensional Thinking

Tasks featured:

Cuboid Challenge, Boxed In, Changing Area, Changing Volumes, 3D Treasure Hunt

 

November 2023:

Ratio, proportion and rates of change

Tasks featured (see nrich.maths.org/ptiratio):

Mixing Lemonade, Warmsnug Double Glazing, Flapjack, Fruit Basket Ratio, Printer Ink, Don’t be late, Leg it, Late for Work, Temperature

 

March 2024:

Creating and manipulating linear and quadratic expressions

Tasks featured:

Perimeter Expressions, Summing Consecutive Numbers, Pair Products 

Related short problems Starting Fibonacci, Big Fibonacci, Little Difference

 

June 2024:

Coordinates and Vectors

Tasks featured:

Isosceles Triangles, Route to Infinity, Opposite Vertices, Square Coordinates, Vector Journeys, Tilted Squares and video of a lesson using Tilted Squares