Time: 10.00 - 15.30
Venue: University of Cambridge, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge CB3 0WA
Celebrate the end of your first year of teaching by joining us for a maths-filled professional development day with the NRICH team.
Join the NRICH team in Cambridge for a free professional development day designed to support NQTs in nurturing confident, resourceful and creative mathematical problem-solvers in their classrooms.
As a result of attending this full-day CPD event you will also have a better understanding of how to use rich tasks to support the aims of the new National Curriculum: fluency, reasoning and problem solving.
About the day: The day will be highly interactive with a mix of plenary speaker sessions and workshops.
We will:
- explore what is meant by rich tasks that support creative problem solving
- understand how to embed them in the mathematics lesson
- become familiar with the extensive resources being made available by the NRICH team
- discuss and debate effective practice with other teachers
Outline of the day:
9.30 - 10.00 Registration and coffee
10.00 - 10.30 Mastering Mathematics - the NRICH perspective
10.30 - 12.15 Workshop 1: Inspiring reasoning through rich tasks
12.15 - 13.00 Lunch
13.00 - 14.45 Workshop 2: Engaging all learners through problem solving
14.45 - 15.30 Talk by David Spiegelhalter on "Things to do with chance"
15.30 Close
Resources introduced on the day:
Five strands of mathematical proficiency
National Research Council (2001) - Adding it up: Helping children learn mathematics:
Chapter 4: The strands of mathematical proficiency.
Chapter 9: Teaching for mathematical proficiency.
Forwards add Backwards
Early Years and Key Stage 1 resources
Key Stage 2 resources
David Spiegelhalter's slides and his Understanding Uncertainty website.
Cost: FREE. Thanks to the generous support of the Templeton World Charity Foundation, we are able to offer free places to teachers from UK schools. Lunch, tea and coffee will be provided without charge for all delegates. (Please note that, at our discretion, a cancellation charge of £95 will be incurred in the event of non-attendance on the day, or cancellation by Friday 19 June
2015)
How to book: Online booking is now closed. Schools may send a maximum of two delegates. Places are limited: early booking is advised. Permission to attend must be obtained from your Head/SMT before booking a place.